DOIs for Research Software: Increasing Visibility, Connectivity, Citability

Research software are vital outputs of the research endeavour. They are often integral to the generation of research data, and rely on the same technical and social infrastructure to disseminate, cultivate, and coordinate activities. While adherence of research software to the ideals of openness and FAIRness should be per se intellegitur, only recently have efforts been started to ensure they are afforded the same long-term preservation and stewardship as other research outputs. However, research software engineers are yet to view making their software FAIR and Open as normative and in their interests. The value of adding PIDs to research software to expose both citation metrics and their interconnections with other research entities is expected to increase researcher buy-in and drive change.

00:00 Introduction – Gabi Mejias (Community & Program Manager, DataCite)

01:09 Software as a first class output in the scholarly ecosystem – Morane Gruenpeter (Software Engineer and Project Manager, Software Heritage, Inria), slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7964043

21:34 DOIs for Research Software: Increasing Visibility, Connectivity, Citability – Gabi Mejias (Community & Program Manager, DataCite), slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7985199

36:32 Software citation behind the curtain – Lars Holm Nielsen (Head of Open Science Repositories, CERN), slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7965724

49:56 HERMES: Automating software publication with rich metadata – Stephan Druskat (Doctoral Researcher, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute for Software Technology), slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7963967

1:14:38 Q&A session