Second thoughts on Proper Citation Guidance for Software Developers

This resource first appeared in issue #1 on 10 Jan 2020 and has tags Technical Leadership: Software Development, Working With A Research Community: Credit

A good recent blog post on the pros and cons of different approaches to software citation by Daniel S. Katz, who’s thought about this a lot. Some key points: any method is going to take extra work by someone; there may not be a one-size-fits all approach; and in the end, code just isn’t the same as a paper (amongst other things, there’s no one point at which it’s done). Daniel ends the post leaning tentatively towards recommending Software Heritage IDs.