Interesting paper about integrating software citation with Git

[sdruskat]

Just stumbled across this: Automating Software Citation using GitCite on arXiv.

The authors tackle software citation through citation functions (based on the CoreCover algorithm) on nodes in a version of the repository tree, and couple git operations with citation operations (add/delete/modify).

While the system doesn't seem to fix existing issues with, e.g., automated retrieval of correct metadata for authorship, it is certainly an interesting take on citation automation.

[katrinleinweber]

Am I missing the link to their code in the PDF, or did they not publish that?!? The "Source" on arXiv doesn't contain anything besides the TeX files. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/GitCite comes up empty as well as of Fri Jun 21 19:06:12 CEST 2019 🤷‍♀

[sdruskat]

They've eaten their own dog food and provide links to commits in a listing (Listing 1) of a citation.citefile, but no usable (with reagrds to the Principles) citations 😕 ...

The repositories in question are:

• CoreCover
• GUI

The actual implementations have can be cobbled together from the commit IDs and the repo URLs in the listing. Interesting approach, albeit not entirely in line with the Principles.

[katrinleinweber]

"GUI" is a 1 to 2 years-old Data Citation Demo, not the Chrome extension the paper seems to mention. Maybe @thuwuyinjun, @chenlica and/or @Yanssie can clarify? From where can I install GitCite and test it under real-world conditions?

[sdruskat]

According to the Listing, this commit is referenced as the GUI contribution: wuyinjun-1993/Data_citation_demo@2dd6813.

[katrinleinweber]

Yes, but apparently that's a different project, which they just happen to use as an example in the GitCite paper, or am I missing something? If not, this seems like another thing that's not providing any minimally useful example (#48).