Hi again Joenio, In your original post, you asked on how to cite "the Debian project as a whole". But what do you mean by that? The Debian project is an informal group of people and Debian is used to refer to the Operating System. (And it's not a legal entity.) What is your usecase? Are you actually trying to refer to some specific product shipped by the Debian project?
Bye! Joost On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 07:13:41PM +0200, Joenio Marques da Costa wrote: > Hi Joost, > > Thanks for your answer. > > Citing an "Operating System" is in fact something that I'm not sure > how to proceed. > > But software is something we could cite, and in fact there > is a movement inside the academic field to give more visibility > and to recognize the work of software authors. > > In the last few years some initiatives were created to improve the > quality of software citation, one example is the CITATION File Format > (CFF)[1], it provides citation metadata for software or datasets. > > Another example is the CodeMeta Project[2], but those 2 examples are > mainly designed for software projects created with academic purpose > in mind, what is not the case of Debian, however I don't think it > hurts to bring those into Debian, if possible. > > [1] https://citation-file-format.github.io > [2] https://codemeta.github.io > > Best, > > Le 18/09/2024 à 17:43, Joost van Baal-Ilić a écrit : > > Hi Joenio, > > > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 04:49:27PM +0200, Joenio Marques da Costa wrote: > > > > > > Do we have any documentation with recommendation on how to > > > properly cite Debian in an academic work? > > > > > > By citing Debian I mean a citation to the Debian project > > > as a whole rather then citing a specific package inside Debian. > > > > > > When I search on Google Scholar for the string below. > > > > > > "Debian Operating System" > > > > > > I can find some results, such as [1] and [2], that could be > > > used to cite "Debian - The Operating System" but I'm not sure > > > it would be the best approach. > > > > > > Do you have any recommendation or references where can I find > > > more info about this topic? > > > > > > [1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/223198 > > > [2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/1212556 > > > > I think scientific citations refer to texts / books / articles, not to > > software > > collections? So The Debian Operating System we ship is not a publication > > which > > could be cited? > > > > My € 0,02. > > > > Bye, > > > > Joost > > > > -- > Joenio Marques da Costa > Research Software Engineer > http://umr-lisis.fr/membre/joenio > GPG: 9B2D 64BF 843D 6DC1 D8C1 752C 2E31 D3FD E6D0 8FF4 >
