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On Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 10:56 AM Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> wrote: > Hi, > see below. Do we want to do that ? I'm not seeing any obvious > disadvantage, but I've never worked with DOI before. If so, anyone who want > to take the lead on that ? > > Even > > -------- Message transféré -------- > Sujet : DOI for the GDAL project / Springer Handbook of Geoinformatics > Date : Wed, 12 Jan 2022 17:23:40 +0100 > De : Peter Löwe <peter.lo...@gmx.de> <peter.lo...@gmx.de> > Pour : even.roua...@spatialys.com > > Hello Even, > > I'm writing to you as OSgeo Vice President for GDAL concerning an > opportunity for the GDAL project. Could you please forward the following > message to the GDAL PSC - or please tell me about a better way to contact > the PSC directly ? > > Dear GDAL Project Steering Committee, > > I'm reaching out to you because of an opportunity for the PROJ community, > which surfaced recently: > The upcoming second edition of the Springer Handbook of Geoinformatics > will cover the GDAL project. The Handbook project has been delayed due to > the Pandemic, but will be completed in a few weeks. I am serving as the > editor of the Handbook chapter about Open Source Geoinformatics. > > Recently, new workflows for scientific citation of software projects have > emerged and are becoming state of the art. This includes references by > persistent digital object identifiers (DOI) to software projects instead of > URLs. DOI-based references allow to give due credit to the whole project > team, including first authors, developers, but also maintainers and people > in other roles. > > The OSGeo projects GRASS GIS, GMT, MapServer, MOSS and rasdaman have > already registered their own DOI, OSGeoLive, pygeoapi and pycsw will follow > soon. > As an example, this is the DOI for GRASS GIS: > https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5810537 > Hands on information how to register a DOI for a OSGeo project are > available here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Persistent_identifiers(pid). > > The Editors of the Springer Handbook agree that including DOI references > for Open Source projects is a win-win-scenario for the upcoming book and > also the OSGeo project communities. They have extended the production > deadline until January 20 to give additional software projects the > opportunity to register a DOI to be included in the book chapter. > > If the GDAL project reserves or registers a DOI (takes only a few minutes) > before the deadline of January 20, I would gladly include it in the Open > Source Geoinformatics chapter reference section. > > > Please let me know if you have any questions. > > Best, > Peter > > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Peter_Loewe > > <peter.lo...@gmx.de> <peter.lo...@gmx.de> > > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >
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