Software Citation Workshop Results

Software is a copyrightable creative work that foundationally important to the future of scholarly research, yet software citation not ubiquitous. Despite increasing acceptance general principles (Smith et al. 2016), challenges exist make their implementation difficult. As result, metadata facilitate goes unrecorded, uncited (Bouquin 2020), and authors continue be divorced from contributions science human cultural heritage. If this status quo persists, will become increasingly difficult find, access, build upon, which prevent being “Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable” (FAIR) Digital Object in future. Addressing currently impact requires action communication ecosystem digital preservation landscape, along with cooperation users. This situation presents an opportunity enable for FAIR through by leveraging intersections between libraries archives, experts other disciplines advance theory practice. To achieve end, Harvard-Smithsonian Center Astrophysics (CfA) has partnered Institute Museum Library Services (IMLS) bring together stakeholders representing many forms labor expertise address specific questions about have so far gone unresolved, such as: How can we when part larger deposit content archival repository? adoption standards support repositories? above questions, Citation Workshop (SCW) was created. Although meeting organizers originally planned fully in-person meeting, constantly shifting pandemic landscape necessitated new approach. Instead one large SCW ‘22 started series three online focus groups. These groups were held June 28th 30th, 2022. The goal help better understand how various view problems associated availability repositories perceived barriers implementing standards. also helped identify these people think should prioritized addressing challenges, What your domain? incentives influence (e.g., policies, curatorial practices, user-generated information) From perspective, cite deposit? Jupyter notebooks deposited paper) could do available deposits? influences Are curators aware differences formats? (i.e., File Format (CFF) (Druskat 2022) vs. CodeMeta (Jones 2020)) different formats when/how use them? experiences been either? Should encouraging over other? In August 2022, workshop summarize answers given into expanded revised version Implementation Challenges (Katz 2019) document. In-person attendees encouraged brainstorm interventions tackle prioritize newly defined problems, lay out mutually supporting approaches them. Attendees synthesize plans deliverables shared widely. presentation aims promote determined introducing lessons learned outputs produced meetings. Through open collaboration feedback, introduce ways they ensure as Object.