Researchers / academics: I have a question for you. Would it be useful for Open MPI to publish Digital Object Identifier (DOI) or Research Resource Identifier (RRI) to identify releases?
Per articles like http://www.nature.com/news/the-unsung-heroes-of-scientific-software-1.19100, would it be helpful to publish a DOI / RRI for each Open MPI release? And/or nightly snapshot tarballs (e.g., if a paper used some results from a specific nightly tarball, or somesuch)? I.e., does creating+publishing a DOI/RRI need to be something that is part of the release process? ...or is the DOI effectively the git hash of the tag in ompi-release? More generally: are DOIs / RRIs helpful in citing specific software packages and/or versions in papers? If so, do we need to do anything to support them in Open MPI releases? (...since I left academia long ago, I admit to not paying too close attention to this kind of stuff, so forgive me if I'm asking nonsensical questions...) -- Jeff Squyres [email protected] For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
