Dear Peter, Helli, All, On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:41 PM, "Peter Löwe" <peter.lo...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Dear PSC, > > I would like to propose two topics for discussion by the board: > > a) Option to migrate to a git/gog-based repository. This proposal is being > forwarded from Helli (cc), based on the current successful migration by the > Postgis project ( https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2016- > October/025981.html), to ensure that the developers can use a state of > the art repository. > I'm in favor, provided that a volunteer is found for migrating the history and repository. In the case of Postgis, as far as I understand, strk took care of that. > > b) Option to use persistent identifiers (Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)) > for software, documentation and data in the GRASS project. DOI are > currently mostly known to reference and cite scientific articles ("like a > ISBN number for books"). DOI can also be assigned to scientific data, > including software. The benefit in doing this is providing scientific > citability, which implies scientific credit and recognition for the authors > of the software or data. DOI for software/data are provided/minted by the > DataCite non profit organisation (https://www.datacite.org/ > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataCite). OSGeo, being a non profit > organisation itself with significant IT infrastructure, could apply to > DataCite to receive DOI (has already been positively checked by the > DataCite folks). However, this requires a need within the OSGeo projects to > use DOI. I believe this could be a great driver to foster the authoring and > publication of add-on modules for GRASS, for which the authors could be > credited via a DOI upon "publication" within the GRASS community. FWIW, DOI > are already assigned to all OSGeo (and GRASS!)-related FOSS4G conference > videos in the TIB AV-Portal. Example: http://dx.doi.org/10.5446/20425 > (DOI also serve as "unbreakable" weblinks.) > Good idea. Any opinion from the others? Thanks for the proposals Regards, -- Margherita Di Leo
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