Add JOSS paper.

[vnmabus]

Describe the proposed changes

This adds a paper to the repo, so that we can submit it to JOSS.

@trossi I had to rewrite part of the text that I had, as it was for an older version (prior to pyOpenSci submission). It can probably (almost surely, I would say) be improved, in case you have suggestions to do so. Other things to take into account:

• Please review your author info. I tried to add your ORCID and affiliation, but it may be incorrect.
• Please add your acknowledgements (funding or whatever you need).
• Please feel free to add the work in which you used the library at the end of the "Statement of need" section.
• I left the section "Ongoing work" (name can be changed) for you to explain the changes you did.
• You can compile locally using the Docker they provide (https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/paper.html#docker). I also set up the Github action, to check the paper after you push (e.g. https://github.com/vnmabus/rdata/actions/runs/10648562090).

You can add your changes either as suggestions to this PR or as PRs against this branch.

[trossi]

I agree with all your suggestions. I commit them and will re-read the article to see if more improvements need to be made. I suggest you to do the same if/when you have time.

Thank you! I added the changes related to discussion on paper.bib. I re-read the article and I think it's in good state. I can have another look later this week.

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[vnmabus]

@trossi , I just sent the submission to JOSS.

[trossi]

@vnmabus Great! Thank you!

[vnmabus]

@trossi In case you need it for your CV: it seems that the article was fast-tracked... well, really fast 😅️: https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.07540

I will merge this and make the necessary edits in the repo in the following days.

[trossi]

@vnmabus Great, thank you!