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(JSON-LD) Metadata for software discovery

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Following up on our [blog post here](http://mozillascience.org/code-as-a-research-object-metadata-for-software-discovery/) I'd love to hear your thoughts on the idea of using JSON-LD as a lightweight metadata format for describing scientific software. Some questions...

arfon

How should software be cited?

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Here's an example of a software citation. Does it include all the appropriate information, and can it be improved? When a snapshot of the code has been archived somewhere, how...

hubgit

The "Download ZIP" button that the "Get a DOI" was inserted next to has moved, so the selector needs to be updated. Reported by @JJ

hubgit

What makes code a research object?

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Following on from [this twitter discussion](https://twitter.com/blahah404/status/645893930681245696), I figure this is a better place to ask. I'm interested in what makes some bundle of code become a research object? It seems...

blahah

Want to help us test? Add your info here.

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We're looking for publishers and researchers to help us test new ways of giving credit to code. Want to help? Add your info here.

kaythaney

Read author information from a file in the repository

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This is in conjunction with issue #4 and also related to issue #6. It is a really good idea to fetch the names automatically from GitHub (see issue #4), but...

armish

What is needed to reuse data?

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This topic is closely related to #2. In the context of figit and other tools, what would we ask for authors to put in a repo to get packaged up...

codersquid

What information is needed to reuse code?

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(For more, see the full post on the blog: http://mozillascience.org/what-else-is-needed-for-code-reuse/) When we first started discussions around our latest "Code as a research object" project, one of the main topics that...

kaythaney

Read information from language-specific package description files

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See the wiki for [a summary of the main package description formats](https://github.com/mozillascience/code-research-object/wiki/Package-Description-Formats). If a package description file already exists in the repository, read information from there. Examples: package.json (node), bower.json...

hubgit

Allow selecting specific tags/revisions/branches from the corresponding repository

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Currently, by default, the submission system does not distinguish between branches, tags or revisions of a project that is to be submitted to FigShare. Most development teams take advantage of...

armish