DOI for each notebook (or notebook output)

[brechmos-stsci]

It would be very useful if we had a way to assign a DOI (e.g., using Zenodo) to, let's say, the processed HTML output of a notebook. This way the notebooks can be easily referenced in journal articles and the authors could get the appropriate attribution.

There are some questions that come up out of this:

• What should the DOI reference? I sort of am thinking the HTML output of the workbook, but maybe the actual notebook would make more sense (?)
• How could we reference "versions" of each notebook, can we make it so the DOI points to just "the current version" of a URL or github notebook?
• How could we advertise these DOI (in the notebook? in the README of the repo?)

Anyway, it might be a good way to give more legitimacy to the notebooks and enable easy referencing in papers.

cc @pllim @eteq

[pllim]

I asked on SWC mailing list. So far, there is one external response -- https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T30e063a442670936

[brechmos-stsci]

But that answer seems to be discussing a DOI for the repo (and versions of the repo) and not for each entry. Maybe I am mis-understanding the discussion in that link. A DOI for each entry was my original thought, but maybe that really is just too difficult.

[pllim]

You can ask for clarification in that thread. Please feel free to do so! In my limited understanding, I get the impression that making releases is the way to go.