[Esip-citationguidelines] Fwd: More actionable news from Software Heritage

Tue Sep 24 13:32:41 EDT 2019

That’s a funny autocorrect. I meant to ask if we should invite Roberto to give a *presentation*. :-)

-m.

On 24 Sep 2019, at 11:26, Parsons, Mark via Esip-citationguidelines <esip-citationguidelines at lists.esipfed.org<mailto:esip-citationguidelines at lists.esipfed.org>> wrote:

Hey folks,

There is some really good stuff in here. Note especially, the use of ‘intrinsic’ (i.e. content-based) identifiers and the focus on sw preservation and reusability. The Apollo blog is especially charming. You can actually play with Apolllo software.

I wonder if a preservation from Roberto to the cluster would be of interest? Alternatively a more-general presentation on Software Heritage might be of interest to the broader Stewardship Committee.

Thoughts?

cheers,

-m.

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From: Roberto Di Cosmo <roberto at dicosmo.org<mailto:roberto at dicosmo.org>>
Subject: More actionable news from Software Heritage
Date: 22 September 2019 at 07:52:47 MDT
To: "Parsons, Mark" <parsom3 at rpi.edu<mailto:parsom3 at rpi.edu>>
Cc: Roberto Di Cosmo <roberto at dicosmo.org<mailto:roberto at dicosmo.org>>

Dear Mark,
    I'm delighted to share some more actionable news from our work at Software Heritage.
We have now published a first version of actionable guidelines to seamlessly archive and reference research software, that you can find here:

  *   a blog post with a high level overview: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2019/08/05/saving-and-referencing-research-software-in-software-heritage/
  *   the full guidelines, with a running example and even LaTeX snippets: https://annex.softwareheritage.org/public/guidelines/archive-research-software.pdf

I'm sure you'll like the support for different granularities that is shown in the running example above, and that are also used in this Apollo 11 anniversary blog post https://www.softwareheritage.org/2019/07/20/archiving-and-referencing-the-apollo-source-code/

The unique functionalities that Software Heritage provides in support of Open Science are detailed in this blog post
https://www.softwareheritage.org/2019/09/05/software-heritage-for-open-science/

Finally, work is underway to connect Software Heritage with bleeding edge declarative package/configuration management systems, like Nix and GNU Guix, which pave the way for full binary rebuildability from sources over the very long term: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2019/04/18/software-heritage-and-gnu-guix-join-forces-to-enable-long-term-reproducibility/

I'm trying to see if I can come to RDA in Helsinki: are you going to be there? It would be nice to meet

All the best

--
Roberto

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Le mer. 17 juil. 2019 à 02:08, Parsons, Mark <parsom3 at rpi.edu<mailto:parsom3 at rpi.edu>> a écrit :
Hi Roberto,

You just received what you probably saw as an odd email out of the blue, but it would be great if you could come speak at the American Geophysical Union this December. This is probably not the sort of conference you normally attend, but I think you would enjoy it. There is a large informatics session with about 20 oral sessions, dozens of poster sessions, and multiple “E-Lightning” sessions that are like a poster session but with large screens for visualizations and the like. (The overall conference is huge).

I and colleagues are convening a session on “When to Cite a Research Object?” By asking “When” we hope to address issues like the granularity of the object cited, when to address issues of credit versus access, and when to use a content-based ID vs. an authority-based ID. I really enjoyed your recent paper "Identifiers for Digital Objects: The case of software source code preservation” and other work at INREA and would love to have you speak in our session.

Unfortunately, this is not a very generous invitation. No travel support or anything. All it really means is that your presentation will be highlighted in the program, and that you are allowed to submit another abstract as first author as well. I can’t even guarantee an oral presentation (it depends on how many abstracts will be submitted to our session).

Nonetheless, I hope you consider this invitation and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

cheers,

-m.

Mark A. Parsons
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