Hello GDAL community, this is an update and preliminary summary about references to the GDAL project (and developer community) within scientific publications since 2022.
In 2022, a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) was registered for the GDAL project. Since then (version 3.5.1), each new release of GDAL receives a DOI an is being long term preserved in the scientific Open Access Repository Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5884351), which is connected the DOI registration process. The DOI infrastructure allows to reference either the GDAL project as a whole or a particular GDAL version in scientific literature. The GDAL project has become an early adopter regarding DOI use within OSGeo. While there are still sometimes technical glitches in the GDAL-Zenodo-DOI workflows, we have now tangible proof of the resulting benefits: Whenever a GDAL DOI is referenced in a scientic journal (which uses the CrossRef infrastructure for bibliographic citations), this can be tracked down and reported. A listing of the publications citing GDAL in this manner is available here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/DOI#GDAL GDAL has been referenced in publications from Nature, Springer, Wiley, American Geophysical Society and other publishers. Since 2022, sixteen publications were reported (2022: 6 publications, 2023: 7 publications, 2024: 3 publications (so far)). While these numbers might appear small, this is a very interesting development about the recognition of open source software as a part of open science. Congratulations & best regards, Peter PS: There are actually many more publications citing GDAL, such as the FOSS4G proceedings, but they are not connected to the CrossRef bibliography infrastructure (yet). <peter.lo...@gmx.de> _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
