Err, had a few typos. Sorry! On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Leonardo Collado Torres <lcoll...@jhu.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I looked at https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/ after > reading http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/04/15/048744 (Laurent > Gatto is the 2nd author). > > It got me thinking that maybe with the Bioconductor-mirror's at GitHub > we could use Zenodo for creating DOI's of Bioconductor's packages for > every Bioconductor release. So, for example when BioC 3.3 is release,
I meant: every Bioconductor release. So, for example when BioC 3.3 is released, > have Bioconductor-mirror create a "release" (a git tag), which would > then lead do a new DOI from Zenodo. Meant: then lead to a new DOI from Zenodo. > > It might have to be a bit more complicated. For example, maybe don't > create a new DOI for a package if it had 0 commits during the last 6 > month devel cycle. Also, I don't think that a new DOI should be > created for every commit or package version bump since that would > likely be a tad confusing. > > I also don't know if having DOIs for packages would increase citations > to them or simply move them away from the papers (if a package has > been described in a paper) to the Zenodo DOIs. That is, would someone > cite the paper and the package DOI? Or just one of the two? > > Anyhow, it got me curious and would like to know what others think about it. > > Best, > Leo > > Leonardo Collado Torres, PhD Candidate > Department of Biostatistics > Johns Hopkins University > Bloomberg School of Public Health > Website: http://lcolladotor.github.io/about.html _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
