I think it is valuable having the option to cite a specific tutorial: be it as a starting point (if somebody wants to do this) or, to claim ownership (like I ask my students who contributed a tutorial do). I already generate zenodo DOIs for deal.II, for example https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__doi.org_10.5281_zenodo.61430&d=DwIBaQ&c=Ngd-ta5yRYsqeUsEDgxhcqsYYY1Xs5ogLxWPA_2Wlc4&r=bIZ1PN9GFeiDFVPWRQ7rHwsFOCnh0BavuhRERQ4RDWGqJOxfLu0FfCOxyifWO5wc&m=QBOg_BDNEv2oxreDNyMg5qlOXr0VonBbmR-nJnozly4&s=m-02g5Xa9gAtLPafL-gUa_jIap1nABF7b_EYozeVaHA&e= The problem is that the tutorials are a part of the deal.II repo, so you can not cite the tutorial directly (and the author list is incorrect).
But we could create DOIs for the tutorials that really only list the (original) authors of that program. Presumably, people who cite them would also cite deal.II itself.
I think a bigger problem is that even if there is a DOI for a tutorial program, it's still not clear to anyone how exactly to cite it. For example, the page Timo references above says to use
Wolfgang Bangerth, ., Guido Kanschat, ., Matthias Maier, ., Timo Heister, ., Martin Kronbichler, ., Luca Heltai, ., … Marco Tezzele, . (2016). dealii: deal.II version 8.4.2 [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.61430
I don't actually know how it came up with the author list -- it may simply be the complete list of committers to the github repo. It's also not a [Data set]. So I'm not entirely sure if that would really help people.
Finally, there is of course the question that citations only help if the citation search engines (mathscinet, google scholar, etc.) actually pick them up. Is that the case for zenodo?
I can not think of a good solution for this, so I just create a citation linking to the .html page of the tutorial.
That's what I've done as well. Best W. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wolfgang Bangerth email: [email protected] www: http://www.math.colostate.edu/~bangerth/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
