On Thursday, 13 January 2022 2:26:01 AM AEDT Peter Löwe wrote: > Recently, new workflows for scientific citation of software projects have > emerged and are becoming state of the art. This includes references by > persistent digital object identifiers (DOI) to software projects instead of > URLs. DOI-based references allow to give due credit to the whole project > team, including first authors, developers, but also maintainers and people > in other roles. > > The Editors of the Springer Handbook agree that including DOI references for > Open Source projects is a win-win-scenario for the upcoming book and also > the OSGeo project communities. I'm not sure I understand what the advantage for geoserver is. I get that Springer will sell more books. I don't see how having a DOI provides credit to developers, maintainers or other people. How does it do that, and how does it differ from a URL link in that respect.
Can you clarify? Brad _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
