Citation Metadata

[HendrikBorgelt]

Since I hate it if people don't provide clear instructions on how to cite their repo, I have prepared a short text, which we could implement as a CITATION.cff file. We should, however, wait till we have the DOI for our paper.

cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this software in your work, please cite it using the following metadata."
authors:
- family-names: "Strömert"
  given-names: "Philip"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000−0002−1595−3213"
- family-names: "Linke"
  given-names: "David"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000−0002−5898−1820"
- family-names: "Doerr"
  given-names: "Mark"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000−0003−3270−6895"
- family-names: "Borgelt"
  given-names: "Hendrik"
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000−0001−5886−7860"
title: "ChemDCAT-AP: Enabling Semantic Interoperability with a Contextual Extension of DCAT-AP"
version: 0.1.0 rc1
doi:                                                          **10.5281/zenodo.1234**
date-released: 2025-11-03
url: "https://github.com/nfdi-de/dcat-ap-plus"

Feel free to comment on how we may want to modify the citation file.

[dalito]

Good point.

Is cff also linked in the right sidebar under "Cite this repository"? I know GH detects *.bib and some other citation formats (also cff?) to generate the dropdown.

I'll use the data as the base for the .zenodo.json file which we need in #22 to transfer ORCID information to Zenodo. Zenodo will then also offer copy-pastable citation information,

[HendrikBorgelt]

Yes David, .cff files are supported, as seen here: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-citation-files

[markdoerr]

Thanks, @HendrikBorgelt,
for bringing this up
(I just changed ö -> oe in my last-name to have the international version :)

[dalito]

The DOI for all versions of dcat-ap-plus is https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17702369