Over the past year, the RDA/WDS Scholix Working Group has been actively working to expand its support beyond article/data linking to encompass software.
In the communities represented in the group, repositories, publishers, and Scholix hubs such as Crossref, DataCite and OpenAIRE, we’re seeing a growth in the acknowledgement and citation of the software that underpins and supports published research. And like data, we see software as an equivalent output and want to make sure that it can be identified, linked to, cited and rewarded alongside related research.
The group has been working with the wider community to extend the newly-published schema to support software, via the working group, other meetings and a variety of presentations. We want to showcase this work in our session, share insights from publishers, Scholix hubs, repositories and others in the community about their plans to better support software linking and citation, hear what different stakeholders are doing already, and continue to gather feedback to support adoption of this evolving standard.
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Share published Scholix schema expansion to support software including examples, trends, limitations
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Provide guidance for use and implementation of the schema to support best practice across the Crossref and DataCite communities and discuss what more we can do
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Discuss how software policies can support better linking and citation
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Look at existing tools/data/insights and discuss new adoption opportunities and strategies
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Background on / history of the development of the Scholix schema
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Announcement of new schema version
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Motivations for adding software: what does this help us do?
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Share published Scholix schema expansion to support software including examples, trends, limitations
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Showcasing existing examples of links to software in our existing tools and services
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Provide guidance for the use and implementation of the schema to support best practice
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Look at existing data/insights and discuss new adoption opportunities and strategies
Repository Managers and other professionals
Publishers
Software tools providers and creators
Information Systems professionals
The working group has generated a Scholix metadata schema, has helped implement this schema in multiple Scholix hubs and other infrastructure providers, and has built a community that provides data citation services.
The group meets regularly to discuss adoption, technical and other enhancements to our system and the Scholix metadata and related projects. These discussions led to us kicking off work in 2022 to better support software which is what we’d like to share with the community at the upcoming plenary.
Burton, Adrian, Fenner, Martin, Haak, Wouter, & Manghi, Paolo. (2017). Scholix Metadata Schema for Exchange of Scholarly Communication Links (Version v3). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1120265
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