Hi folks,
here’s a suggestion to improve the content of the GRASS website, regarding due credit for GRASS code and Open Science (i.e. replication of scientific results by providing not just a journal article, but also the exact code- and database which was used):
The GRASS website already features prominently the DOI for GRASS, which is great. DOI (Digtial Object Identifiers) are the current best practice standard for code citation in Science.
The website for now only provides this DOI for GRASS in the citation section ( Citation ): DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5176030
However, this DOI 10.5281/zenodo.5176030 is an “umbrella“-reference for _all_ GRASS code releases (digital librarian lingo: “concept DOI“).
In addition to the “umbrella“ DOI we also have specific “version“-DOI for each GRASS release, which are linked as children to the umbrella DOI.
So if folks want to cite the exact GRASS version/release they actually used for their research, this can be easily done, going back till 2021:
GRASS 8.4.2: 10.5281/zenodo.17733233
GRASS 8.4.1 10.5281/zenodo.14918754
GRASS 8.4.0 10.5281/zenodo.13102854
GRASS 8.3.2 10.5281/zenodo.10817962
(…)
GRASS 7.8.6 10.5281/zenodo.5559460
I propose to add the version DOI for the last three GRASS releases to the website, as an extra service t o the scientific GRASS community.
On the good side the adoption rate for the GRASS DOI being used in scientific literature is going strong: Stats here: GRASS DOI-based References
Best,
Peter