#947: g.version: new flag for citation info
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Reporter: hamish | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.0
Component: default | Version: svn-trunk
Keywords: g.version, citation | Platform: All
Cpu: All |
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Hi,
it is proposed to add a new flag to print out "how to cite grass"
information.
doing this in g.version means that the info would always be up to date and
relevant for the software used.
the obvious choices for flag key -c (cite) -r (ref) -b (biblio) are
already taken, so I propose -x for "cross-ref".
{{{
cite_flag = G_define_flag();
cite_flag->key = 'x';
cite_flag->description =
_("Display information on how to cite this software");
}}}
the text is currently at:
http://grass.osgeo.org/download/
{{{
Citing GRASS Software
Please cite GRASS when using the software in your work. Here are some
choices depending on the version used:
* GRASS Development Team, 2010. Geographic Resources Analysis
Support System (GRASS) Software, Version 6.4.0. Open Source
Geospatial Foundation. http://grass.osgeo.org
* GRASS Development Team, 2009. Geographic Resources Analysis
Support System (GRASS) Programmer's Manual. Open Source
Geospatial Foundation. Electronic document:
http://download.osgeo.org/grass/grass6_progman/
A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
@Manual{GRASS_GIS_software,
title = {Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS GIS)
Software},
author = {{GRASS Development Team}},
organization = {Open Source Geospatial Foundation},
address = {USA},
year = {2010},
url = {http://grass.osgeo.org},
}
}}}
Of course the version and date, etc should be dynamically filled in by the
program.
see also
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Documents#General
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Citation_Repository
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Citations_for_specific_modules
thanks,
Hamish
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