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Force11 Software Citation Working Group

Force11 Software Citation Working Group

##Mission Statement (WIP)

The software citation working group is committee that will leverage the perspectives of a variety of existing initiatives working on software citation to produce a consolidated set of citation principles in order to encourage broad adoption of a consistent policy for software citation across disciplines and venues. The working group will review existing efforts and make a set of recommendations. These recommendations will be put up for endorsement by the organizations represented by this group and others that play an important role in the community.

The group will produce a set of principles, illustrated with working examples, and a plan for dissemination and distribution. This group will not be producing detailed specifications for implementation although it may review and discuss possible technical solutions.

Co-chairs: Dan Katz & Arfon Smith

##Timeline

Phase 1 (June/July 2015)

Kick off meeting (telecon) with goals of:

• Establish interest/backgrounds of working group participants.
• Review mission statement, timeline and goals
• Seek out additional participants (if we're missing key individuals)

Phase 2 (July/August/September 2015)

• Gather materials documenting existing practices in member disciplines
• Review materials, identifying overlaps and differences

Phase 3 (September/October/November 2015)

• Drafting of Software Citation Principles (possibly in person at WSSSPE, Boulder, CO - 28/29 September)
• Seek community feedback on draft
• Iterate

Phase 4 (November/December/January)

• Software Citation Principles proposed final draft complete.
• Seek out community endorsements for draft principles.

Phase 5 (February 2016)

• Presentation of formal recommendations at Force11 2016

Communication plan

• Monthly telecons
• GitHub for documentation/iterating on content
• Google groups for general discussion
• Force11 email list for announcements

##Members

If you are interested in joining the group, please:

1. Add yourself to the list below through a pull request
2. To add yourself to the group mailing list and group folder on Force11:

• Sign into Force11: http://www.force11.org/user/register
• After Signing in, on the group page (http://www.force11.org/group/software-citation-working-group) subscribe to the group here using the "subscribe to group" link in right column above the group list

Name	Affiliation	Role
Carl Boettiger (@cboettig)	UC Berkeley	Participant
Neil Chue Hong (@npch)	Software Sustainability Institute	Participant
Mercè Crosas (@mcrosas)	IQSS, Harvard University	Participant
Ian Gent (@turingfan)	University of St Andrews, recomputation.org	Participant
Paul Groth (@pgroth)	Elsevier Labs	Participant
Stephanie Hagstrom (@sthagstrom)	Force11	Participant
Ivan Herman (@iherman)	W3C	Participant
Matthew B. Jones (@mbjones)	NCEAS, UC Santa Barbara	Participant
Daniel S. Katz (@danielskatz)	U Chicago & Argonne Natl Lab	Co-chair
Alexander Konovalov (@alex-konovalov)	University of St Andrews	Participant
John Kratz (@JEK-III)	California Digital Library	Participant
Daniel Mietchen (@Daniel-Mietchen)	NIH	Participant
Bill Mills (@BillMills)	Mozilla Science Lab	Participant
Evan Misshula (@EMisshula)	CUNY Graduate Center	Participant
Lars Holm Nielsen (@lnielsen)	CERN	Participant
Karthik Ram (@_inundata)	University of California, Berkeley	Participant
Arfon Smith (@arfon)	GitHub	Co-chair
Kaitlin Thaney (@kaythaney)	Mozilla Science Lab	Participant
Nic Weber (@nniiicc)	University of Washington iSchool	Participant