Software Citation Workshop 2022

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Librarians at the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) are bringing together stakeholders and experts representing many forms of labor and expertise to address specific questions about software citation that have so far gone unresolved.

Mission

Move the needle on the most persistent software citation challenges.

A Two-Part Workshop

To address the above questions, SCW 22' will have two complementary components:

Online Focus Groups

June 28 - 30th

Although the meeting organizers originally planned for a fully in-person meeting, the constantly shifting pandemic landscape necessitated a new approach. Instead of one large meeting, SCW ‘22 will start with a series online focus groups. The focus groups will help meeting organizers better understand how various stakeholders view problems associated with software citation metadata availability in respositories and perceived barriers to implementing software citation metadata standards. We also hope to learn how these people think software citation problems should be prioritized.

In-Person meeting

August 15 - 17th

After the focus group sessions, there will be a smaller in-person meeting at the CfA in Cambridge, MA . This event will be heavily informed by the focus groups. In-person meeting attendees will:

  • Brainstorm interventions to tackle specific software citation problems
  • Prioritize problems and lay out a series of mutually supporting approaches to address them
  • Synthesize a plan of action and other deliverables that can be shared widely