TY - DATA T1 - Track 2 Lightning Talk: Should CITATION files be standardized? PY - 2017/08/30 AU - Stephan Druskat UR - https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Track_2_Lightning_Talk_Should_CITATION_files_be_standardized_/3827058 DO - 10.6084/m9.figshare.3827058.v4 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/9208933 KW - WSSSPE5.1 KW - Credit KW - Attribution KW - Research software KW - Standardization KW - Format KW - CITATION files KW - software sustainability KW - Open Software KW - Organisation of Information and Knowledge Resources KW - Research, Science and Technology Policy N2 - This paper proposes and discusses the standardization of files that contain reference information for research software: CITATION files. While some research software provides files with information on how to reference the software for the purposes of citation, these files vary enormously in their syntax, format, contents, names and extensions. A standardization of CITATION files could boost the visibility of the contained information through machine-readability, and consequently possibilities for re-use. A standardization that would preserve human-readability at the same time would provide a compromise between free form text files and more elaborate systems for transitive credit. ER -