Re: How to properly cite Debian in an academic work?
Hi again Joenio,
In your original post, you asked on how to cite "the Debian project as a
whole". But what do you mean by that? The Debian project is an informal group
of people and Debian is used to refer to the Operating System. (And it's not a
legal entity.) What is your usecase? Are you actually trying to refer to
some specific product shipped by the Debian project?
Bye!
Joost
On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 07:13:41PM +0200, Joenio Marques da Costa wrote:
> Hi Joost,
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> Citing an "Operating System" is in fact something that I'm not sure
> how to proceed.
>
> But software is something we could cite, and in fact there
> is a movement inside the academic field to give more visibility
> and to recognize the work of software authors.
>
> In the last few years some initiatives were created to improve the
> quality of software citation, one example is the CITATION File Format
> (CFF)[1], it provides citation metadata for software or datasets.
>
> Another example is the CodeMeta Project[2], but those 2 examples are
> mainly designed for software projects created with academic purpose
> in mind, what is not the case of Debian, however I don't think it
> hurts to bring those into Debian, if possible.
>
> [1] https://citation-file-format.github.io
> [2] https://codemeta.github.io
>
> Best,
>
> Le 18/09/2024 à 17:43, Joost van Baal-Ilić a écrit :
> > Hi Joenio,
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 04:49:27PM +0200, Joenio Marques da Costa wrote:
> > >
> > > Do we have any documentation with recommendation on how to
> > > properly cite Debian in an academic work?
> > >
> > > By citing Debian I mean a citation to the Debian project
> > > as a whole rather then citing a specific package inside Debian.
> > >
> > > When I search on Google Scholar for the string below.
> > >
> > > "Debian Operating System"
> > >
> > > I can find some results, such as [1] and [2], that could be
> > > used to cite "Debian - The Operating System" but I'm not sure
> > > it would be the best approach.
> > >
> > > Do you have any recommendation or references where can I find
> > > more info about this topic?
> > >
> > > [1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/223198
> > > [2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/1212556
> >
> > I think scientific citations refer to texts / books / articles, not to software
> > collections? So The Debian Operating System we ship is not a publication which
> > could be cited?
> >
> > My € 0,02.
> >
> > Bye,
> >
> > Joost
> >
>
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