Hi,
On 9/19/24 04:24, Bill Allombert wrote:
Le Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 05:43:32PM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić a écrit :
Hi Joenio,
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?
Nowadays it is customary to cite software. It is even required in an
increasing number of settings, in particular reproducible science.
Debian publishes a software distribution, which can certainly be cited.
It is not quite relevant to Debian, but when asking for a grant,
your software having citations really helps, whether it is 10, 100
or 1000.
I would just write
[1] Debian GNU/Linux, version 12.7, the Debian project, https://www.debian.org
Following a bit on Bill's advice, there are several academic publications
referencing Debian as a source or directly, and other FLOSS projects.
From a quick cursory glance I am providing a rabbit hole of links of what I
found, perhaps from there you can delve into something that may give you better
guidance on how to accomplish a software project as a reference point.
Also in the same search, José A. Galindo, seems to do a lot of F/LOSS research
with citations.
*Adoption of Academic Tools in Open Source Communities: The Debian Case Study
Conference paper Open Access First Online: 23 April 2017
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-57735-7_14
*Debian Research Publications
https://wiki.debian.org/research/publications
*Linked Data descriptions of Debian source packages using ADMS.SW
https://www-public.imtbs-tsp.eu/~berger_o/papier-swese2012/
Oliver Berger (2009)
Some sources with libraries to grep:
* https://academia.edu
* https://link.springer.com
* https://www.researchgate.net