Welcome to the Summer Meeting for the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)! The 2017 theme is Strengthening Ties Between Observations and User Communities. The theme is based on one of the goals in the 2015 - 2020 ESIP Strategic Plan, which provides a framework for ESIP’s activities over the next three years.
Citations for data are becoming more common place as data centers are minting DOIs for datasets and journals are requiring that data be cited. The next step is to apply this to software and services. Software and services provide analysis of data and can also produce data. The provenance of this should be captured in a way that easily traceable. Citations and identifiers can help provide this provenance.
This session will provide a summary of current software citation recommendations and formats. We will then go over the elements of each and see what works and what potential gaps there may be by trying to trace some example citations of each style. We will consolidate our results, which will be used to provide recommendations to the ESIP science software cluster and ESDIS software and services working group.
