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Off topic, but this made me think that it would be neat if libraries on places like github and nuget could someout include "cited by" data. Something that refe
by jamessantiago 12y ago
Off topic, but this made me think that it would be neat if libraries on places like github and nuget could someout include "cited by" data. Something that referenced open source (maybe closed source too) projects that had a dependency to the library similar to google scholar or CiteSeerX.
- asuidyasiud 12y agoYou can get a DOI for github.
- afandian 12y agoThen what? There's nothing magical about DOIs. You need someone to store the citation metadata. And generate / deposit citation metadata. And maintain the persistence of the DOI. What precisely does the DOI represent? A codebase? A fork of it? A file? A file at a particular revision? A changeset?