CodeMeta support in Github

[priya-gitTest]

Hi,
Is there a plan to integrate CodeMeta in Github similar to CITATION.cff File ?

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[progval]

Hi,

Github has no such plans as far as I am aware, but you can contact their support to ask them.

[priya-gitTest]

Created a Ticket. Lets see what they reply. https://support.github.com/ticket/personal/0/2736548

[priya-gitTest]

Their Copilot suggested to look into this page, which looks like an interesting alternative to see how CodeMeta can be generated/aligned from this, if possible.. https://docs.github.com/en/communities/setting-up-your-project-for-healthy-contributions/about-community-profiles-for-public-repositories

[progval]

I don't see how this is related, "community profiles" are links to some text files while what you are suggesting (if I'm not mistaken) is for Github to generate APA/BibTeX/... from CodeMeta files in the repository.

[priya-gitTest]

Its not clear what data they use to generate it, and if that can converge with some fields of CodeMeta but for now, I have opened this discussion. If you think it needs correction, let me know .

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/120212

[moranegg]

InvenioRDM & Zenodo are planning for this support to be available at the end of 2024 or start of 2025.
Applicable to any release including a codemeta.json file.

@arfon any plans for codemeta.json support in GitHub?

[arfon]

@arfon any plans for codemeta.json support in GitHub?

Nothing immediate no, but there are (at least) two possible things we could be talking about here:

1. Teach GitHub to look for codemeta.json files and read them if discovered (e.g., similar to how CITATION.cff files are detected and parsed).
2. Get GitHub to generate codemeta.json files from the right-hand menu (that currently produces an APA or BibTeX formatted citation).

In both cases, we use the https://github.com/citation-file-format/ruby-cff library to read files. Depending upon which you're talking about, we would probably need to teach the ruby-cff library about codemeta files.

[moranegg]

@arfon Thanks.

So you would suggest using directly the ruby-cff library and not creating another library for codemeta.json?
If so, I can see if someone is game for doing a PR there.

[arfon]

Definitely. Even though the name (ruby-cff is a little awkward here), given we already have this as a 'paved path' for reading citation files in Ruby, I think it makes most sense (certainly for including in the GitHub codebase) for us to teach that library to understand these files.

/ cc @hainesr in case he feels very differently about this :-)