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This post is written in response to a recent article: “Beyond authorship: attribution, contribution, collaboration, and credit,” Learned Publishing 28(2), April 2015 (DOI: 10.1087/20150211). As a member of the CASRAI working group who “provided critical review of the [contributorship] taxonomy,” I am generally supportive of this idea of better and identifying contributions to scientific works.

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This is an expansion of a comment on Titus Brown’s blog post “Please destroy this software after publication. kthxbye.” which talked about how much work should go into software that was used in a submitted paper. In the past, I’ve thought of software as having one of two different purposes: Some software is just written for a single research purpose – this can be quick and dirty, as long as it does the immediate job.

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The end of last week (26 March) marked the start of my fourth and final year as a rotator at NSF.  It’s been a really good experience so far, and I’m a bit sad to see the end coming. I’ve really enjoyed being able to work with a wonderful set of people in the Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure and across NSF.

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“Our Scholarly Recognition System Doesn’t Still Work” is the title of a panel at the Science of Team Science Conference that I’m co-organizing with Amy Brand (Digital Science), Melissa Haendel (Oregon Health & Science University), and Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski (Elsevier) If you are interested in this topic, you may want to consider attending the conference and the panel.

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The problem The following question was emailed to me by Jim Fowler: “I’m a professor at Ohio State and I sit on the committee which is drafting a new IP policy for faculty work. I’d like the new policy to support faculty contributions to open source software projects. I am very impressed with what you’ve done to recommend open source licensing on NSF funded projects;

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I’ve been involved in Project CreDIT a bit, since I read an article on it in Nature: Allen, L. et al. 17 April 2014. Publishing: Credit where credit is due. Nature 508, 312–313, doi:10.1038/508312a and wrote to the authors, since it seemed to overlap some of the ideas I’d been thinking about called transitive credit: Katz, D.S. 2014.