Replacing CITATION.bib with a standard metadata format

[stevengj]

@StefanKarpinski

It would help to encourage the use of CodeMeta if someone could decipher the standard sufficiently to figure out how to write citations in packages. I have not been able to glean basic things like:

• what the file name should be
• what the relevant field names are
• what tools one should install to parse and transform CodeMeta
• what command invocations are necessary to generate BibTeX from CodeMeta

• codemeta.json is the standard name (codemeta/codemeta#81)
• the possible fields are listed here: The CodeMeta Project
• it’s a JSON file.
• Essentially doi2bib(JSON.parse(String(read("codemeta.json")))["citation"]) using the doi2bib function I posted above, at least in the minimal case of a single citation given by a DOI, although technically the citation field is a URL so you’d need split out the part after http://dx.doi.org/ first … you could also support other kinds of URLs as I mentioned above. (The citation field can also be an array.)

I agree that their documentation is abysmal, though.