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To reference or cite the objects present in the Software Heritage archive, permalinks based on SoftWare Hash IDentifiers (SWHIDs) must be used.
Select below a type of object currently browsed in order to display its associated SWHID and permalink.

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This interface enables to generate software citations, provided that the root directory of browsed objects contains a citation.cff or codemeta.json file.
Select below a type of object currently browsed in order to generate citations for them.

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Generate software citation in BibTex format (requires biblatex-software package)
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{
  "@context": "https://w3id.org/codemeta/3.0",
  "@type": "SoftwareSourceCode",
  "identifier": "CodeMeta",
  "description": "CodeMeta is a concept vocabulary that can be used to standardize the exchange of software metadata across repositories and organizations.",
  "name": "CodeMeta: Minimal metadata schemas for science software and code, in JSON-LD",
  "codeRepository": "https://github.com/codemeta/codemeta",
  "issueTracker": "https://github.com/codemeta/codemeta/issues",
  "license": "https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0",
  "version": "3.0",
  "author": [
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Carl",
      "familyName": "Boettiger",
      "email": "cboettig@gmail.com",
      "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1642-628X"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Matthew B.",
      "familyName": "Jones",
      "email": "jones@nceas.ucsb.edu",
      "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0077-4738"
    }
  ],
  "contributor": [
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Abby Cabunoc",
      "familyName": "Mayes",
      "email": "abbycabs@gmail.com"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Arfon",
      "familyName": "Smith",
      "email": "arfon.smith@gmail.com",
      "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3957-2474"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Peter",
      "familyName": "Slaughter",
      "email": "slaughter@nceas.ucsb.edu",
      "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2192-403X"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Kyle",
      "familyName": "Niemeyer",
      "email": "Kyle.Niemeyer@oregonstate.edu",
      "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4425-7097"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Yolanda",
      "familyName": "Gil",
      "email": "GIL@ISI.EDU",
      "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8465-8341"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Krzysztof",
      "familyName": "Nowak"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Martin",
      "familyName": "Fenner",
      "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1419-2405"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Mark",
      "familyName": "Hahnel",
      "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4741-0309"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Luke",
      "familyName": "Coy",
      "email": "luke.coy@rit.edu"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Alice",
      "familyName": "Allen",
      "email": "aallen@ascl.net",
      "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3477-2845"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Mercè",
      "familyName": "Crosas",
      "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1304-1939"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Ashley",
      "familyName": "Sands",
      "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5636-0433"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Neil",
      "familyName": "Chue Hong",
      "email": "n.chuehong@epcc.ed.ac.uk",
      "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8876-7606"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Patricia",
      "familyName": "Cruse",
      "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9300-5278"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Dan",
      "familyName": "Katz",
      "email": "dskatz@illinois.edu",
      "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2720-0339"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Carole",
      "familyName": "Goble",
      "email": "carole.goble@manchester.ac.uk",
      "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1219-2137"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Carl",
      "familyName": "Boettiger",
      "email": "cboettig@gmail.com",
      "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1642-628X"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "givenName": "Stephan",
      "familyName": "Druskat",
      "email": "mail@sdruskat.net",
      "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4925-7248"
    }
  ],
  "maintainer": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "givenName": "Carl",
    "familyName": "Boettiger",
    "email": "cboettig@gmail.com",
    "@id": "http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1642-628X"
  },
  "continuousIntegration": "https://github.com/codemeta/codemeta/actions",
  "developmentStatus": "active",
  "downloadUrl": "https://github.com/codemeta/codemeta/archive/2.0.zip",
  "funder": { 
          "@id": "https://doi.org/10.13039/100000001",
          "@type": "Organization",
          "name": "National Science Foundation"
  },
  "funding":"1549758; Codemeta: A Rosetta Stone for Metadata in Scientific Software",
  "keywords": [
    "metadata",
    "software"
  ],
  "dateCreated":"2017-06-05",
  "datePublished":"2017-06-05",
  "programmingLanguage": "JSON-LD"
}

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