Create a DOI for this repository

[dawehner]

Since https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/ you can create a DOI for your git repositories which could be a better alternative than just linking to repo URL or the arXiv paper.

What do you think about this?

[hannorein]

I looked into this while ago, but their system does currently not support organization based repositories (such as this one). I was told this feature will be added some time soon. If so (did they already?), then I see no reason why we shouldn't do that.

[ryanvarley]

My organisation repos show up on Zenodo so i assume you can

[hannorein]

They've just added it. Nice.

[hannorein]

So this works on a release basis. How shall we do that given that the catalogue is constantly updated.

[ryanvarley]

Thats a good point, you can edit the DOI so perhaps they will let you move it with releases.

Given that I am not sure a DOI will be useful for this project. Surely a reference to the paper, the date of the commit and the SHA-1 is much more meaningful and useful.

[dawehner]

In theory zenodo has an API https://zenodo.org/dev so you could use the hooks built into github to create releases on every commit OR run some cron every N days ...
On the other hand it is a good point that the repo is always updated, so a commit hash as well as the ArXiV paper would be fine as well.

Feel free to mark this issue as closed.