Software with DOIs
CRAN¹ has added DOIs to the packages available there. As a test I have imported one of my own packages via the magic wand. The result as seen on https://www.zotero.org/ralfs#ZT8KDEU7 is not bad. But there are some things that could be improved:
* This should be of type Software, not Dataset. Manually changing that would remove the DOI.
* The date 2018-05-11 is the date this package was first published on CRAN. Where does that Zotero find this date? More appropriate might be the date when the current version was published (2024-05-28), which is prominently displayed on the web page.
* Why does Zotero add "Pages: 0.4.1" to the Extra field? That looks like the current version number.
Can/Should this be improved?
1 Comprehensive R Archive Network, a site with software (and some datasets) for the statistical programming language R.
* This should be of type Software, not Dataset. Manually changing that would remove the DOI.
* The date 2018-05-11 is the date this package was first published on CRAN. Where does that Zotero find this date? More appropriate might be the date when the current version was published (2024-05-28), which is prominently displayed on the web page.
* Why does Zotero add "Pages: 0.4.1" to the Extra field? That looks like the current version number.
Can/Should this be improved?
1 Comprehensive R Archive Network, a site with software (and some datasets) for the statistical programming language R.
Of course, it would be great if Zotero would allow a DOI field for "software". This way the entry could be cleaned up after importing.
Eventually, the DOI will get generalized, the Extra value should be migrated automatically, and everybody will rejoice. Unfortunately, there is no automatic migration from a natural DOI to an Extra one when you change the type of a reference from (for example) dataset to software, but you can enter it manually. Would this work-around be OK for you?