Asclepias: Flower Power for Software Citation

Asclepias is a project between CERN/Zenodo, NASA ADS and AAS to promote scientific software into an identifiable, citable, and preservable object. We are focusing upon the needs of two of the most important roles researchers play in the scholarly ecosystem: authors of scholarly manuscripts and developers of scientific software. We are building a technical framework and promoting a set of social practices that will help to manage some of the problems associated with software citations, which include software versions, release specific authorship, synonymous object identifiers, and best practices for journal references markup. Our technical solution provides a flexible and reusable service that, as first step, will connect Zenodo[1] and ADS[2] systems using the Scholix[3] framework as the interoperability communication protocol to share scholarly PID-based links.
[1] https://zenodo.org
[2] https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
[3] http://www.scholix.org