Published in Daniel S. Katz's blog

By Daniel S. Katz, Daina Bouquin, Neil Chue Hong   Identification of software is essential to a number of important issues, such as citation, provenance, and reproducibility. Here, we are focusing on issues related to citation. Identification can be thought of as a subset of naming. Some important questions are therefore: How do we name things? How do we know how things are named? And who gets to name things?