I just learned about GitHub’s support for the CITATION.cff Citation File Format standard. I can appreciate that properly citing a software project or data set is much less obvious compared to a research paper, so having an easy means of providing the applicable metadata in a consistent format makes a lot of sense.
Learning about the above standard also led me to the ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) non-profit organization, which is a community trust network that aims to “elevate trust and integrity in the scholarly record” by allowing researches to freely register for a unique identification that can be used to accurately link to contributions in their respective fields. GitHub also supports connecting an ORCID to your user profile for display.
While I’m not in academia, I’m certainly interested in the broader movement towards open science and transparent research practices. This directly relates to the replication crisis as well.
There’s a competing standard, W3C DIDs (Decentralized Identifiers), that’s a bit newer, but not widely used. Similar mechanisms exist for identification of individual works, like DOIs, PMIDs, ISSNs, and so on.
For posterity, here’s my ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9030-7469