Creating a DOI & citation for the dataset

[mtanneau]

Dear PGLib team,

Would it be possible to create DOIs and bibtex-like citations for specific versions of PGLib?
It can be done with, e.g., Zenodo.
This would help a lot in tracking which version of PGLib is used in publications (despite the recommendation in the README to always mention the version of PGLib in publications, I have seen multiple publications that do not follow it).

Many thanks!

[ccoffrin]

It's a good idea but do you think it would solve the problem you note here? I suspect that authors who do not explicitly list version numbers will also not be motivated to find a specific DOI for the version they are using.

[mtanneau]

TBH, the main benefit to me would be that I can cite the repo and the dataset, in addition to the arxiv paper 🙃
I do think it would make it easier for people to reproduce my experiments though, as it would reduce the room for errors when re-downloading the data.

One tangent additional argument: Zenodo would add a layer of redundancies (in addition to GitHub) since they would also archive the state of the repository when a new version is tagged.