325-spotlight-palladio

• Pipeline passed, here the correct review link

Checklist for authors

• Add a link pointing to the review app

Checklist for reviewers

• File size of images is not too large
• Update date_added attribute
• Centres are referenced by official names
• License is named by SPDX identifier if possible
• All links are pointing to the right place

/cc @frust45 @konrad @jandt-desy

_spotlights/cff.md

+---
+layout: spotlight
+
+###############################################################################
+# Template for Software spotlights
+###############################################################################
+# Templates starting with a _, e.g. "_template.md" will not be integrated into
+# the spotlights.
+#
+# Optional settings can be left empty.
+
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Properties for spotlights list page
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# The name of the software
+name: Citation File Format
+
+# The date when the software was added to the spotlights YYYY-MM-DD
+date_added: 2022-06-23
+
+# Small preview image shown at the spotlights list page.
+# Note: the path is relative to /assets/img/spotlights/
+preview_image: cff/cff.png
+
+# One or two sentences describing the software
+excerpt: The Citation File Format (CFF) project provides a format and schema for plain text CITATION.cff files with human- and machine-readable citation information for software (and datasets). Developers/RSEs can include them in their repositories to let others know how to correctly cite their software. The project also provides tooling for working with CFF files.
+
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Properties for individual spotlights page
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Entries here will be shown in the green box on the right of the screen.
+
+# Jumbotron (optional)
+# The path is relative to /assets/img/jumbotrons/
+title_image:
+
+# Title at the top, inside the title-content-container
+title: Citation File Format (CFF)
+
+# Add at least one keyword
+keywords:
+    - software citation
+    - Citation File Format
+    - metadata
+    - research software sustainability
+
+# The Helmholtz research field
+hgf_research_field: Information
+
+# At least one responsible centre
+hgf_centers:
+    - German Aerospace Center (DLR)
+
+# List of other contributing organisations (optional)
+contributing_organisations:
+    - name: "Netherlands eScience Center"
+      link_as: https://www.esciencecenter.nl/
+    - name: "University of Manchester"
+      link_as: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/
+
+# List of scientific communities
+scientific_community:
+    - Research Software Engineering
+    - Library and Information Science
+    - Computer Science (Software Engineering)
+    - Scholarly Communications
+
+# Impact on community (optional, not implemented yet)
+impact_on_community: Over 9,000 CITATION.cff files on GitHub
+
+# An e-mail address
+contact: stephan.druskat@dlr.de
+
+# Platforms (optional)
+# Provide platforms in this format
+#   - type: TYPE
+#     link_as: LINK
+# Valid TYPES are: webpage, telegram, mailing-list, twitter, gitlab, github
+# Mailing lists should be added as "mailto:mailinglist@url.de"
+# More types can be implemented by modifying /_layouts/spotlight.html
+platforms:
+    - type: webpage
+      link_as: https://citation-file-format.github.io/
+    - type: github
+      link_as: https://github.com/citation-file-format/citation-file-format
+
+# The software license, please use an SPDX Identifier (https://spdx.org/licenses/) if possible (optional)
+license: CC-BY-4.0
+
+# Is the software pricey or free? (optional)
+costs: free
+
+# What is this software used for in general (e.g. modelling)? (optional, not implemented yet)
+software_type:
+    - software metadata
+
+# The applicaiton type (Desktop, Mobile, Web) (optional, not implemented yet)
+application_type:
+    - CLI
+
+# List of programming languages (optional)
+programming_languages:
+    - YAML
+    - JSON Schema
+    - Go
+    - Haskell
+    - Java
+    - JavaScript
+    - Julia
+    - PHP
+    - Python
+    - R
+    - Ruby
+    - TypeScript
+
+# DOI (without URL, just 10.1000/1.0000000 ) (optional)
+doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1003149
+
+# Funding of the software (optional)
+funding:
+  - shortname: Software Sustainability Insitute (SSI), UK
+    funding_text: Fellowship (Stephan Druskat, since 2018), event fund
+    link_as: https://software.ac.uk/
+  - shortname: "Code for Science & Society, US"
+    funding_text: Digital Infrastructure Incubator
+    link_as: https://incubator.codeforscience.org/
+  - shortname: "CampusSource e.V., DE"
+    funding_text: CampusSource Award 2022
+    link_as: https://ev.campussource.de/publikationen/csa2022/
+
+---
+
+# The Citation File Format - making software citation easi(er)
+
+The citation of software is important to enable attribution and credit for developers
+of research software and reproducibility.
+In comparison to more traditional research outputs such as papers, 
+software does not inherently provide the necessary metadata to cite it correctly.
+Therefore it is necessary for software authors to provide these metadata,
+including software-specific metadata such as version identifiers,
+source code repositories and license information.
+
+The [Citation File Format](https://citation-file-format.github.io/) (CFF) is a community project that provides
+a human- and machine-readable format and schema for software citation metadata files (`CITATION.cff`),
+as well as tools for working with the format.
+This way, software authors can supply the relevant metadata for their software,
+and both human users and downstream services can use and reuse the respective metadata.
+
+<div class="spotlights-text-image">
+{% highlight yaml %}
+  cff-version: 1.2.0
+  message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below."  
+  authors:
+    - family-names: Druskat
+      given-names: Stephan
+      orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4925-7248
+  title: "My Research Software"
+  version: 2.0.4
+  doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1234
+  date-released: 2021-08-11
+{% endhighlight %}
+<span>An example for a minimal <tt>CITATION.cff</tt> file.</span>
+</div>
+
+The Citation File Format project provides tooling for creating, editing, updating, validating, and converting CFF files
+in a number of programming languages/technologies.
+All tools as well as the schema and documentation are published under open licenses.
+
+CFF is supported by several platforms in academia and software development;
+GitHub uses `CITATION.cff` files to render citation information for repositories;
+Zenodo - a universal open access repository for digital research artifacts - uses the information in
+CFF files to populate record metadata in automated workflows;
+Reference managers such as Zotero and JabRef support the import of software citation metadata from CFF files.
+
+<div class="spotlights-text-image">
+<img src="{{ site.directory.images | relative_url}}spotlights/cff/cff_screen.png" alt="The GitHub citation widget displaying citation information based on CITATION.cff.">
+<span>The GitHub citation widget displaying citation information based on <tt>CITATION.cff</tt>.</span>
+</div>
+
+The Citation File Format schema is written in JSON Schema.
+CFF files instances are implemented in YAML.
+As of June 2022, [more than 9,000 `CITATION.cff`](https://github.com/sdruskat/cfftracker) files have been created on GitHub alone.