Academic citation about riot-os.org HOT 2 CLOSED

This starting point leads in three possible directions, I suppose:

1.) Fundamental RIOT publications: These are (i) the 2013 Infocom poster and (ii) the 2018 IEEE IoT Journal article. These two are static, there is no momentum of adding further.

2.) Ongoing scientific work of the RIOT core groups: One might expect that RIOT-centric core research is interesting, but in fact publications don't go well together. While there is a lot of decent work, some publications are just too far below the bar.

3.) Collecting all RIOT-related publications: An approach earlier taken by other groups to collect and list all papers that base on their tools or systems repeatedly turned out infeasible. There are just too many of them and one would need a person to actively chase ...

In summary, I don't see a burning use case of dynamically handling publication references ...

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In the R language ecosystem, there is this nice feature that you can citation(x) almost anything, and it works like a help function:

> library('ggplot2')
> citation('ggplot2')

To cite ggplot2 in publications, please use:

  H. Wickham. ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis.
  Springer-Verlag New York, 2016.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Book{,
    author = {Hadley Wickham},
    title = {ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis},
    publisher = {Springer-Verlag New York},
    year = {2016},
    isbn = {978-3-319-24277-4},
    url = {https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org},
  }

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If we go a similar route and provide a make citation command or something to that effect, not only is that easy to update, it could also populate the website (which already takes input from the build system) and could also include citations pulled in via the pkg system.

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