From 3d10d0984ff3eb94269136862ed6d48191faf961 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Subham Sangwan Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2026 10:56:02 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Add CITATION.cff file for proper software citation - Add CITATION.cff file to enable GitHub's 'Cite this repository' feature - Include software metadata: version 1.8.0, Apache 2.0 license, project URLs - Set preferred citation to foundational Geoinformatica 2019 paper (DOI: 10.1007/s10707-018-0330-9) as recommended in project docs - Follow Citation File Format (CFF) v1.2.0 specification - Include key authors with ORCID identifiers where available Fixes #2559 --- CITATION.cff | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 CITATION.cff diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6e75b25ec00 --- /dev/null +++ b/CITATION.cff @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +cff-version: 1.2.0 +message: "If you use this software, please cite it as below." +type: software +title: "Apache Sedona" +version: 1.8.0 +date-released: "2025-01-24" +url: "https://sedona.apache.org/" +repository-code: "https://github.com/apache/sedona" +license: Apache-2.0 +authors: + - name: "The Apache Software Foundation" + - family-names: "Yu" + given-names: "Jia" + email: "jiayu@apache.org" + - family-names: "Li" + given-names: "Yitao" + email: "yitao@rstudio.com" + orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1261-905X" +abstract: "Apache Sedona is a cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial data. It extends modern cluster computing systems such as Apache Spark and Apache Flink to support spatial data types, spatial indexes, and spatial data processing operations, enabling developers to easily analyze spatial data at scale using Spatial SQL, Spatial Python, or Spatial R." +keywords: + - spatial-computing + - geospatial + - big-data + - apache-spark + - apache-flink + - gis + - spatial-analytics +preferred-citation: + type: article + title: "Spatial Data Management in Apache Spark: The GeoSpark Perspective and Beyond" + authors: + - family-names: "Yu" + given-names: "Jia" + - family-names: "Zhang" + given-names: "Zongsi" + - family-names: "Sarwat" + given-names: "Mohamed" + doi: "10.1007/s10707-018-0330-9" + journal: "GeoInformatica" + year: 2019 + url: "https://jiayuasu.github.io/files/paper/GeoSpark_Geoinformatica_2018.pdf"