tenzing, a simple web app, is designed for research scholars. It helps manage project contributor info, and generates reports about team member contributions using CRediT, for insertion into manuscripts, and for publishers to potentially incorporate into article metadata.
CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) is a taxonomy of 14 categories of contributions to scientific scholarly output. Each researcher can indicate which category they contributed to in a scholarly project.
The app is named after the Nepali-Indian Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, who was one of the two individuals who reached the summit of Mount Everest for the first time. Despite his essential contribution, he received less credit than his partner, the New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary.
tenzing can:
- read all the necessary contributorship information from one file (.csv, .tsv or .xlsx)
- create a report of the contributions
- create the contributors’ affiliation information, designed for inclusion in the first page of a manuscript
- create JATS XML with the contributions, suitable for publishers to include in metadata
- create a YAML output that will automatically add the contributorship
information to the
papajapackage used by some researchers to write APA-formatted manuscripts