Add a CITATION.cff file

[Shrinks99]

GitHub has a cool feature that lets people more easily cite your project! This is especially relevant for reference managers like Zotero which will pull this data automatically. Occasionally researchers and academics will use Browsertrix (or Browsertrix Crawler) — it would be nice for them to cite the correct tool! This (hopefully) helps them do that :)

Changes

• Adds a CITATION.cff file
• Updates the update-version.sh script to also update the citation file with the correct version number

Future

Could add this for Webrecorder's other repos to encourage proper software citations for Webrecorder's other work, though they don't have update scripts like Browsertrix does so this introduces extra complexity in the version number update process unless those scripts are created.

[ikreymer]

Does the version number really need to be in the citation file? Chances are, someone is just citing Browsertrix in general, not a specific release..

[Shrinks99]

Generally yes! It's best practice to cite a specific release when you are citing software because software changes over multiple releases. Ultimately this is up to the academic & referencing style, but including it here in the citation information means that it can be propagated to the desired reference format, whatever that may be.