From 1c4a0d0edf717a37c35390cf589c079623b1ef56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: d33bs <ekgto445@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:46:56 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Create CITATION.cff

---
 CITATION.cff | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 CITATION.cff

diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2e93596ad3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+---
+cff-version: "1.2.0"
+title: Apache Arrow
+message: >-
+  If you use this software, please cite it using the metadata
+  from this file.
+type: software
+authors:
+  - name: Apache Arrow Contributors
+    email: dev@arrow.apache.org
+repository-code: https://github.com/apache/arrow
+url: https://arrow.apache.org/
+abstract: >-
+  Apache Arrow is a universal columnar format and multi-language toolbox for
+  fast data interchange and in-memory analytics. It contains a set of
+  technologies that enable data systems to efficiently store, process, and
+  move data.
+keywords:
+  - apache-arrow
+  - columnar-format
+  - in-memory-analytics
+  - data-interchange
+  - arrow-ipc
+  - arrow-flight
+  - pyarrow
+  - r
+  - ruby
+  - cpp
+license: Apache-2.0

From d082557fcab3f54226c617e8bd7ef6bd1f6417b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: d33bs <ekgto445@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:49:46 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] more specific keywords

Co-Authored-By: Antoine Pitrou <1721820+pitrou@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 CITATION.cff | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index 2e93596ad3f..e995b7f6e4a 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -37,10 +37,11 @@ keywords:
   - columnar-format
   - in-memory-analytics
   - data-interchange
-  - arrow-ipc
-  - arrow-flight
-  - pyarrow
-  - r
-  - ruby
-  - cpp
+  - columnar-memory-format
+  - record-batch
+  - zero-copy-data-sharing
+  - cross-language-interoperability
+  - arrow-ipc-serialization
+  - arrow-flight-rpc
+  - analytical-data-processing
 license: Apache-2.0