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    The SciCodes Consortium: coordinating research software registries and repositories

    21 April 2022

    … Consortium: coordinating research software registries and repositories Posted by j.laird on 21 April … that rely on computational methods often have a resource, a code registry or repository, that serves as a library for … are likely familiar with either the Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL), Computational Infrastructure for …

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    What are the formats, tools and techniques for harvesting metadata from software repositories?

    20 May 2021

    … tools and techniques for harvesting metadata from software repositories? Posted by j.laird on 20 May … Image from Hinrich, CC BY-SA 2.0 DE By Daniel Garijo , Stephan Druskat , … title, keywords), there is no common practice followed by code repositories so far. Researchers often provide most of …

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    Cloud-first: Serverless alerts for trending repositories

    06 July 2018

    Cloud-first: Serverless alerts for trending repositories Posted by r.silva on 6 July … the resultant artifact is still one-step removed from our code. Can we do any better – perhaps by simply bundling our code and submitting to a suitable capable runtime – …

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    Choosing a repository for your software project

    12 December 2023

    … software: a website, a mailing list, an issue tracker and a code repository. Although most of the infrastructure … guide provides an overview of the different options for repositories, and looks at some of the decisions you will … about one of our staff member's experiences of choosing a code repository. It provides further information about which …

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    Previously Discussed Topics

    12 December 2023

    … CW17 )  How should people get data from software repositories? What are the formats, tools and … 2017, CW17 ) Why is it important to think about code review? Constructive code critique (12 May 2017, CW17 ) …

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    Guides for researchers

    06 October 2023

    … a short overview about the steps recommended to make your code sustainable, enabling others to use and modify it. Repositories and project infrastructure Best … deposit guidance - Depositing software into digital repositories can offer many benefits to both researchers and …

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    Looking for software use in research

    05 December 2017

    … two studies referenced above. In software and software repositories Software itself is perhaps the ultimate … about software use. Any dependencies that a piece of code relies upon must be formally described, possibly at two levels: in the code itself (‘import’ in python, ‘#include’ in C) …

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    CW18 Mini-workshops and demos sessions

    07 February 2024

    … : Vincent Knight, Cardiff University. Where : M/0.40. This workshop will introduce participants to LaTeX … Code is Science - open source scientific code manifesto … A Registry for Research Software Repositories Time : Tuesday 27 March 2016, 15:15 - …

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    The Recomputation Manifesto

    09 July 2013

    … been significant pressure for scientists to make their code open, but this is not enough. Even if I hired the only postdoc who can get the code to work, she might have forgotten the exact details of … to make experiments recomputable than not to Tools and repositories can help recomputation become standard The …

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    CarpentryCon@Home: Challenges and Opportunities in transitioning meetings online

    26 November 2020

    … on Unsplash By Emily Lescak (Code for Science & Society, United States), Rachael … formed organically. A year-long idea challenge Open Repositories 2021 (instead of a conference networking … Conference Organisers accountable We discussed a code of conduct or set of expectations for scientific …

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