Linking literature and software

Most ASCL code entries have one or more links to articles that either describe or use the software in that entry. ADS ingests this information to associate the code with relevant literature. For example, the entry for 2LPTIC: 2nd-order Lagrangian Perturbation Theory Initial Conditions includes a link for an MNRAS paper in the Appears in field:


Going to the ADS entry for this software shows that the code is associated with a paper underĀ Associated Articles:This, however, doesn’t tell you anything about the relationship between the article and the software. ADS and the ASCL have been working to improve this. The ASCL has been disambiguating these article links into Described in and Used in. At the ADS Hack Day event last month, ASCL provided ADS with disambiguated links for over 900 entries, and Carolyn Grant had these uploaded into ADS in a matter of minutes. (ADS folks are wizards, I tell you! Wizards! They work magic!!)

Currently, ASCL records appear the same, but for those records we have provided disambiguated article links, ADS displayed them as Described in and Used in, as you can see in the 2-DUST: Dust radiative transfer code entry, for which the ASCL lists two papers:

For ASCL records in which the Appears in link(s) have not been disambiguated, there is no change in how they are displayed in ADS. We have over 700 entries with article links still to be disambiguated and we continue this work; ADS will be ingesting the changes with their regular weekly ingest of ASCL data.

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