news – ASCL.net

Did you know you can download all the ASCL’s entries? You can! If you want all accepted entries: https://ascl.net/code/json

If you want particular fields, use an API query. This query brings up ASCL ID, title, bibcode, and when the entry was last updated.
https://ascl.net/api/search/?q=abstract:%22%22&fl=ascl_id,title,bibcode,time_updated

Want only entries that list a preferred citation? This will do it: https://ascl.net/api/search/?q=citation_method:%22.%22&fl=ascl_id,title,bibcode,citation_method

Find more info on our API here: https://github.com/teuben/ascl-tools/tree/master/API

If you’d like to know more about our metadata schema, please see this page: https://ascl.net/wordpress/about-ascl/metadata-schema/

You can also search ADS (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu) for ASCL entries by searching for bibstem:ascl.soft
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibstem%3Aascl.soft&sort=date%20desc%2C%20bibcode%20desc&p_=0

Click the ADS Explore button on screen right and you can play with all kinds of info about ASCL entries, including citation metrics and concept clouds. Is there something else you’d like to see, another way you’d like ASCL entry data? Please let us know!

This week, I’m attending and speaking at the ESO-sponsored Reproducibility and Open Science in Astronomy workshop. The first day was fabulous! The workshop runs through Thursday.

My talk is Opening the computational box: software sharing and the ASCL, and the abstract and links to resources mentioned in the talk are below.

Though computational methods are widely used in many disciplines, many researchers do not share the source code they develop, making their research difficult to verify and replicate. This presentation focuses on what software users and authors can do to share codes effectively, increase research reproducibility, and meet new requirements established by funders and journals. It will also cover how the Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) improves the transparency of science by registering research code, its efforts to increase software findability, and how astronomers can get credit for their codes and better support the research record.

Slides (PDF)