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)

Journals

Journal of Open Source Software (JORS)

Astronomy and Computing (A&C)

SoftwareX

Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)

Computing and Software for Big Science

Research Notes of the AAS

Change leaders, guidelines, and tools

SciCodes/Nine Best Practices for Software Registries and Repositories

FORCE11/FORCE11 Software Citation Principles

Research Data Alliance/FAIR for Research Software (FAIR4RS) WG

CodeMeta/CodeMeta generator

CITATION file format (CFF)/CFF INIT

CiteAs

FAIR principles

Social coding sites and archival services

Bitbucket

GitLab

GitHub

Software Heritage

Figshare

Zenodo

Other resources and fun links

Asclepias

arXiv/arXiv Next Generation

DataCite

All ASCL entries in JSON

ASCL dashboard

Generating software metadata files from an ASCL entry:
codemeta.json example
CITATION.cff example

How many GitHub repos have CITATON.cff files/codemeta.json files?