It was a loud week at ASCL Central, what with a backhoe and a couple of Bobcats working outside, so I decamped to my office at UMD for a couple of days to get away from the noise and, especially, the diesel exhaust. It was also a productive week, with eighteen entries added to the ASCL, two records curated, and notification emails sent out. I submitted my proceedings paper for ADASS. A paper submitted in September came back from review, and we’ve started a series of writing sprints to address the reviewers’ concerns; the paper will be resubmitted before the end of the year. I also did some organizing work to prepare for this coming week’s FORCE2021 Hackathons; the SciCodes consortium hopes to make progress on several items during this event, which will be held on Monday and Friday. Come join us!

In the dawn’s early light, a lot of mud.

A busy week, but more on the organizing and writing side than actual work on the ASCL itself. One of the organizational tasks was for a Deep Dive webinar on software citation for FORCE2021; this is a dedicated session presented by the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group (SCIWG), and will be held on Tuesday, December 7 at 17:00 UTC. Several lightning talks will be presented on the work of the SCIWG, what challenges still exist, and work that is planned in the future, and then the floor will be opened for discussion among presenters and attendees. I wrote a first draft (which I expect is pretty close to the final draft) of a proceedings paper for last month’s ADASS meeting, this for the poster I presented. By “wrote,” I mean “mostly fought with LaTeX,” since that struggle took the majority of the time spent on the paper. On the ASCL itself, seven entries were curated and three new entries were staged.

This past week, fourteen new code entries were put into production, fourteen entries were curated, and three entries were staged. We also sent numerous emails to code authors. We’ve been working on increasing the number of codes added every month, and that effort is paying off, as you can see in the graph (from our dashboard) below. In 2017-2020, we averaged 21 codes/month; this year so far, we’re averaging almost 28 new entries/month.

We currently provide all of our public data in JSON and individual entries in both CITATION.cff and codemeta.json. This past week, we had some discussion with one of our developers about making all of our public data available in codemeta.json. We don’t have a date for doing this yet, but perhaps will make this change in time for the January AAS meeting.

This was the week before ADASS! The meeting this year is a hybrid meeting, with some attendees in Cape Town, and the others scattered all over the world. As much as I would love to be in Cape Town, I am attending virtually because of the pandemic. My poster this year involves but isn’t about the ASCL; instead, I’m presenting a poster about SciCodes.

Speaking of SciCodes, this week was our monthly meetings, so I spent time on them, but also had time for working on the ASCL. Random code of the day posts were scheduled through the end of the month and twenty entries were updated. Six new codes were staged, and two were submitted. This coming week, numerous ASCL-involved folks will be at ADASS, and I look forward to seeing them there!