Transcript Astrophysics Source Code Library Making scientist software discoverable Alice Allen ASCL, Editor 06/25/15 CUA Assumptions Software is important in research Research software should be available “… anything less than release.

Astrophysics Source
Code Library
Making scientist software
discoverable
Alice Allen
ASCL, Editor
06/25/15 CUA
Assumptions
Software is important in research
Research software should be
available
“… anything less than release of actual source
code is an indefensible approach for any
scientific results that depend on
computation...”
Ince, Hatton, & Graham-Cumming, The case for open computer
programs, Nature, v. 482, Feb. 23, 2012
ASCL.net
Code entry
Code entry
ascl ID
Code entry
Name of code
Code entry
Code authors
Code entry
Description of code
Code entry
Download site for code
Code entry
Refereed paper describing/using code
Code entry
bibcode
Code entry
Link to discussion thread
Number of times record has been viewed
Home page
Home page
10 newest codes in reverse order
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Browse
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With or without abstract
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Number of code entries at
year end, 2010 - 2014
974
Number of code entries
1000
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567
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374
124
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
No one can assume that valuable
innovations will pop up magically
in the public domain if their
inventors received no reward for
their labor and capital.
-Richard Epstein
Percentage of ASCL entries
in ADS with citations
18.0%
15.3%
16.0%
14.0%
12.2%
12.0%
10.0%
8.0%
7.5%
6.0%
4.0%
2.0%
0.0%
Jan-14
Jan-15
present
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