Category Archives: Software citation

Software Citation Implementation in Astronomy

Posted on March 5, 2018 by astrocompute

This week’s post is a repost of a  summary of a meeting I attended, held at the 231st AAS meeting in National Harbor, MD, January 2018. The original summary, prepared by Daina Bouquin and Arfon Smith, is at https://github.com/CfA-Library/Cite_Astro_Software/blob/master/whitepaper.md, and is … Continue reading →

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Brian Schmidt’s Keynote at ADASS XXV. October 27 2015.

Posted on October 26, 2015 by astrocompute

This year’s Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems conference (ADASS XXV) is being held in Sydney, Australia, hosted by CAASTRO. Nobel Laureate Brian Schmidt delivered a keynote address about the impact of software and data access on astronomy. Fifty years … Continue reading →

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Why Sustain Scientific Software?

Posted on October 16, 2015 by astrocompute

This is the title of the keynote address given by Matt Turk (University of Illinois) at the 3rd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE3), held in Boulder, CO, on September 28-29, 2015. This annual workshop aims to … Continue reading →

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Just How Should We Cite Astronomy Software?

Posted on August 7, 2015 by astrocompute

The central importance of software in astronomy is generating debates on issues such as how software should be cited, how credit should be accorded to software practitioners, and how software should be preserved and created. The American Astronomical Society (AAS) publishing … Continue reading →

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“Software Use in Astronomy: An Informal Survey” by Momcheva and Tollerud

Posted on July 27, 2015 by astrocompute

This the title of a paper by Ivelina Momcheva and Erik Tollerud that was recently posted on astro-ph at http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.03989.  Between December 2014 and February 2015, they carried out an informal survey about software use in astronomy,  marketed mainly through social … Continue reading →

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Toward a Framework for Evaluating Software Success

Posted on July 1, 2015 by astrocompute

Many of us in the astronomical software business have been debating the best way to evaluate the quality of software and its success within its user community. Here is one proposal submitted by a group of us to the Computational Science … Continue reading →

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Get Credit For Your Code: The Growth and Impact of the Astrophysics Source Code Library (Annual Report 2014)

Posted on March 28, 2015 by astrocompute

The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) recently published its 2014 report, and you can find it on-line at http://ascl.net/wordpress/?page_id=1337, along with reports from the previous two years. The 2014 report highlights the growth and impact of the ASCL on the … Continue reading →

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