Presentations

SciCodes monthly meetings often include short presentations (~10 minutes) to explore new technologies and projects of interest to the membership, describe how the participants of the Consortium are helping to push forward best practices in different communities, and share their work with other members. Presentations are recorded and made publicly available on the SciCodes YouTube channel.

Upcoming presentations

• Automated FAIR assessment of the CSDMS Model Repository and steps forward for semi-automated assessments. Tony Castranova, CUAHSI (August, 2025)

Previous presentations

• CodeMeticulous: Pragmatic software metadata conversion. Scott Foster, Research Software Engineer, Arizona State University’s School of Complex Adaptive Systems (June, 2025)
• A Path Forward to Improve Software Citation. Rebecca Ringuette, Heliophysics Digital Resource Library, NASA GSFC (April, 2025)
• Community infrastructure to further open research software. Katherine Skinner, Invest in Open Infrastructure (February, 2025) (full report; slides)
• The United States Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE). Sandra Gesing, Executive Director, US-RSE (January, 2025) (web)
• Episciences Overlay Journals. Raphaël Tournoy, Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (November, 2024) (slides)
• The cost of computational reproducibility. Peer Limor, Yale University and Research Data Alliance (October, 2024)
• SGX3: Diversity of science gateways & consulting roots, Claire Stirm, San Diego Supercomputing Centre (September, 2024)
• Notebooks Now! Brian Sedora and Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, (July, 2024) (link)
• Creating a software metadata infrastructure for Heliophysics software registration. Julie Barnum, University of Colorado Boulder (May 2024)
• SBGrid: a refined software infrastructure that includes a large library of scientific applications. Piotr Sliz, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School (March, 2024) (link)
• ShowYourWork!: A workflow for reproducible and open scientific articles, Kaze Wong, Flatiron Institute (February 2024) (code repository)
• From Metrics to ML: using ML for metadata curation and spam detection, Allen Lee, CoMSES Net Computational Model Library (January 2024). Allen discussed using machine learning data curation workflows for entity resolution and spam detection.
• CodeMeta v3, Morane Gruenpeter, Software Heritage (October 2023). Morane provided an overview of CodeMeta v3 in advance of a workshop focusing on crosswalking metadata.
• IGA: InvenioRDM GitHub Archiver, Mike Hucka, Caltech Library (September 2023). Mike provided an overview and demo of the InvenioRDM GitHub Archiver, which easily creates InvenioRDM records for GitHub releases through the command line or a GitHub action. (slides)
• Open-source Scientific Software and Service Repository, Kay Graf, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (July 2023).  Kay presented the Open-source Scientific Software and Service Repository (OSSR), a sustainable open-access repository of scientific software, services, and datasets for the astro-particle-physics-related communities.
• BioImage Informatics Index, Perrine Paul-Gilloteaux, SFR-Santé, INSERM, CNRS, UNIV Nantes, CHU Nantes, Nantes, France (June 2023). Perrine gave an introduction to the BioImage Informatics Index.
• The FAIR-BioRS Guidelines for Making Biomedical Research Software compliant with the FAIR4RS Principles, Bhavesh Patel, California Medical Innovations Institute (April 2023) Bhavesh gave an introduction to the FAIR-BioRS Guidelines.
• eScience Research Software Directory, Maaike de Jong, Netherlands eScience Center (March 2023). Maaike gave an introduction to the Research Software Directory
• Overview of Identifiers.org, Renato Juacaba Neto, EMBL-EBI (February 2023). Renato gave an introduction to Identifiers.org.
• DOE Code Updates, Natalie Barnett, Department of Energy (January 2023). Natalie gave updates on new features added to DOE Code. 
• Software Citation Workshop Updates, Daina Bouquin, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (January 2023). Daina gave updates on a recent software citation workshop.
• CodeMeta Governance, Morane Gruenpeter, INRIA (September 2022). Morane gave updates on governance plans for CodeMeta.
• CodeMeta: one level deeper?, Peter Teuben, UMD, ASCL (June 2022). Peter shared a proposal for CodeMeta changes.
• The WorkflowHub, A computational workflow registry, Carole Goble, The University of Manchester / ELIXR-UK (March, 2022). Carole gave an overview of the WorkflowHub and how this metadata-focused resource can be used to collect and re-run scientific workflows.
• Archive and promote open source code with HAL and Software Heritage, Alain Monteil, Inria (February, 2022). Alain gave an overview of the integration of HAL and Software Heritage. This provided software creators in France a better way to archive and promote their software.
• How to cite software tools?, Anita Brandrowski, University of California San Diego (February, 2022). Anita discussed how software is currently being cited and ways Research Resource ID’s can help. The presentation touched on the ways different software registries can interoperate, and promoted an excellent discussion of future collaborations.
• Research software review as part of the publication process, Ana Trisovic, Harvard University (October, 2021). Ana’s talk explored problems regarding research software review as part of the publication process and demonstrate projects and ideas to facilitate it. She also shared a link to the research paper “Update status of published research software“. (slides)
• WikiData, Daniel Garijo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (September, 2021). Daniel provided information on what WikiData is, its relationship to Wikipedia, how data are connected and their metadata are captured, and how to edit WikiData pages. (slides)
• The Citation File Format and Its Integrations, Stephan Druskat, German Aerospace Center (August, 2021). Stephan gave an overview of the citation file format (CITATION.cff) and its new integration with GitHub, Zenodo, and Zotero. This integration makes it easier than ever to specify how you want your software cited, and to cite the software you use. (slides)
• Asclepias Software Citation Broker, Alex Ioannidis, CERN (July, 2021). Alex introduced the Asclepias software citation broker, which finds and aggregates different citations methods (scientific paper, proceeding, registry listing, etc.) and presents the total number of citations for a software object.
• DOE CODE, Sara Studwell, DOE (July, 2021). Sara provided an overview of the DOE CODE repository, its mission, how software is added to it, and how to search the resource.
• Zenodo/InvenioRDM Codemeta Integration, Tom Morrell, Caltech (June, 2021). Tom presented the work he has been doing to enrich the software metadata stored by Zenodo, both through an external process and through improving Invenio, using the CodeMeta standard.
• SOMEF: Software Metadata Extraction Framework, Daniel Garijo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (March, 2021). In this talk Daniel presented SOMEF, a tool for automatically extracting machine-readable metadata from README files in GitHub and make them available in CodeMeta.
• CoMSES Net CodeMeta Support, Allen Lee, School of Complex Adaptative Systems, Arizona State University (February, 2021). In this talk, Allen provides an overview of how the CoMSES Net Computational Model Library is representing the metadata of their software entries in CodeMeta.