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BrownDwarf / gollum

A microservice for programmatic access to precomputed synthetic spectral model grids in astronomy
https://gollum-astro.readthedocs.io/
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JOSS paper discussion #23

Closed gully closed 4 months ago

gully commented 2 years ago

Let's make a gollum paper!

Destination and bundling

The muler paper is destined to be submitted relatively soon, likely to JOSS (and possibly part of an affiliated AAS journals paper). See the muler issue for that discussion: https://github.com/OttoStruve/muler/issues/76

My inclination is to submit a standalone JOSS gollum paper. I've already started a paper.md file here: 6e950e8

The alternative paths would be either A) combine it with muler, or B) associate it with an affiliated AAS Journals paper. Option A seems a bit messy, and option B doesn't have a specific AAS journal paper in mind, since I see gollum as a general purpose tool/microservice. So option B would delay the publication, essentially indefinitely.

Timeline and things-to-do before submitting

In principle we could submit now-- the framework is working and is pretty good albeit imperfect.

The main thing I want to add before submitting is support for the full Sonora-Bobcat 2021 model grid (Marley et al. 2021) with metallicity support (Issue #6). My recommendation is to make adding this feature a priority.

We'd probably also want to add a tutorial or video screencast on how to use the dashboard. Getting up-and-running with the dashboard is tricky since it only works locally (does not work on Google Colab, for example), and requires the voluminous model grids in a certain directory structure. So showing the awesomeness of the dashboard without having to install is a key important step.

So that puts us around April/May 2022 for submission time. I'm okay with that, and it allows some new contributors a chance to join in before then.

gully commented 2 years ago

@sujayshankarUT and @Jiayi-Cao let's plan to submit the paper in the next coming weeks!

gully commented 2 years ago

@SujayShankarUT and I are working in this now!

gully commented 2 years ago

Let's add a screenshot of the dashboard to the paper!

gully commented 9 months ago

This got put on the back burner while we worked on blasé, but is now active again. @SujayShankar2001 will be leading this. Sujay, here is the documentation on how to get started: https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/