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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1064209

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Description

This Scientific Software Network Map viewer is part of an NSF-funded project (SciSIP: The Scientific Software Network Map) to map out the dependencies among scientific software packages. The goal is to help scientists monitor how the software they write is being used, so that they can focus updates and improvements on the most needed areas, understand more deeply how they are being used together, and to take credit for their contributions by being able to document how much their software is being used.

Related projects

scimapClient is an R package that sends usage packets to SNM from users who choose to install and enable it. rscraper is a python module that scrapes Github, CRAN, Bioconductor, and Scopus to feed SNM with data on R projects on Github and what packages they're using.

Related research papers

Some academic research related to this project can be found here:

• Howison, J. and Herbsleb, J. D. (2011). Scientific software production: incentives and collaboration. In Proceedings, Computer-Supported Collaborative Work Hangzhou, China, pp. 513-522.
• Howison, J. and Herbsleb, J. D. (2013). Incentives and integration in scientific software production, ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 459-470). San Antonio, TX.

Contacts

For further information contact

• Chris Bogart cbogart at cs dot cmu dot edu
• James Howison jhowison at ischool dot utexas dot edu
• Jim Herbsleb jdh at cs dot cmu dot edu

Development team

The project has been developed as MSIT-SE Practicum project at CMU. Modified and maintained by Chris Bogart.