[PRE REVIEW]: Potnia: A Python library for the conversion of transliterated ancient texts to Unicode

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Submitting author: !--author-handle-->@etour-unimelb<!--end-author-handle-- (Emily Tour) Repository: https://github.com/AncientNLP/potnia.git Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): main Version: v0.3.0 Editor: !--editor-->@arfon<!--end-editor-- Reviewers: Pending Managing EiC: Arfon Smith

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Software report:

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Commit count by author:

   132  Robert Turnbull
    58  Emily Tour
    38  Kabir Manandhar Shrestha
     7  etour-unimelb
     1  dependabot[bot]

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 1628

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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License info:

✅ License found: Apache License 2.0 (Valid open source OSI approved license)

[arfon]

@editorialbot assign me as editor

👋 @samhforbes – I'll take this paper as it's a PyCon AU submission.

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Assigned! @arfon is now the editor

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

✅ OK DOIs

- 10.1162/coli_a_00481 is OK
- 10.1109/MAHC.2024.3351948 is OK
- 10.5281/zenodo.10021513 is OK
- 10.5281/zenodo.5090923 is OK
- 10.18653/v1/P19-1303 is OK
- 10.1145/3593431 is OK
- 10.1073/pnas.2003794117 is OK
- 10.36824/2020-graf-cacc is OK
- 10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.07.415 is OK
- 10.1108/eb026567 is OK
- 10.1080/00437956.1953.11659466 is OK
- 10.21105/joss.04886 is OK

🟡 SKIP DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: Image and Interpretation: Using Artificial Intelli...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: A Dataset of Mycenaean Linear B Sequences
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Sefaria: A Living Library of Jewish Texts Online
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Transliterating English in Arabic
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Documents in Mycenaean Greek
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Cuneify
- No DOI given, and none found for title: UnicodeConverter
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Anatolian Hieroglyphics (Luwian) generation
- No DOI given, and none found for title: The Ras Shamra Tablet Inventory
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
- No DOI given, and none found for title: DIN 31635: Transliteration of the Arabic alphabet

❌ MISSING DOIs

- None

❌ INVALID DOIs

- doi:10.1515/zac-2020-0018 is INVALID (failed connection)

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@etour-unimelb – due to the relatively small size of this code, the editors will now discuss if it meets the substantial scholarly effort criterion for review by JOSS. We should get back to you sometime next week.

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:point_right::page_facing_up: Download article proof :page_facing_up: View article proof on GitHub :page_facing_up: :point_left:

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Submission flagged for editorial review.

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[rbturnbull]

@etour-unimelb – due to the relatively small size of this code, the editors will now discuss if it meets the substantial scholarly effort criterion for review by JOSS. We should get back to you sometime next week.

Dear @arfon - thanks for the message. Sorry we didn't respond until now. Yes, the code only has about 425 lines of Python code (in the main package plus tests). But a lot of the work in the project is in the YAML files which tell the package how to run and this is more than 2000 lines of code. We designed it so that YAML reduces the amount of code needed in Python and also makes it more accessible for domain experts to work with different languages. The PyConAU mentor team who did a pre-review of the code made a note about this in their recommendations to JOSS. Do you have their recommendation letter?

[rbturnbull]

I've fixed the broken DOI now.