arfon
commented
4 years ago Hi @clelange, many thanks for your enquiry. I think this is likely out of scope for a couple of reasons:
- Library size: While this looks to be useful, it looks to me like it would likely fall into our 'minor utility' category.
- Scope: Tools that help researchers publish their work are generally considered out of scope for us too.
Quoting from the submission requirements/scope section of our docs:
JOSS publishes articles about research software. This definition includes software that: solves complex modeling problems in a scientific context (physics, mathematics, biology, medicine, social science, neuroscience, engineering); supports the functioning of research instruments or the execution of research experiments; extracts knowledge from large data sets; offers a mathematical library, or similar.
clelange
Dear JOSS team,
I would like to enquire whether hepdata_lib would qualify for publication in JOSS. hepdata_lib is a python (2.7+) library to help researchers get their publication results, i.e. plots and tables, into HEPData, the "repository for publication-related High-Energy Physics data". hepdata_lib hereby provides an essential tool to convert several different formats such as a large number of ROOT objects, but also simple text files, into the YAML format required by HEPData, creating an upload-ready archive. In addition, documentation including example notebooks are provided. The tool is under MIT license and actively being developed.
Thank you for your time and consideration!