New resource: HEP-ASTRO-COSMO github repo to list public codes/tools used in these fields

• HEP-ASTRO-COSMO

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  HEP/Astroparticle/Astrophysics/Cosmology open source packages. Community effort. Physics people, unite!

Strictly as an observer based on what I see in the public github and twitter conversations, this new effort was started based on an idea by Gianfranco Bertone to have a GitHub repo managed directly the community (he mentioned that this is one in other fields), adding new qualifying items by merging pull requests. It's stated that this is for open-source codes/tools in HEP/Astro/Cosmo. They are just getting started and a number of conversations on the scope can be seen in the Issues section of the repo. They've been having discussions with ASCL (Peter Teuben) about how the two efforts relate; e.g., see the Collaboration with existing repositories issue thread. So the direction this new effort goes in is in formation.

• ascl-tools

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  Some tools to work with ASCL

ASCL is of course a quite mature resource that was founded over 20 years ago, currently having 2454 entries, which are citable. They even have an API. My own impression is that this new github repo has (at least initially) more of an HEP emphasis than does ASCL (several HEP-related entries that I see in the repo are not in ASCL). ASCL mentioned that they have a "requirement that software be used in refereed research or in research submitted for refereeing, we generally look for software in articles rather than at specific projects...We don't have an editor to explicitly cover journals such as JCAP and JHEP so miss codes that straddle that space." [source]

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