SemRepo provides an important infrastructure for large-scale analysis of software within the broader scientific research ecosystem.
To show its utility, we conduct an empirical, real-world reproducibility-auditing use case on a sample of 20,000 repositories from SemRepo linked to scientific publications; see Reproducibility and Sustainability.
We also evaluate SemRepo through a set of non-trivial competency questions; see CQs.
Other potential use cases:
- End-to-end research research provenance reconstruction across repositories and publications.
- Analyze implementation patterns and maintenance practices across research domains and topics
- Analyze collaboration patterns through contributor–repository graphs and team activity signals.
- Bridge research and industry by identifying open-source implementations of academic work.
- Discover expertise based on real code contributions, languages used, and package dependencies.
- Monitor technology trends and software adoption across research domains in real time.
- Reproducibility and sustainability analysis of research software at scale by linking scholarly articles to their active GitHub repositories and development metrics.