{"id":199,"date":"2018-12-13T22:23:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ma-graph.org\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:03:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:03:40","slug":"use-case","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/semrepo.org\/index.php\/use-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SemRepo provides an important infrastructure for large-scale analysis of software within the broader scientific research ecosystem. <br><br>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; <strong>see <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/faerber-lab\/SemRepo\/tree\/main\/usecase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reproducibility and Sustainability<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also evaluate SemRepo through a set of non-trivial <strong>competency questions; see <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/faerber-lab\/SemRepo\/tree\/main\/CQs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CQs<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other potential use cases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>End-to-end research research provenance reconstruction across repositories and publications.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Analyze implementation patterns and maintenance practices across research domains and topics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Analyze collaboration patterns through contributor\u2013repository graphs and team activity signals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bridge research and industry by identifying open-source implementations of academic work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discover expertise based on real code contributions, languages used, and package dependencies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monitor technology trends and software adoption across research domains in real time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reproducibility and sustainability analysis of research software at scale by linking scholarly articles to their active GitHub repositories and development metrics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-199","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semrepo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semrepo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semrepo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semrepo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semrepo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/semrepo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/semrepo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semrepo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}