The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) is a free online registry for software that have been used in research that has appeared in, or been submitted to, peer-reviewed publications. The ASCL is indexed by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and Web of Science's Data Citation Index (WoS DCI), and is citable by using the unique ascl ID assigned to each code. The ascl ID can be used to link to the code entry by prefacing the number with ascl.net (i.e., ascl.net/1201.001).

Prefix
ascl
Keywords
astrophysics and astronomy
Links
Homepage
Contact
Alice Allen   0000-0003-3477-2845
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Astrophysics Source Code Library should match this regular expression:
^[0-9\.]+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
1801.012   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Astrophysics Source Code Library should match this regular expression:
^ascl:[0-9\.]+$

Example CURIE
ascl:1801.012
Publications
2015 Looking before Leaping: Creating a Software Registry
Contributors
Metaregistry Astrophysics Source Code Library

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 5 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BioContext biocontext ASCL
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.wb0txg
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam ascl
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t ascl
re3data Registry of Research Data Repositories logo re3data r3d100011865
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 1801.012 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Astrophysics Source Code Library. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
Astrophysics Source Code Library ascl http://ascl.net/1801.012
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/ascl:1801.012
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/ascl:1801.012
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/ascl:1801.012