diff --git a/papers/codemeta.json b/papers/codemeta.json
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+{
+ "@context": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codemeta/codemeta/master/codemeta.jsonld",
+ "@type": "Code",
+ "author": [
+ {
+ "@id": "0000-0002-8717-6046",
+ "@type": "Person",
+ "email": "davidhendriks93@gmail.com",
+ "name": "David Hendriks",
+ "affiliation": "University of Surrey, Astrophysics research group"
+ },
+ {
+ "@id": "0000-0003-0378-4843",
+ "@type": "Person",
+ "email": "r.izzard@surrey.ac.uk",
+ "name": "Robert Izzard",
+ "affiliation": "University of Surrey, Astrophysics research group"
+ }
+ ],
+ "identifier": "",
+ "codeRepository": "https://gitlab.com/binary_c/binary_c-python",
+ "datePublished": "2022-06-02",
+ "dateModified": "2022-06-02",
+ "dateCreated": "2022-06-02",
+ "description": "Framework to interface with binary_c and generate populations of star systems through population synthesis.",
+ "keywords": "Python, Astrophysics, stellar evolution, population synthesis",
+ "license": "GPL v3.0",
+ "title": "binary_c-python",
+ "version": "v0.9.2"
+}
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diff --git a/papers/generate.rb b/papers/generate.rb
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+#!/usr/bin/ruby
+
+# For an OO language, this is distinctly procedural. Should probably fix that.
+require 'json'
+
+details = Hash.new({})
+
+capture_params = [
+ { :name => "title", :message => "Enter project name." },
+ { :name => "url", :message => "Enter the URL of the project repository." },
+ { :name => "description", :message => "Enter the (short) project description." },
+ { :name => "license", :message => "Enter the license this software shared under. (hit enter to skip)\nFor example MIT, BSD, GPL v3.0, Apache 2.0" },
+ { :name => "doi", :message => "Enter the DOI of the archived version of this code. (hit enter to skip)\nFor example http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.828487" },
+ { :name => "keywords", :message => "Enter keywords that should be associated with this project (hit enter to skip)\nComma-separated, for example: turkey, chicken, pot pie" },
+ { :name => "version", :message => "Enter the version of your software (hit enter to skip)\nSEMVER preferred: http://semver.org e.g. v1.0.0" }
+]
+
+puts "I'm going to try and help you prepare some things for your JOSS submission"
+puts "If all goes well then we'll have a nice codemeta.json file soon..."
+puts ""
+puts "************************************"
+puts "* First, some basic details *"
+puts "************************************"
+puts ""
+
+# Loop through the desired captures and print out for clarity
+capture_params.each do |param|
+ puts param[:message]
+ print "> "
+ input = gets
+
+ details[param[:name]] = input.chomp
+
+ puts ""
+ puts "OK, your project has #{param[:name]}: #{input}"
+ puts ""
+end
+
+puts ""
+puts "************************************"
+puts "* Experimental stuff *"
+puts "************************************"
+puts ""
+
+puts "Would you like me to try and build a list of authors for you?"
+puts "(You need to be running this script in a git repository for this to work)"
+print "> (Y/N)"
+answer = gets.chomp
+
+case answer.downcase
+when "y", "yes"
+
+ # Use git shortlog to extract a list of author names and commit counts.
+ # Note we don't extract emails here as there's often different emails for
+ # each user. Instead we capture emails at the end.
+
+ git_log = `git shortlog --summary --numbered --no-merges`
+
+ # ["252\tMichael Jackson", "151\tMC Hammer"]
+ authors_and_counts = git_log.split("\n").map(&:strip)
+
+ authors_and_counts.each do |author_count|
+ count, author = author_count.split("\t").map(&:strip)
+
+ puts "Looks like #{author} made #{count} commits"
+ puts "Add them to the output?"
+ print "> (Y/N)"
+ answer = gets.chomp
+
+ # If a user chooses to add this author to the output then we ask for some
+ # additional information including their email, ORCID and affiliation.
+ case answer.downcase
+ when "y", "yes"
+ puts "What is #{author}'s email address? (hit enter to skip)"
+ print "> "
+ email = gets.chomp
+
+ puts "What is #{author}'s ORCID? (hit enter to skip)"
+ puts "For example: http://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000"
+ print "> "
+ orcid = gets.chomp
+
+ puts "What is #{author}'s affiliation? (hit enter to skip)"
+ print "> "
+ affiliation = gets.chomp
+
+
+ details['authors'].merge!(author => { 'commits' => count,
+ 'email' => email,
+ 'orcid' => orcid,
+ 'affiliation' => affiliation })
+
+ when "n", "no"
+ puts "OK boss..."
+ puts ""
+ end
+ end
+when "n", "no"
+ puts "OK boss..."
+ puts ""
+end
+
+puts "Reticulating splines"
+
+5.times do
+ print "."
+ sleep 0.5
+end
+
+puts ""
+puts "Generating some JSON goodness..."
+
+# TODO: work out how to use some kind of JSON template here.
+# Build the output list of authors from the inputs we've collected.
+output_authors = []
+
+details['authors'].each do |author_name, values|
+ entry = {
+ "@id" => values['orcid'],
+ "@type" => "Person",
+ "email" => values['email'],
+ "name" => author_name,
+ "affiliation" => values['affiliation']
+ }
+ output_authors << entry
+end
+
+# TODO: this is currently a static template (written out here). It would be good
+# to do something smarter here.
+output = {
+ "@context" => "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codemeta/codemeta/master/codemeta.jsonld",
+ "@type" => "Code",
+ "author" => output_authors,
+ "identifier" => details['doi'],
+ "codeRepository" => details['url'],
+ "datePublished" => Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"),
+ "dateModified" => Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"),
+ "dateCreated" => Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"),
+ "description" => details['description'],
+ "keywords" => details['keywords'],
+ "license" => details['license'],
+ "title" => details['title'],
+ "version" => details['version']
+}
+
+File.open('codemeta.json', 'w') {|f| f.write(JSON.pretty_generate(output)) }