arXiv AI

From Code Archival to Knowledge Graph: Bridging Software Heritage, COAR Notify and Wikidata

The paper introduces an end‑to‑end pipeline that harvests, validates, and models links between scholarly articles and their source code from journals such as JOSS, SoftwareX, and IPOL, as well as SIGMOD ARI reproducibility reports. It produces a curated set of 4,397 DOI‑repository pairs and defines two Wikidata‑based application profiles—one for articles and one for software—aligned with schema.org and CodeMeta. Using these profiles, the authors created 4,182 new Wikidata software items linked to their papers, while only 82 repositories were previously represented, and they demonstrate compatibility with the COAR Notify protocol for future live enrichment.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 11

INDRA: A New AI Tool for Exploring Tobacco, Fossil Fuel, and Chemical Industry Archives

INDRA is a research platform that integrates multiple archival collections—such as UCSF’s Industry Documents Library, Columbia and CUNY’s ToxicDocs, and Stanford’s SRITA—into a single, LLM‑readable corpus. It employs three safeguards: a closed evidentiary sandbox, real‑time provenance tagging, and a deterministic system‑level protocol to ensure that model outputs are clearly distinguished from archival evidence and from the model’s own inferences. The platform enables large‑language‑model‑powered investigations across these archives while keeping the conditions of knowledge production transparent and auditable.

By Daniel Akselrad, Robert N. Proctor
arXiv AI
Sep 16

AquiLLM: Evaluating Faithfulness in Open-Weight RAG-LLM Systems for Scientific Research

arXiv:2609.16519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific research increasingly relies on large, heterogeneous data sources, motivating interest in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems that...

By Bernie Boscoe, Srinath Saikrishnan, Vikram Seenivasan, Jack Stark, Andrew Lizarraga, Morgan Himes, Jonathan Soriano, PJ Allen, Tuan Do
arXiv AI
Sep 3

SpecMine: A Large-Scale Corpus of Spec-Driven Development Artifacts

SpecMine is a large-scale corpus that documents Spec-Driven Development (SDD) artifacts in public GitHub repositories. It includes a broad census of 470,795 spec files from 73,030 repositories linked to 17 tools, a focused census of 98,574 Kiro layout files from 12,910 repositories, and a sweep of 5,992 pull requests across 581 repositories that modify specs. The dataset provides enriched metadata, full commit histories, parsed document structures, and over 2.4 million typed references connecting specs to code, sibling documents, PRs, branches, and issues.

By Shyam Agarwal, Anmol Singhal, Travis Breaux, Bogdan Vasilescu
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Building a research-software catalog with a coding agent: from hackathon prototype to public deployment

The paper reports on building a research-software catalog using a coding agent, starting from a three‑day hackathon prototype and moving to public deployment. It details the engineering work needed—adversarial review, data‑quality checks, browser validation, and publication safeguards—to ensure reliable operation, noting that silent failures were more problematic than crashes. The authors then examine applying these lessons to a larger, human‑curated portal (MateriApps) that combines curated metadata, external documentation, vector search, and local language‑model generation, finding that explicit validation, monitoring, and repeated review remain essential for AI‑assisted software portals.

By Kazuyoshi Yoshimi, Satoshi Terasaki, Gotai Yamada
arXiv AI
Jul 8

Scientific Code Search at Scale: A Multi-Domain Dataset and Benchmark

arXiv:2607. 05443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientists increasingly rely on open-source tools to support their research workflows, yet discovering relevant software among over 600 million GitHub repositories remains challenging.

By Nishan Pantha, Pranath Reddy Kumbam, Sajil Awale, Pushwitha Krishnappa, Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian, Nidhi Jha, Emily Foshee, Ankur Kumar, Rachel Slank, Ashkbiz Danehkar, Rahul Ramachandran