The Living Ecosystems of Open Science

OPEN PULSE

Monitoring the living communities behind Open Science software.

Open Pulse is a platform that maps, connects and valorizes open-source software ecosystems emerging from research institutions. It captures development activity, community structure and semantic metadata beyond traditional publication metrics.

Public soon

git clone https://github.com/sdsc-ordes/open-pulse.git

Repositories

open-pulse (main repository)
Public soon. Core repository for community-network metrics and pipeline orchestration.
open-pulse-quickstart
Minimal setup to deploy and test Open Pulse quickly.
open-pulse-ontology
Semantic layer describing entities, roles and project relations.
open-pulse-crawler
Data collection service for software ecosystem and contributor signals.

News

1.01.26 Swissuniversities Programme Open Science II
PulseNext: Translating Research Software Impact Indicators into Actionable Narratives (EPFL - SDSC).
25.11.25 Open Pulse Mini Hackathon
10.10.25 Presentation at Swiss Open Academic Data Day (SOAD)
1.07.24 ETH Domain ORD Explore Grant: OpenPulse
Assessing Open Science community metrics for open source software (EPFL - SDSC).
15.03.23 Preliminary GitHub analysis project sponsored by EPFL Open Science

People

Carlos Vivar Rios SDSC Project Lead

Aruni Senaratne EPFL Open Science Project Lead
Laure Vancauwenberghe Senior Data Engineer, SDSC

Robin Franken Senior Knowledge and Data Engineer, SDSC
Eisha Mazhar UNIGE-SDSC Data Science Intern

Oksana Riba Head of ORDES Team
Gilles Dubochet Head of Open Science

Noémie Mazaré Former EPFL Open Science Project Lead

OPEN PULSE

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