论文标题
当开源社区与Covid-19：Covid-19的特征-19主题github存储库时
When the Open Source Community Meets COVID-19: Characterizing COVID-19 themed GitHub Repositories
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论文摘要
自从Covid-19大流行病爆发开始以来，跨学科领域的研究人员一直共同努力应对这场危机。开源社区在应对大流行方面起着至关重要的作用，这本质上是一个协作过程。在研究社区中创建和共享许多相关数据集，工具，软件，深度学习模型，并以巨大的努力创建和共享。但是，COVID-19的主题开源项目尚未系统地研究，我们仍未意识到开源社区如何在实践中如何帮助COMPAT COVID-19。为了填补这一空白，在本文中，我们迈出了第一步，在Github（最受欢迎的协作平台之一Github）中研究了Covid-19的主题存储库。直到2020年7月，我们已收集了超过67K Covid-19的主题GitHub存储库。然后，我们从许多方面进行了特征，并将其分为六个类别。我们进一步研究了贡献者的贡献模式，以及存储库的发展和维护模式。这项研究阐明了采用开源技术和资源的有希望的方向，以迅速解决全球公共卫生紧急情况，并揭示了现有的改进挑战。
Ever since the beginning of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from interdisciplinary domains have worked together to fight against the crisis. The open source community, plays a vital role in coping with the pandemic which is inherently a collaborative process. Plenty of COVID-19 related datasets, tools, software, deep learning models, are created and shared in research communities with great efforts. However, COVID-19 themed open source projects have not been systematically studied, and we are still unaware how the open source community helps combat COVID-19 in practice. To fill this void, in this paper, we take the first step to study COVID-19 themed repositories in GitHub, one of the most popular collaborative platforms. We have collected over 67K COVID-19 themed GitHub repositories till July 2020. We then characterize them from a number of aspects and classify them into six categories. We further investigate the contribution patterns of the contributors, and development and maintenance patterns of the repositories. This study sheds light on the promising direction of adopting open source technologies and resources to rapidly tackle the worldwide public health emergency in practice, and reveals existing challenges for improvement.
