Open Science Award for Open Source Research Software

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The Open Science Award for Open Source Research Software (French: Prix science ouverte du logiciel libre de la recherche) is a French scientific award given since 2022. The prize is part of the second National Plan for open science and rewards projects, teams and young researchers engaged in exemplary practices of management, dissemination and reuse of research data. It is awarded by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and Space[1].

The prize has four categories[2]:

  • The "Scientific and Technical" (Scientifique et technique) category rewards software that stands out for its scientific quality, methodological rigour and technical excellence.
  • The "Community" (Communauté) category highlights projects that have successfully built and nurtured an active community of users and contributors.
  • The "Documentation" category recognises software that offers exemplary documentation facilitating use, adoption and contribution to the project.
  • The "Jury's Favourite" (Coup de cœur du jury) category rewards an exemplary project combining several of these dimensions.

In each category, the jury awards a main prize as well as a "rising star" (espoir) award for promising projects, typically started less than five years ago.

Winners

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Year "Scientific and Technical" category "Community" category "Documentation" category "Jury's Favourite" category References
2022 [4]
2023
  • Hyphe, software for creating, cleaning and categorising "web corpora" as networks of links between websites.
  • Fink, set of services for the astrophysics community enabling the study of variable and transient phenomena.
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2024
  • Ichthyop,[13] simulation software for organism propagation in ocean currents.
  • Rising star: PyMoDAQ,[14] free solution for data acquisition via sensors.
  • PARI/GP,[15] computer algebra system for number theory research.
  • Rising star: archeoViz,[16] software for spatial representation and analysis of archaeological data.
  • SOFA Framework,[19] interactive mechanical simulation platform.
  • Rising star: SPAM,[20] software for quantitative analysis of 2D and 3D imaging data applied to mechanics.
[21]
2025
  • GNU MPFR,[22] free library for arbitrary-precision floating-point computing.
  • Rising star: Qumin,[23] Python package for quantitative modelling of language inflectional morphology.
  • Aladin Lite,[24] interactive sky atlas for visualising astronomical data.
  • Rising star: DifferentiationInterface.jl,[25] Julia library providing a unified interface for automatic differentiation algorithms.
  • Pharo,[26] free programming language descended from Smalltalk, where everything is an object.
  • Rising star: NeuRon Virtualizer,[27] tool for simulating the electrical behaviour of peripheral nerves.
  • HyperSpy,[28] open source Python framework for interactive visualisation and analysis of multi-dimensional data.
  • Rising star: SMASH,[29] numerical simulation library for hydrologic phenomena.
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