Industry Classification of GitHub Repositories Using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
arXiv:2607.06505v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GitHub hosts hundreds of millions of public repositories, but the platform exposes no native mapping from repositories to standardized industry sectors. This gap limits empirical work on the geography of innovation, the industrial composition of open-source production, and the diffusion of new technologies across economic sectors. We present NAICS-GH, a publicly released corpus of 6,588 GitHub repositories drawn from source pools covering the United States, the European Union, and Australia, each labeled with a 2-digit sector from the North Ame
The proliferation of open-source software and the increasing economic significance of digital innovation necessitate better tools for industrial classification and analysis.
This development provides a standardized method to classify GitHub repositories by industry, enabling deeper economic analysis of open-source contributions and technology diffusion.
Researchers and strategists can now more effectively map technological innovation within open source to specific economic sectors, both geographically and industrially.
- · Economic researchers
- · Policymakers
- · Open-source foundations
- · Data scientists
Improved understanding of the industrial composition and geography of open-source development.
More targeted policy interventions to foster innovation in specific sectors or regions based on open-source activity.
Potential for new financial instruments or investment strategies based on industry-specific open-source indicators.
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