Article update with the links to the final version of the EOSC SIRS Report published on December 7th 2020 Software is, together with articles and data, a key ingredient of academic research, in all fields, and access to the source code of computer programs is a pillar of Open Science, […]
Software Heritage’s long term goal is to archive the publicly available source code of all software ever written. To fulfill this mission it is essential to build adapters to track and ingest source code from the countless locations where it is made available. We are delighted to see growing awareness […]
Supporting Open Science and reproducibility of research is part of our mission, and we are excited to announce that the Image Processing On Line journal (IPOL) has decided to deposit systematically in the Software Heritage archive all the software artifacts associated to the articles it publishes. IPOL is an Open […]
Software, and software source code in particular, is a pillar of modern research, and a stepping stone for Open Science. It must be properly archived, referenced, described and cited in order to build a stable and long lasting corpus of scientific knowledge. Treating software as a first class citizen… And […]
Software Heritage is a long term effort to build a common infrastructure to collect, preserve and share the source code of all software publicly available. We are delighted to share some great news about the intrinsic identifiers, called SWHIDs, that the Software Heritage archive provides for the tens of billions […]
A few months ago, experts from all around the world convened at UNESCO headquarters signed the Paris Call on Software Source Code, calling for action to preserve software source code, that has become an essential part of our cultural, technical and scientific heritage. Our mission at Software Heritage is precisely […]
On july 4th 2018 was unveiled the French national plan for Open Science, that identifies Software Heritage as one key initiative to support. Today we are delighted to welcome the French Ministry of Research as our first gold sponsor, contributing effectively to our efforts. We are very grateful for this […]
We are excited to have Software Heritage as one of the pilot initiatives aimed at bringing valuable tools and services to European researchers. Referencing and preserving massive collections of software source code, and the capability to link these to publications, will be an extremely effective addition to the EOSC service […]
Software Heritage allows to archive seamlessly your research software artifacts, and also to add to your research articles precise references to specific versions of the source code, down to fragments of individual source files. This allows to enhance significantly the experience of the reviewers of your work (for example, the […]
It was fifty years ago, July 20th 1969. Six hundred million people all over the world were holding their breath watching on television the blurry black and white images of the first manned spacecraft landing on the moon: I was one of them, and I will never forget the huge […]
