Back when RAM was precious, clever code reigned. Inria’s “Efficient Chain-Linking Algorithm” from the late 80s, now archived at Software Heritage, gives a peek into early computer vision’s elegant solutions.
Three questions for Software Heritage Ambassador Violaine Louvet about France’s new national research software catalog.
How Software Heritage and GNU Guix are meeting the challenge of reproducible research by ensuring the long-term availability and verification of software source code.
The ISO standard for the SWHID specification marks a major milestone in establishing a globally recognized framework for uniquely and permanently identifying software.
Software Heritage now offers built-in citation support, a significant step in acknowledging software as a legitimate research output.
About 30 Software Heritage ambassadors and superusers teamed up at our 2025 community workshop to design these rad retro-computing style posters.
A recent talk by Roberto Di Cosmo, Software Heritage co-founder, underscored the role of software preservation for the future of open science. Speaking at the University of São Paulo, Di Cosmo highlighted Software Heritage as the essential infrastructure for this very task, providing universal access to the source code that powers research.
More publishers are valuing research code. Dagstuhl now uses Software Heritage for archival, referencing and metadata. Learn how this improves citation and accessibility.
Stefano Zacchiroli discusses security, reproducibility, and data analysis in his new Chief Scientific Officer role.
OSPO-RADAR aims to solve isolated research code issues by building a platform to map, reveal, and make code accessible.
