As we enter 2023, we publish, as usual, our annual report on the past year. We are excited to announce that this is now available as a → standalone document ←, making it easier to grasp the breadth of the mission, follow the progress made and share it with a broader audience. In 2022, we […]
We are pleased to share that a research software workshop will be held as part of the RDA P20 plenary in Gothenburg and online, on Friday, March 24th. The workshop is organized by partners from the two European projects FAIR-IMPACT and FAIRCORE4OSC; Software Heritage is a partner in the projects to increase recognition of research […]
The long term mission of Software Heritage is to collect, preserve, and share all publicly available software in source code form, serving a variety of needs ranging from cultural heritage to industry and research. On November 2021 we celebrated 5 years since the public unveiling in June 2016 and renewed the agreement with UNESCO. At the end of 2022 the Software Heritage archive […]
We are proud to announce that the Software Heritage technical Roadmap for 2023 is out! View roadmap 2023 in SWH documentation View roadmap 2023 in GitLab 2022 Roadmap review The year 2022 has been mostly dedicated to expand the archive and move towards major infrastructure evolutions, including the following achievements: Support of new forges and […]
We are excited to announce that the SHWAP Days – Software Heritage Acquisition Process Days – 2022 webpage is now live! SWHAP Days 2022 was a two-days event held on the 19th and the 20th of October 2022 in Paris resulting from the collaboration between Software Heritage and UNESCO. The event was organized with the […]
We are delighted to introduce our first ambassador in 2023, Violaine Louvet. Violaine is a research engineer in scientific computing. She works at the Jean Kuntzmann Laboratory, a research unit dedicated to applied mathematics after being the director of the Grenoble Alpes Research Scientific Computing and Data Infrastructure. She contributes to the French Committee for […]
We are delighted to announce that Software Heritage development and operations are now done on our own GitLab instance. It will improve our workflow and enable easier contributions from all interested in preserving software history. Thanks to the efforts of our sysadmin team, helped by Open Tech Strategies, we were able to smoothly transition from […]
We are delighted to introduce our 23rd ambassador, Gilmary Gallon, senior research and innovation associate. After an education orientated toward the pharmaceutical industry and a PhD in Chemistry and physicochemistry of bio-based materials intended for health application, Gilmary Gallon shifted away from academia to the world of private research and development. Nevertheless, his experience in […]
We are delighted to introduce our 22nd ambassador, Joenio Marques da Costa. Joenio is a research Software Engineer at LISIS, a social science research laboratory. He works as a backend developer on the CorTexT platform and Risis Core Facility (RCF) project, and in a more general way, he strives to ensure the sustainability of the […]
Software Heritage is an ambitious nonprofit, entirely Free/Open-Source Software (FOSS) initiative that aims at collecting, organizing, preserving for the very long term, and sharing all publicly available software in source code form, together with the corresponding complete development history where available. We are very excited to announce the launch of SWHAP Days, a two-day workshop […]
