How Paris-Saclay University, through its Data, Algorithm, and Code Administrator (ADAC) Cédric Mercier, manages institutional research data and code. Read about their strategy and new Software Heritage sponsorship.
The Netherlands eScience Center’s Research Software Directory (RSD) adopted the Software Heritage Identifier (SWHID) to ensure source code is archived for the long term.
A skills shortage limits the future of tech in Europe. In a white paper from the Eclipse Foundation, Roberto Di Cosmo argues that open source can offer a fix.
Les bibliothèques font progresser l’enseignement, la recherche et l’apprentissage en fournissant des ressources, en facilitant la découverte et en offrant des conseils spécialisés. Le code source des logiciels devenant de…
Bastien Guerry, the former French Chief Free Software Officer, discusses his shift to Software Heritage. His core insight: « Policies without products are empty, products without policies are blind. » Read the full interview on building the bridge between policy and infrastructure.
CodeCommons is testing the limits of swh-fuse using large-scale clusters. Preliminary experiments ran on the 10,000-core Kraken cluster. The system validated performance by hitting an optimal file storage rate of 30,000 reads per second and sustained 8,000 file writes per second.
Software Heritage is participating in Inria’s LLM4Code challenge, a strategic initiative aimed at building reliable and productive code assistants powered by Large Language Models (LLMs).
Our newest Ambassador Nika Maltar is a digital conservator coordinating the Software Collection at the Technisches Museum Wien. Her journey, from preserving internet-native art to becoming a Software Heritage Ambassador, highlights why community-driven FOSS tools are essential for saving code—the engine of our digital heritage—from decay.
Every new mirror for the Software Heritage archive is a step forward for digital preservation. The newest one is in Greece with GRNET.
Academic software has grown exponentially. Software Heritage Archive data shows where it’s being created, what languages are used, and the crisis in licensing.
