Pursuing our mission to collect, preserve and share the source code of all software ever written, 2019 was a year of great achievements for Software Heritage. Today is a good time to look back and talk about what has been accomplished in 2019 since our last activity report, and give some perspective on the future. […]
Today, we are excited to share the news that CNRS, a driving force in the Open Science movement that wants to render accessible to all the results of public research, has joined our growing community as a Platinum sponsor to build together the software pillar of Open Science putting software source code on a par […]
Supporting Open Science and reproducibility of research is part of our mission, and we are excited to announce that the journal eLife has decided to systematically save source code repositories in the Software Heritage archive containing all software artifacts associated with the published article. eLife is an open-access journal aiming to publish work of the […]
As announced few months ago, we received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support contributions from experts that want to help increase the coverage of the Sofware Heritage archive. Today, we are delighted to announce that a first subgrant has been awarded to Cottage Labs a software development consultancy with roots in […]
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, an important movement that wants to render accessible to all the results of public research. Supporting Open Science and reproducibility of research is part […]
Software Heritage’s mission is to collect, preserve and share the source code of all publicly available software, and in doing so, it is creating a one of a kind knowledge base about software development. The scientific community is increasingly interested in the new opportunities that this knowledge base creates for research, and we are delighted […]
When the popular Bitbucket code hosting platform decided to discontinue support for the Mercurial version control system, we announced that Software Heritage and Octobus were starting a collaboration to rescue and archive all 250.000 endangered public Mercurial repositories. This is a complex undertaking that requires deep expertise and involves various phases: rescuing all the repositories, […]
Subscribe to the video channel! At Software Heritage, we work hard to build the universal archive of software source code, and we want to keep you up to date on what’s new and help you make the most out of the archive. A few weeks ago, we were happy to introduce the Software Heritage Newsletter […]
Building a solid web of knowledge that lasts over time is of paramount importance for academia. A key component of this are the links between the different research outputs, and for this reason references, citations, and various systems of identifiers have been used for centuries, well before the computer era. These systems of identifiers come […]
Subscribe Source code is special: it’s executable knowledge that is meant to be human readable, by design. It’s an all time new in human history, and it deserves to become a first class citizen: as part of cultural heritage, as a pillar of Open Science in the scholarly world, as a key asset for […]
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 of the importance of this […]
