We are delighted to announce a research partnership with CAST to create a provenance index for all the source code stored in the Software Heritage archive, that will support a greater understanding of the evolution of software development over time, and enable a wealth of advanced uses of the archive. Continuing Software Heritage mission The […]
A shared mission and a continuing collaboration with UNESCO In April 2017, Inria signed with UNESCO a framework agreement on the preservation and sharing of the source codes of software, centered on our mission to collect, preserve and share all the available source code. In June 2018, at UNESCO Headquarters, we opened to the […]
Software Heritage is now open for your source code submissions! Search engines use something called a Web crawler to systematically “crawl,” or look through, the Web in order to create indexes that can be searched through. In order to populate the Software Heritage Archive we also use a crawler, but unfortunately, unlike for usual […]
Our ambition is to collect, preserve, and share the source code of all software ever written. In the very intense year 2018 that has passed since our last activity report we have moved forward at a steady pace, and now is a good moment to recall the key accomplishments, putting them in perspective in the […]
We are excited to announce today that FossID, one of our early sponsors, has decided to work with us to establish the first independent mirror of the Software Heritage archive, a very important step forward in making Software Heritage a resilient common infrastructure. A mission at the service of humankind The clearly stated mission of […]
GitLab, a major web-based, public git repository forge, is now fully archived into the Software Heritage archive. We will continue to periodically update this section of the archive, to keep it up-to-date with changes pushed to repositories hosted on gitlab.com. GitLab is used by NASA, CERN, and the GNOME Foundation. The software powering gitlab.com is […]
We had an article published in the October 2018 edition of Communications of the ACM. Communications of the ACM is the Association of Computing Machinery’s print and online publication. With over 100,000 ACM members receiving Communications, it is one of the “leading print and online publication for the computing and information technology fields.” “Building the […]
We’re pleased to share that the Python Package Index (PyPI) is now integrated with Software Heritage: all PyPI packages have been archived and PyPI is now being tracked to timely archive new Python package releases as they become available. PyPI is a volunteer run repository of nearly 1.5 million Python packages. All of these packages are now also […]
Thanks to a collaboration between Software Heritage (SWH), HAL-Inria and the CCSD, HAL is opening its doors to a new type of scientific deposit: software. Researchers now have the ability to deposit source code while contributing to Software Heritage, the Library of Alexandria of Software. A testing phase, started in January, 2018, allowed users to […]
In the very broad scope addressed by digital preservation initiatives, a special place belongs to the scientific and technical artifacts that we need to properly archive to enable scientific reproducibility. For these artifacts we need identifiers that are not only unique and persistent, but also support integrity in an intrinsic way. They must provide strong […]
