We are delighted to present a new Landmark Legacy Software Story to Inria’s stories collection: the story of the web browser and editor Amaya.  Preserving landmark legacy software Software Heritage’s mission is to collect, preserve and share all software source code. Within this mission, there is a category of software which had a profound impact […]

Our mission at Software Heritage is to collect, preserve, and make publicly available the entire body of software, in the preferred form for making modifications to it. We consider that publicly available source code, and even more so Free and Open  Source Software (FOSS), is a digital commons that embodies decades of human creative effort. […]

We are thrilled to present the recently created Software Heritage documentation landing page for users and contributors at docs.softwareheritage.org. On the landing page, you can browse the available resources and also contribute to improving the documentation! Knowledge about Software Heritage exists in various forms, in many places and for different audiences:  Technical documentation for partners, […]

We are delighted to introduce our 8th ambassador in 2023, Bertrand Néron! Bertrand holds a PhD in cellular physiology and has been working as a research software engineer at the Pasteur Institute since 2003. He specializes in the field of bioinformatics, within the « Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Hub », which serves as a core facility. One could […]

Software metadata is vital for the classification, curation, and sharing of free and open-source software (FOSS). In a recent presentation at the Software Heritage Ambassador’s plenary, Morane Gruenpeter and Valentin Lorentz discussed the collection, preservation, and sharing of software metadata to build the semantic web of FOSS. Software Heritage aims to collect, preserve and share […]

We are thrilled to present Agustín Benito Bethencourt as our 7th ambassador of the year! Agustín (toscalix) met Free Software during his studies at the Universidad de La Laguna in the late nineties. In 2003, Agustin decided to shift his career as an entrepreneur towards Open Source. Since then, he has guided teams, projects and […]

Starting from 2021, Software Heritage publishes a technical roadmap that is updated yearly. As is customary for many Open Source projects, this roadmap serves both as a guideline for the development team, and as a means to share with the broader user and contributor community the current priorities. We are investing more effort into this latter […]

Sharing the collected and preserved source code with the stakeholders is an important part of the Software Heritage mission. We are glad to unveil the newest feature to search and retrieve information from the archive – Software Heritage GraphQL Explorer. While Software Heritage’s REST APIs are a convenient and simple way for a client to […]

Software Heritage, in collaboration with the Inria alumni network and the Direction of Culture and Scientific Information (DCIS) of Inria, is excited to invite you to join us in contributing to the inventory of the software heritage built at Inria since its inception. At Software Heritage, our mission is to collect, preserve, and share all […]

Identifying precisely software artifacts and their versions is of paramount importance for a variety of stakeholders, ranging from industry to academia, from cultural heritage to public administration. This issue has been a main concern for Software Heritage from the very beginning, as it is a key prerequisite to accomplish its mission to collect, preserve, and […]