posts appearing on the main Software Heritage blog
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.
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.
The Software Heritage Open Science Strategic Blueprint outlines a bold vision to preserve and share all publicly available source code.
Ron Burkey tells the story behind the Virtual AGC project and how it ended up at the Software Heritage Archive.
Meet our new Ambassador, Neha Oudin, a data platform engineer, privacy advocate, and free software contributor.
Episciences enables linking publications to source code archived in Software Heritage, enhancing research reproducibility.
This tutorial shows how to use a structured approach to prepare your legacy software for preservation in the Software Heritage archive.
