This blog post was originally published on Generation R (https://doi.org/10.25815/0ZBH-2W14). In recent years software has become a legitimate product of research gaining more attention from the scholarly ecosystem than ever…
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Software is all around us: it powers our industry, fuels innovation, supports scientific research and lies at the heart of our societies. The mission of Software Heritage is to collect, preserve,…
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Our archive keeps growing, … and our team is following! We’re now hiring a back-end developer, full-time, to grow our Paris-based team. The person who will fill the position will…
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[ TL;DR: you can now donate to support our work! ] Software is at the heart of our digital society and embodies a growing part of our scientific, technical and organisational knowledge, to…
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Here at Software Heritage, we are taking over the mission of collecting, preserving, and sharing the source code of all the software available. This is a complex task, that involves…
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Software Heritage now archives all source packages of Debian as well as its security archive daily. Everything is ready for archival of other Debian derivatives as well. Keep on reading…
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One year has passed after we posted our first activity report, and it is now a good time to look at what was accomplished in 2017, and give some perspective…
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The initial flurry of activities related to unveiling the project, getting it up and running at a technical level, and networking with all our initial partners and allies didn’t leave…
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Today, at Unesco’s headquarters in Paris, a formal partnership agreement has been signed between Unesco and Inria to establish a framework for collaboration on preserving the knowledge embedded in software source…
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Back in November 2016, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote about structural code changes leading to a massive (+15 million!) upswing in the number of repositories archived by Software Heritage through a combination…
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