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ENEA, Software Heritage’s Italian mirror

Software Heritage archives, collects, preserves and makes accessible the source code of all publicly available software in the world, building a modern Library of Alexandria of software source code. Unlike the original Library of Alexandria, whose contents were lost in a fire, Software Heritage has a long term strategy to […]

October 3, 2019

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We are hiring… again!

To continue Software Heritage’s project success, we are recruiting a postdoc researcher profile to empower our Paris-based team.  The postdoc’s topic is to work on large-scale, big data graph analysis for the purpose of tracking the provenance of software source code artifacts, such as source code files and commits, as […]

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Software Heritage for Open Science

On july 4th 2018 was unveiled the French national plan for Open Science, that identifies Software Heritage as one key initiative to support. Today we are delighted to welcome the French Ministry of Research as our first gold sponsor, contributing effectively to our efforts. We are very grateful for this […]

September 5, 2019

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Saving and referencing research software in Software Heritage

Software Heritage allows to archive seamlessly your research software artifacts, and also to add to your research articles precise references to specific versions of the source code, down to fragments of individual source files. This allows to enhance significantly the experience of the reviewers of your work (for example, the […]

August 5, 2019

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Archiving and referencing the Apollo source code

Apollo Guidance Computer and its DSKY

It was fifty years ago, July 20th 1969. Six hundred million people all over the world were holding their breath watching on television the blurry black and white images of the first manned spacecraft landing on the moon: I was one of them, and I will never forget the huge […]

July 20, 2019

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Announcing the Software Heritage Graph Dataset

The mission of Software Heritage is to collect, preserve and share all the publicly available source code, and we have already assembled the largest existing public archive of software source code, spanning tens of millions of software projects. The archive is composed of all the individual source code files, and […]

June 6, 2019

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Mining software metadata for 80 M projects and even more

You can now search archived source code by project metadata. Navigating through the vast amount of source code archived by Software Heritage can be daunting, and we are working to provide appropriate tools to search inside it. As a first step in this direction, we have been providing you with […]

May 28, 2019

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Software Heritage welcomes Google Summer of Code students!

Software Heritage’s team is delighted to welcome Thibault Allançon, Kalpit Kothari and Archit Agrawal as interns for Google Summer of Code 2019! Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on giving more student developers access to open source software development. During the (northern hemisphere) Summer break, students work […]

May 24, 2019

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