One hundred millions projects archived… and counting!
Software source code is a precious asset and an endangered heritage that we need to take care of, and this is why Software Heritage has the set goal to collect…
Experts join forces to expand the Software Heritage archive
We are delighted to announce today that Octobus and Tweag, with support from an European grant managed by NLNet, will contribute their expertise to Software Heritage’s long term mission to…
Software Heritage contributes CodeMeta generator to the community
Software projects are a precious part of our technical, scientific and organisational knowledge, and that’s why Software Heritage’s mission is to collect, preserve and share all their source code. In…
Software Heritage sponsors meet at UNESCO’s headquarters
The mission of Software Heritage is to collect, preserve and share all the available source code, for the benefit of all. In the long journey we have undertaken, we are…
The swh-badges are here!
In recent years, the trend of adding badges to a repository’s README file, became very popular. Many possibilities exist; license, continuous integration, passing tests, peer reviewed, chat, release date, and…
Software Heritage in 2019: a progress report
Pursuing our mission to collect, preserve and share the source code of all software ever written, 2019 was a year of great achievements for Software Heritage. Today is a good…
GitHub joins forces to preserve source code
The mission of Software Heritage is to collect, preserve and share all the publicly available source code. With more than 6.4 billion source files from more than 91 million projects,…
Research Software Hackathon at FORCE2019
Last week, we had the pleasure to participate in the Research Software Hackathon during the FORCE2019 conference. It was remarkable to see so many people interested in the same goal:…
Curating and archiving landmark legacy source code: you can help!
A few months ago, experts from all around the world convened at UNESCO headquarters signed the Paris Call on Software Source Code, calling for action to preserve software source code,…
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…