Preserving code: 2025 milestones in scaling and history
2025 milestones: from SWHID becoming an ISO standard to scaling the Archive with Kraken and expanding our global mirror network.
Software rot: Saving science’s digital legacy
Research relies on fragile software. Experts discuss the crisis of « software rot, » and the role of open source and artificial intelligence.
Institut Pasteur: Faire reconnaître les logiciels
Dans cet entretien, Fanny Sébire et Bertrand Néron expliquent comment ils collaborent pour faire évoluer la perception du code source et du logiciel au sein de leur institution.
Meet the SWHID: The end of broken links, broken builds
CTO Thomas Aynaud on the SWHID: How the new ISO standard defeats fragile dependencies and guarantees code integrity.
Bibliothèques de l’Université Paris-Saclay : une stratégie pour le logiciel
Les bibliothèques font progresser l’enseignement, la recherche et l’apprentissage en fournissant des ressources, en facilitant la découverte et en offrant des conseils spécialisés. Le code source des logiciels devenant de…
From lab to lecture hall: The rise of software in academia
Academic software has grown exponentially. Software Heritage Archive data shows where it’s being created, what languages are used, and the crisis in licensing.
Open Science needs a software revolution: Here’s a blueprint
The Software Heritage Open Science Strategic Blueprint outlines a bold vision to preserve and share all publicly available source code.
Why the space age’s most epic code still matters
Ron Burkey tells the story behind the Virtual AGC project and how it ended up at the Software Heritage Archive.
Preserving legacy code with Software Heritage: A tutorial
This tutorial shows how to use a structured approach to prepare your legacy software for preservation in the Software Heritage archive.
How to preserve legacy code with Software Heritage
Code is history. Discover SWHAP, the process designed by Software Heritage to
preserve legacy software.