Open Source: The connective tissue of Open Science
Research software shouldn’t expire when a grant ends. Sayeed Choudhury on how Carnegie Mellon’s OSPO is building the ‘connective tissue’ to turn lab code into lasting community products.
No science without source: Collecting, preserving and sharing software in a risky world
Addressing an audience on research ethics, Roberto Di Cosmo reframed the conversation around data altruism by crossing out “data” to focus on a deeper issue: the shared commons of software code itself.
Building software to support researchers
Computational pathology researcher and Software Heritage Ambassador Esha Nasir explains why the traditional PDF is obsolete and how Research Software Engineers (RSEs) help secure open science.
Archiving 900 million lines of the OIN Linux System Table
Beyond the license: Software Heritage and OIN have archived 900M lines of the Linux System Table. Discover how permanent code preservation creates a prior art shield against patent aggression and digital link rot.
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: Advancing software recognition
Data librarian Fanny Sébire and Software Heritage Ambassador Bertrand Néron detail their collaboration at the Institut Pasteur. They explain how their complementary skills are being used to drive a cultural shift, moving research software from a secondary artifact to a verifiable scientific output through standardized dual archiving.
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.
How the Paris-Saclay library supports research software
How Paris-Saclay University, through its Data, Algorithm, and Code Administrator (ADAC) Cédric Mercier, manages institutional research data and code. Read about their strategy and new Software Heritage sponsorship.
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.