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.
CodeMeta Party: Shaping the future of software metadata
Join the movement shaping CodeMeta v4.0. We’re defining the standards for software metadata to improve discovery, trust, and interoperability across the global research ecosystem.
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.
Research Software Directory adopts SoftWare Hash Identifiers
The Netherlands eScience Center’s Research Software Directory (RSD) adopted the Software Heritage Identifier (SWHID) to ensure source code is archived for the long term.
Open source and the European skills gap
A skills shortage limits the future of tech in Europe. In a white paper from the Eclipse Foundation, Roberto Di Cosmo argues that open source can offer a fix.
Open Science is a team sport; the library is the hub
Clément Pieyre, Bibliothèque Diderot de Lyon, uses the Olympic rings to symbolize the indispensable role of university libraries in Open Science.
Meet our new Head of Partnerships: Bastien Guerry
Bastien Guerry, the former French Chief Free Software Officer, discusses his shift to Software Heritage. His core insight: “Policies without products are empty, products without policies are blind.” Read the full interview on building the bridge between policy and infrastructure.
It takes a Kraken to scan billions of source files
CodeCommons is testing the limits of swh-fuse using large-scale clusters. Preliminary experiments ran on the 10,000-core Kraken cluster. The system validated performance by hitting an optimal file storage rate of 30,000 reads per second and sustained 8,000 file writes per second.