GitLab joins the Archive
GitLab, a major web-based, public git repository forge, is now fully archived into the Software Heritage archive. We will continue to periodically update this section of the archive, to keep…
Read about us in CACM
We had an article published in the October 2018 edition of Communications of the ACM. Communications of the ACM is the Association of Computing Machinery’s print and online publication. With…
PyPI Available on Software Heritage
We’re pleased to share that the Python Package Index (PyPI) is now integrated with Software Heritage: all PyPI packages have been archived and PyPI is now being tracked to timely archive new Python…
Depositing scientific software into Software Heritage
Thanks to a collaboration between Software Heritage (SWH), HAL-Inria and the CCSD, HAL is opening its doors to a new type of scientific deposit: software. Researchers now have the ability…
Identifying billions of digital objects : a whitepaper
In the very broad scope addressed by digital preservation initiatives, a special place belongs to the scientific and technical artifacts that we need to properly archive to enable scientific reproducibility….
Browsing the Software Heritage archive: a guided tour
The Software Heritage mission is to collect, preserve, and share the source code from all publicly available software. An important milestone for the project was enabling access and browsing of…
Software preservation: a stepping stone for software citation
This blog post was originally published on Generation R (https://doi.org/10.25815/0ZBH-2W14). In recent years software has become a legitimate product of research gaining more attention from the scholarly ecosystem than ever…
Opening the doors of the Software Heritage archive
Software is all around us: it powers our industry, fuels innovation, supports scientific research and lies at the heart of our societies. The mission of Software Heritage is to collect, preserve,…
We’re hiring: back-end developer
Our archive keeps growing, … and our team is following! We’re now hiring a back-end developer, full-time, to grow our Paris-based team. The person who will fill the position will…
Donate to Software Heritage!
[ TL;DR: you can now donate to support our work! ] Software is at the heart of our digital society and embodies a growing part of our scientific, technical and organisational knowledge, to…