Software Heritage, first steps:
What is it and how to use it?
13 December 2022
Les entrepôts de données: un outil au service des principes FAIR
Joenio Marques da Costa
Research Software Engineer at LISIS
CorTexT platform and Risis Core Facility (RCF) project
softwareheritage.org/2022/11/22/22nd-ambassador-joenio-marques-da-costa
Universal software source code archive
180 million software projects
why?
- 2015, Google Code and Gitorious.org shutdown
- 2019, BitBucket announces Mercurial VCS sunset
- 2020, BitBucket erases 250.000+ repositories
- 2021, Inria’s old gforge.inria.fr was shut down
- 2022, GitLab.com considers erasing all projects that are inactive for a year
Software Heritage
=
GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Google Code … ?
Features
Software Heritage archive
Software Heritage identifiers
Intrinsic identifiers for digital objects.
One type of identifier can’t answer all use cases, we need both intrinsic identifiers and extrinsic identifiers for software research outputs.
softwareheritage.org/2020/07/09/intrinsic-vs-extrinsic-identifiers
What can be identified with a SWHID?
softwareheritage.org/faq/#32_What_can_be_identified_with_a_SWHID
SWHID howtos:
- HOWTO archive and reference your code
- Archiving and Referencing Source Code with Software Heritage
- https://ctan.org/pkg/biblatex-software
Examples of SWHID use:
Extra references:
CorTexT Manager
Thanks!
joenio@joenio.me
This presentation is available at:
http://joenio.me/software-heritage-olio
(source-code: https://gitlab.com/joenio/joenio.gitlab.io)
Presentation history
Where and when this presentation was done
- 13 December 2022, Online, Les entrepôts de données : un outil au service des principes FAIR