FAQ - Software Heritage
1. General 1.1 What is Software Heritage? Software Heritage is an open, non-profit infrastructure launched in 2016 by Inria. It is supported by a broad panel of institutional and industry...| Software Heritage
Software, and in particular source code, plays an important role in science: it is used in all research fields to produce, transform and analyse research data, and is sometimes itself an object of research and/or an output of research. This output, with inputs from a broad panel of stakeholders, provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art practice in software identification, including use cases and identifier schemes from different academic domains and in industry.| Zenodo
On 29 April 2025 from 14:00 to 16:00 CEST, the FAIR Implementation Workshop “Meet the SoftWare Hash Identifier: Do One Thing and Do It Well” took place, organised by FAIR-IMPACT Project. The session highlighted that software identification was essential for ensuring the long-term traceability of scholarly outputs. However, as often happened with software, the process was not as straightforward as it seemed. Research software identification resembled an investigation and required tailored ...| Zenodo
Archiving and referencing properly your source code an important step to support Open Science and to comply with the Know Your Software principle (KYSW). This page provides a concise checklist to do so seamlessly using Software Heritage.| Software Heritage
1. General 1.1 What is Software Heritage? Software Heritage is an open, non-profit infrastructure launched in 2016 by Inria. It is supported by a broad panel of institutional and industry...| Software Heritage
Software Hash IDentifier (SWHID) has now been officially published as the ISO/IEC international standard 18670| Software Heritage
