Repository
Software Heritage
Software Heritage is an open, non-profit infrastructure that collects, preserves and shares the source code of publicly available software.
How it connects
Who is behind it
- Software Heritage developed by Inria. Launched by Inria in 2016; the project home page lists Inria as its initiator.
Related to
- Software Heritage relates to Persistent identifier. Its SWHIDs are persistent identifiers derived from the content of source code.
- Software Heritage relates to Research software. Its mission includes preserving software so that research can be reproduced.
Links
Details
Description
Inria launched it in 2016, in collaboration with UNESCO. SWHIDs (SoftWare Hash IDentifiers) are persistent, intrinsic identifiers for archived source code.
Attributes
| url | https://www.softwareheritage.org/ |
|---|---|
| identifiers | ror: 02etvq888, wikidata: Q28127082 |
| status | active |
| governance | Nonprofit |
| since | 2016 |
| prominence | extended |
| type | Repository |
| repositoryKind | hosted-service |
| Tags | region: global, function: preservation |
Sources
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260907041940/https://www.softwareheritage.org/faq/(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-13): FAQ: open, non-profit infrastructure launched in 2016 by Inria, in collaboration with UNESCO; SWHID (Internet Archive copy of softwareheritage.org).
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260101080003/https://www.softwareheritage.org/mission/(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-13): Mission: collect, preserve and share all publicly available source code (Internet Archive copy).
- https://www.swhid.org/(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-13): SWHID.org: persistent, intrinsic identifiers; ISO/IEC 18670:2025.
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28127082(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-13): Official website softwareheritage.org.
Last reviewed: 2026-11-13
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