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This wiki provides the central hub for the public information of the working groups dedicated to software preservation in connection with the Software Heritage initiative.
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The Software Heritage initiative has the stated goal to ''collect, organise, preserve, and share'' all the ''source code'' of the software that is publicly available.
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The goal of these working groups is to accompany the growth of the software archive built by Software Heritage, and make sure that proper connections are established with all related initiatives and user and interest groups.
 
  
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All working groups abide to the general principles set out in the [[Process|Working Group Process document]].  
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This is an ambitious goal that starts from ''protecting the past'', in the spirit of many other [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_preservation digital preservation] initiatives, and focuses on providing the best information to software users and developers in the present, in order to improve our future.
  
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The current working groups are shortly described below:
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This wiki provides the central hub for all the public, collaboratively-maintained information about the Software Heritage project.
  
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=== Expanding the archive ===
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== Resources ==
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* [[Source_Discovery_and_Ingestion| Source Discovery and Ingestion (SODI)]]
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* [[Metadata_and_Linked_Data | Metadata and Linked Data (MELD)]]
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* The [[Glossary| Glossary page]] collects the definition of terms commonly used in the Software Heritage project.
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=== Interconnecting the archive ===
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* [[Reproducibility_of_Software|Reproducibility of Software (REOS)]]
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* [[Open_Access_and_Data | Open Access and Data (OPAD)]]
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=== Evolving the archive ===
 
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* [[Modeling_and_Ingesting_Version_control_systems | Modeling and Ingesting Version control systems (MIV)]]
 
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* [[Distribution_Replication_and_Query | Distribution, Replication and Query (DIREQ)]]
 
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=== Using the archive ===
 
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* [[Scientific_API| Scientific API (SAPI)]]
 
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* [[Ethical_and_Legal_Issues_and_Environment | Ethical and Legal Issues and Environment (ELIE)]]
 
  
 
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Latest revision as of 08:17, 4 May 2016

The Software Heritage initiative has the stated goal to collect, organise, preserve, and share all the source code of the software that is publicly available.

This is an ambitious goal that starts from protecting the past, in the spirit of many other digital preservation initiatives, and focuses on providing the best information to software users and developers in the present, in order to improve our future.

This wiki provides the central hub for all the public, collaboratively-maintained information about the Software Heritage project.

Resources

  • The Glossary page collects the definition of terms commonly used in the Software Heritage project.


Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

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