Software Heritage identifiers

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Software Heritage Identifiers, or SWHIDs for short, are persistent intrinsic identifiers used to reference objects stored in the Software Heritage Archive.

The syntax and semantics of SWHIDs can be found in SWHID specification.

Adoption

SWHIDs are used in a number of different technologies and standards, such as:

identifiers.org resolved (prefix "swh"
Name-to-Things (N2T) resolver
Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) standard, starting from version 2.2

References

SWHID specification

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