The Software Heritage Open Science Ecosystem
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10295v1
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 11:32:03 GMT
- Title: The Software Heritage Open Science Ecosystem
- Authors: Roberto Di Cosmo (UPCit\'e), Stefano Zacchiroli (IP Paris, LTCI)
- Abstract summary: Software Heritage is the largest public archive of software source code and associated development history.
It has archived more than 16 billion unique source code files coming from more than 250 million collaborative development projects.
It supports empirical research on software by materializing in a single Merkle direct acyclic graph the development history of public code.
It ensures availability and guarantees integrity of the source code of software artifacts used in any field that relies on software to conduct experiments.
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- Abstract: Software Heritage is the largest public archive of software source code and
associated development history, as captured by modern version control systems.
As of July 2023, it has archived more than 16 billion unique source code files
coming from more than 250 million collaborative development projects. In this
chapter, we describe the Software Heritage ecosystem, focusing on research and
open science use cases.On the one hand, Software Heritage supports empirical
research on software by materializing in a single Merkle direct acyclic graph
the development history of public code. This giant graph of source code
artifacts (files, directories, and commits) can be used-and has been used-to
study repository forks, open source contributors, vulnerability propagation,
software provenance tracking, source code indexing, and more.On the other hand,
Software Heritage ensures availability and guarantees integrity of the source
code of software artifacts used in any field that relies on software to conduct
experiments, contributing to making research reproducible. The source code used
in scientific experiments can be archived-e.g., via integration with
open-access repositories-referenced using persistent identifiers that allow
downstream integrity checks and linked to/from other scholarly digital
artifacts.
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