Webinar: Archive your software to the Software Heritage

Software Heritage, the universal source code archive, has the ambitious goal to collect, preserve and share all publicly available software in source code form. Recognizing that source code embodies our technical and scientific knowledge, it is crucial to archive, reference describe and cite software the same way we do with publications and data. In the EU project FAIRCORE4EOSC, a dedicated team is missioned with the task to identify and archive the relevant software for academia in general and for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), in particular. The EOSC-Core components are included as a primary aim to be saved for the long term in the universal source code archive, Software Heritage.  It is important to note that archiving any software repository is extremely easy with the save code now feature, where anyone can save any code (like archive.org’s Wayback machine). Though saving is easy, finding is hard. This is why preparing the code for archival with machine-actionable metadata can ensure the Research Software and the EOSC-Core components are findable.

In this webinar, we introduce the Software Heritage archive features and present guidelines to better archive code repositories. We will detail the steps on how you can prepare the service repositories so as to help us easily index them and archive them in Software Heritage. Be prepared and make sure your source code is hosted on a repository publicly accessible (Github, Bitbucket, a GitLab instance, an institutional software forge, etc.) using one of the version control systems supported by Software Heritage, currently Git, Subversion and Mercurial. We will present a set of well-established best practices to make the repository indexable. A linked data metadata file will assist in indexing your source code in the Software Heritage archive and provide an easy way to link to other related research outputs.

• How to easily find archived repositories of EOSC Core services
• Explaining the process and show examples with Software Heritage
• How to prepare your repository to be archived in Software Heritage

Agenda

Timing is in CEST

11:00 – Overview and introduction of the concept – Morane Gruenpeter, Software Heritage

11:20 – How to Prepare / Store a Service Repository to make it preservable and accessible on the long term – Themis Zamani, GRNET

11:40 – Q&A and interactive session   

Who should attend

• Repository owners
• Service providers
• Research and e-Infrastructures

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