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Building the Universal Archive of Source Code: A global collaborative project for the benefit of all.

The article discusses the collaborative source code preservation project Software Heritage, created by the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (Inria), the collection of source code using crowd-sourcing, and the preservation of the development history of the source code...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 61; no. 10; pp. 29 - 32
Main Authors: Abramatic, Jean-François, Di Cosmo, Roberto, Zacchiroli, Stefano
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Oct2018
Subjects:
Source code
Preservation of materials
Crowdsourcing
Computer software development
Acquisition of data
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses the collaborative source code preservation project Software Heritage, created by the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (Inria), the collection of source code using crowd-sourcing, and the preservation of the development history of the source code preserved by the project.