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
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          Di Cosmo, Roberto
          Zacchiroli, Stefano
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          Research director emeritus at Inria
          French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation
          Director of Software Heritage at Inria
          Professor of computer science at IRIF, University Paris Diderot
          Associate professor of computer science at IRIF, University Paris Diderot
          CTO of Software Heritage at Inria
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        Source code
        Preservation of materials
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        Computer software development
        Acquisition of data
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          Preservation of materials
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          Acquisition of data
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