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Software Heritage

infrastructure supported by INRIA and UNESCO; its 3 core missions are: to collect, preserve and share the source code of publicly available software.
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Software Heritage

Summary

Software Heritage is an archives[1]. It draws 15 Wikipedia views per month (archives category, ranking #29 of 123).[2]

Key Facts

  • Software Heritage's field of work was software preservation[3].
  • Software Heritage is located in Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt[4].
  • Software Heritage is in the country of France[5].
  • Software Heritage's image is recorded as Software Heritage archival request.png[6].
  • Software Heritage's instance of is recorded as archives[7].
  • Software Heritage's instance of is recorded as open science infrastructure[8].
  • Software Heritage's founder is recorded as Roberto Di Cosmo[9].
  • Software Heritage's founder is recorded as Stefano Zacchiroli[10].
  • Software Heritage's logo image is recorded as Software-heritage-logo-title.svg[11].
  • Software Heritage's headquarters location is recorded as Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique[12].
  • Software Heritage's IdRef ID is recorded as 270280278[13].
  • Software Heritage's Commons category is recorded as Software Heritage[14].
  • +2016-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Software Heritage[15].
  • Software Heritage's official website is recorded as http://softwareheritage.org/[16].
  • Software Heritage's official website is recorded as https://www.softwareheritage.org/?lang=fr[17].
  • Software Heritage's official website is recorded as https://www.softwareheritage.org/?lang=es[18].
  • Software Heritage's web feed URL is recorded as https://www.softwareheritage.org/feed/[19].
  • Software Heritage's source code repository URL is recorded as https://gitlab.softwareheritage.org/[20].
  • Software Heritage's described by source is recorded as Open Science Thesaurus[21].
  • Software Heritage's official blog URL is recorded as https://www.softwareheritage.org/blog/[22].
  • Software Heritage's owner of is recorded as Software Heritage archive[23].
  • Software Heritage's X is recorded as SWHeritage[24].
  • Software Heritage's GitHub account is recorded as SoftwareHeritage[25].
  • Software Heritage's YouTube channel ID is recorded as UCe26PlE3YKTXYvEY9HWdIlQ[26].
  • Software Heritage's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11c4b3kbs3[27].

Body

Founding

Founders include Roberto Di Cosmo[9] and Stefano Zacchiroli[10]. +2016-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Software Heritage[15].

Operations

Software Heritage's headquarters location is recorded as Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique[12].

Industry

Software Heritage's field of work was software preservation[3].

Why It Matters

Software Heritage draws 15 Wikipedia views per month (archives category, ranking #29 of 123).[2] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

France GitHub Archive Program Open Science Thesaurus Roberto Di Cosmo software preservation Stefano Zacchiroli

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . document. wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . Q110684320. wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . data.loterre.fr. Retrieved . data.loterre.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Field of work → software preservation
    Owner of → Software Heritage archive
    Country → France
    Official website → http://softwareheritage.org/, https://www.softwareheritage.org/?lang=fr, https://www.softwareheritage.org/?lang=es
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P1343]]: [[Q108928644]]"
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