Building the Universal Software Archive for Open Science

Software is at the heart of our digital society and embodies a growing part of our scientific, technical and organisational knowledge.
The mission of Software Heritage is to ensure that this precious body of knowledge will be preserved over time and made available to all.
We do this for multiple reasons. To preserve the scientific and technological knowledge embedded in software source code, that is a precious part of our heritage. To allow better software development and reuse for society and
industry, by building the largest and open software knowledge database, enabling the development of a broad range of value added applications.

And we do this in particular to foster better science, by assembling the largest curated archive for software research, and building the infrastructure for preserving and sharing research software, a necessary complement to Open Access and a stepping stone for reproducibility.

Speaker: Prof. Roberto di Cosmo

Link sito Nexa:
https://nexa.polito.it/2018/02/dicosmo