Fwd: [software-source-code-ig][scid] Guidelines for archiving and referencing (research) software in Software Heritage

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Jessica Meyerson

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Sep 6, 2019, 9:21:02 AM9/6/19

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Greetings Software Preservation Network!

For those of you that are not subscribed to the RDA Software Source Code Interest Group, check out the recently published guidelines from Software Heritage on using their source code archive and uniform identifier schema.

Happy Friday!

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From: rdicosmo via Software Source Code IG <software-so...@rda-groups.org>
Date: Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 8:15 AM
Subject: [software-source-code-ig][scid] Guidelines for archiving and referencing (research) software in Software Heritage
To: Software Source Code IG <software-so...@rda-groups.org>, scid <sc...@rda-groups.org>

Dear all,
one of the core goals of Software Heritage is to support reproducible research, and to this end it provides two essential and unique functionalities:

a universal archive of software source code, because research software depends on a myriad software components, that need all be archived and referenced
a uniform identifier schema that abstracts away the details of source code provenance and version control, based on intrinsic identifiers that are compatible with git commit hashes

I am delighted to share a first set of guidelines explaining how to leverage these functionalities to seamlessly archive and reference the source code of software in research articles and documentation:

blog post with high level overview: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2019/08/05/saving-and-referencing-research-software-in-software-heritage/
full detailed guidelines, with a running example and LaTeX snippets: https://annex.softwareheritage.org/public/guidelines/archive-research-software.pdf

Do not hesitate in reading/using/spreading the word, and of course all feedback will be welcome.

All the best

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Roberto Di Cosmo

P.S.: for advanced users that are interested in going further on the road to reproducibility, it might be interesting to look into the combination of Guix and Software Heritage, that is described in this older blog post: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2019/04/18/software-heritage-and-gnu-guix-join-forces-to-enable-long-term-reproducibility/

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