Software Heritage, the “Library of Alexandria of software,” launches today | Ars Technica UK

lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-07-02

Summary:

"The Software Heritage project aims to "collect, organise, preserve and make easily accessible the source code of all software that is publicly available." Calling itself the "Software Wikipedia," the "Internet Archive for source code," and even the "Library of Alexandria of software," it believes "a single and universal archive making software source code readily available will facilitate access to the knowledge contained therein, support programming education, and create a reference catalogue with all knowledge about this software." "

Link:

http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2016/06/software-heritage-the-library-of-alexandria-of-software-launches-today/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.software oa.preservation oa.data oa.code4oa oa.floss

Date tagged:

07/02/2016, 11:22

Date published:

07/02/2016, 08:14