wiki/notebook/data.archives.software-heritage.org

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#+title: Software Heritage
#+date: 2021-07-25 21:01:45 +08:00
#+date_modified: 2021-07-28 00:02:38 +08:00
#+language: en


- project link is at https://www.softwareheritage.org/
- the infrastructure and tools they used is also open source;
  primarily happening at [[https://forge.softwareheritage.org/][their software forge]]
- an ambitious project archiving all of humanity's publicly available source code
- primarily made for researchers to easily refer to software;
  a centralized database for referring software similar to digital object identifiers (DOI) in research materials and ISBN for books
- the archive itself is more of a gigantic merkle tree with the ability to interact with the [[https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-model/data-model.html][individual objects]] such as commits, revisions, snapshots, and even the very source code files of an archived repo
- it is version control software-agnostic;
  archived software from several sources (e.g., Git, Mercurial)
- each object is given an identifer referred to as [[https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-model/persistent-identifiers.html][Software Heritage persistent identifiers]] (SWHIDs)
- funded from donations including big companies and several not-for-profit foundations
- a big component for [[id:6eeb7a24-b662-46d6-9ece-00a5028ff4d8][Reproducible research]] for other projects such as [[id:3b3fdcbf-eb40-4c89-81f3-9d937a0be53c][Nix package manager]] and [[id:be917383-84c4-4bf5-9ca0-b04bfb778f4f][Guix package manager]] used as a fallback when upstream vanished;
  soon enough, it will develop tools to integrate them further such as archiving the code used to build the binary cache
- there is a [[https://archive.softwareheritage.org/][public interface for browsing the archive]]
- they have dedicated resources into creating an infrastructure for creating a centralized reference for software such the following list
  + [[id:cf5cadae-e01b-4099-86fe-b0e05bda4d39][swh.fuse]], a tool that integrates the archive into a user-local filesystem integrating the archive for development workflow
  + roam:swh.search adding the search functionality in the archive
  + roam:swh.lister lists from several forges (e.g., GitHub, GitLab)
Add notes on archives 2021-07-27 15:13:13 +00:00			`:PROPERTIES:`
			`:ID: 9c85ffb2-fc90-4b38-abce-f0425a2b79de`
			`:END:`
			`#+title: Software Heritage`
			`#+date: 2021-07-25 21:01:45 +08:00`
Update the notebook The topics I've covered so far for Linux, package managers, archiving, and learning. I also updated some formatting for other notes especially with the command line references. 2021-07-29 15:26:51 +00:00			`#+date_modified: 2021-07-28 00:02:38 +08:00`
Add notes on archives 2021-07-27 15:13:13 +00:00			`#+language: en`


			`- project link is at https://www.softwareheritage.org/`
			`- the infrastructure and tools they used is also open source;`
			`primarily happening at [[https://forge.softwareheritage.org/][their software forge]]`
			`- an ambitious project archiving all of humanity's publicly available source code`
			`- primarily made for researchers to easily refer to software;`
Update the notebook The topics I've covered so far for Linux, package managers, archiving, and learning. I also updated some formatting for other notes especially with the command line references. 2021-07-29 15:26:51 +00:00			`a centralized database for referring software similar to digital object identifiers (DOI) in research materials and ISBN for books`
			`- the archive itself is more of a gigantic merkle tree with the ability to interact with the [[https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-model/data-model.html][individual objects]] such as commits, revisions, snapshots, and even the very source code files of an archived repo`
			`- it is version control software-agnostic;`
			`archived software from several sources (e.g., Git, Mercurial)`
			`- each object is given an identifer referred to as [[https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-model/persistent-identifiers.html][Software Heritage persistent identifiers]] (SWHIDs)`
Add notes on archives 2021-07-27 15:13:13 +00:00			`- funded from donations including big companies and several not-for-profit foundations`
			`- a big component for [[id:6eeb7a24-b662-46d6-9ece-00a5028ff4d8][Reproducible research]] for other projects such as [[id:3b3fdcbf-eb40-4c89-81f3-9d937a0be53c][Nix package manager]] and [[id:be917383-84c4-4bf5-9ca0-b04bfb778f4f][Guix package manager]] used as a fallback when upstream vanished;`
			`soon enough, it will develop tools to integrate them further such as archiving the code used to build the binary cache`
			`- there is a [[https://archive.softwareheritage.org/][public interface for browsing the archive]]`
Update the notebook The topics I've covered so far for Linux, package managers, archiving, and learning. I also updated some formatting for other notes especially with the command line references. 2021-07-29 15:26:51 +00:00			`- they have dedicated resources into creating an infrastructure for creating a centralized reference for software such the following list`
			`+ [[id:cf5cadae-e01b-4099-86fe-b0e05bda4d39][swh.fuse]], a tool that integrates the archive into a user-local filesystem integrating the archive for development workflow`
			`+ roam:swh.search adding the search functionality in the archive`
			`+ roam:swh.lister lists from several forges (e.g., GitHub, GitLab)`