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The ENEA of Bologna will be the official residence of Software Heritage, the world's largest source code library, for the preservation of the software heritage that has changed the world.
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OCTOBER 23, 2019
The first European source code archive is called "Software Heritage". It will be hosted at the Enea Research Center (National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development) of Bologna, which will hold over 6 billion files from which all publicly available software is generated worldwide. There is talk of the single source code of 90.8 million software, developed by 25 million programmers, a real world heritage, which will be ordered, stored and made available to users around the world. Not surprisingly, Heritage literally means inheritance.
On the official website we read that...
The ENEA of Bologna will be the official residence of Software Heritage, the world's largest source code library, for the preservation of the software heritage that has changed the world.
of Tom's Hardware for IL FATTO QUOTIDIANO
OCTOBER 23, 2019
The first European source code archive is called "Software Heritage". It will be hosted at the Enea Research Center (National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development) of Bologna, which will hold over 6 billion files from which all publicly available software is generated worldwide. There is talk of the single source code of 90.8 million software, developed by 25 million programmers, a real world heritage, which will be ordered, stored and made available to users around the world. Not surprisingly, Heritage literally means inheritance.
On the official website we read that...
"the software is fragile, unlike words carved in stone, it can be deleted or corrupted". Software Heritage collects and preserves the software in the form of source code, because the software embodies our technical and scientific knowledge and humanity cannot afford the risk of losing it [...] only by sharing it can we guarantee its long-term preservation ”.
Conservation is not just about the historical heritage of human production, but also about scientific discoveries and industrial processes. It is no coincidence, therefore, that the archive includes "pearls" like the program at the base of the computer on board of Apollo 11, passing through the codes that allowed the creation of digital music.
The official presentation will be held tomorrow 24 October. To browse within the archive content, you will need to use the Heritage Software Web application and the Software Heritage API. Through the application you can search for source packages and repositories, identify areas of interest and explore them with convenient navigation interfaces.
The Software Heritage working group explains that “the ENEA Center in Bologna will not only contribute to its long-term sustainability, it will also bring its experience in Big Data to study and analyze the 'Big Code' contained in this source code library and algorithms that has no precedent ”.
The initiative was born on the proposal of the Italian computer scientists Roberto Di Cosmo and Stefano Zacchiroli and benefits from the support of the Institut National de Recherche dédié aux sciences du numérique (INRIA) and Unesco. Sponsors include Microsoft, Intel and Google.
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Conservation is not just about the historical heritage of human production, but also about scientific discoveries and industrial processes. It is no coincidence, therefore, that the archive includes "pearls" like the program at the base of the computer on board of Apollo 11, passing through the codes that allowed the creation of digital music.
The official presentation will be held tomorrow 24 October. To browse within the archive content, you will need to use the Heritage Software Web application and the Software Heritage API. Through the application you can search for source packages and repositories, identify areas of interest and explore them with convenient navigation interfaces.
The Software Heritage working group explains that “the ENEA Center in Bologna will not only contribute to its long-term sustainability, it will also bring its experience in Big Data to study and analyze the 'Big Code' contained in this source code library and algorithms that has no precedent ”.
The initiative was born on the proposal of the Italian computer scientists Roberto Di Cosmo and Stefano Zacchiroli and benefits from the support of the Institut National de Recherche dédié aux sciences du numérique (INRIA) and Unesco. Sponsors include Microsoft, Intel and Google.
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