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• CodemetaR Author streamlines software metadata updates

  Jun 18, 2025 2:48 PM UTC

  This tutorial covers using the codemetar R package to generate universal Codemeta JSON files.

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• Software Heritage Citation Feature: Addressing researcher needs

  May 07, 2025 2:35 PM UTC

  Software Heritage now offers built-in citation support, a significant step in acknowledging software as a legitimate research output.

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• The OSPO-RADAR Project: Making research software easier to find and use

  Apr 02, 2025 1:06 PM UTC

  OSPO-RADAR aims to solve isolated research code issues by building a platform to map, reveal, and make code accessible.

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• New Features in the CodeMeta Generator

  Aug 30, 2024 3:07 PM UTC

  At Software Heritage, the universal source code archive, metadata is the software’s identity card. It provides information that can be used to identify, describe and curate software. To make it...

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• Deep Dive into the archival of Software Metadata

  Aug 24, 2023 1:00 PM UTC

  Software metadata is vital for the classification, curation, and sharing of free and open-source software (FOSS). In a recent presentation at the Software Heritage Ambassador’s plenary, Morane Gruenpeter and Valentin...

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• Software Heritage contributes CodeMeta generator to the community

  Mar 18, 2020 2:25 PM UTC

  Software projects are a precious part of our technical, scientific and organisational knowledge, and that’s why Software Heritage’s mission is to collect, preserve and share all their source code. In...

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• Mining software metadata for 80 M projects and even more

  May 28, 2019 6:08 AM UTC

  You can now search archived source code by project metadata. Navigating through the vast amount of source code archived by Software Heritage can be daunting, and we are working to...

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