What news from the Universal Software Library?
Roberto Di Cosmo, founder of Sotfware Heritage © cc BY 2.0
By: Caroline Lachowsky
2 min
Why and how to archive, preserve and above all share source codes, a new intangible heritage of humanity?
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Let us take news of an exciting project, of a utopia under construction, the global project to preserve and share our common digital heritage:
Software Heritage
.
A true universal library of source codes and free software, imagined and built in a network, by our guest, the computer scientist
Roberto Di Cosmo
in the spirit of the pioneers of the web: the sharing and dissemination of knowledge, in complete freedom and open to everyone on the planet.
Since 2017, Unesco, CNRS and many university institutions around the world have responded to this unprecedented initiative.
Why and how to share this universal heritage of humanity?
With
Roberto Di Cosmo
, computer science researcher seconded to Inria, director of the
Software Heritage
initiative
, computer science professor at Paris Diderot University, and member of
IRIF.
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