Software Heritage (SWH) is an initiative launched by INRIA in 2016, and supported by UNESCO, which aims to collect, preserve, share and archive all publicly available software in source code form.
HAL is the national open archive platform, enabling the deposit of software source code. HAL does not archive the software itself, but rather a notice and a link to the SWH archive.
The two form the diptych for the preservation and referencing of research software source codes.
Find the support and the video of the webinar of the Cellule Data Grenoble Alpes of 28/04/2023 in French: «Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur le signalement des logiciels de recherche grâce à HAL et à Software Heritage».
To find out more, take a look at the webinar proposed by the CCSD on 31 May 2022 in French: “Les logiciels dans HAL : une collaboration entre Software Heritage, Inria et le CCSD” available on the CCSD channel.
Guidelines are available to help you with the source code submission process.
To reference your code on SWH/HAL, contact us:
sos-codes-recherche[at]univ-grenoble-alpes.fr