Curated Archiving of Research Software Artifacts : lessons learned from the French open archive (HAL)

Roberto Di Cosmo (1, 2) , Morane Gruenpeter (1, 3) , Bruno P Marmol (4, 5) , Alain Monteil (6, 7) , Laurent Romary (7) , Jozefina Sadowska (7)

1 Software Heritage
2 UPCité - Université Paris Cité
3 UNIVAQ - University of L'Aquila [Italy]
4 Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes
5 CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
6 Inria Siège
7 INRIA-IES - Information et Édition Scientifiques

Software has become an indissociable support of technical and scientific knowledge. The preservation of this universal body of knowledge is as essential as preserving research articles and data sets. In the quest to make scientific results reproducible, and pass knowledge to future generations, we must preserve these three main pillars: research articles that describe the results, the data sets used or produced, and the software that embodies the logic of the data transformation. The collaboration between Software Heritage (SWH), the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD) and the scientific and technical information services (IES) of The French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (Inria) has resulted in a specified moderation and curation workflow for research software artifacts deposited in the HAL open access repository. The curation workflow was developed to help digital librarians and archivists handle this new and peculiar artifact-software source code. While implementing the workflow, a set of guidelines has emerged from the challenges and the solutions put in place to help all actors involved in the process.

Mots clés: Software Heritage; HAL; CCSD; IES Inria; legacy; preservation; reproducibility; software curation; software metadata; PID

Domaines: Bibliothèque électronique [cs.DL]

Roberto Di Cosmo, Morane Gruenpeter, Bruno P Marmol, Alain Monteil, Laurent Romary, et al.. Curated Archiving of Research Software Artifacts : lessons learned from the French open archive (HAL). IDCC 2020 - International Digital Curation Conference, Feb 2020, Dublin, Ireland. ⟨10.2218/ijdc.v15i1.698⟩. ⟨hal-02475835⟩