Archiving and referencing all software source code using Software Heritage: new Ask me Anything webinar

Title: Archiving and referencing all software source code using Software Heritage. - Ask me Anything webinar series

February 19th at 15:00-16:00 UTC (10:00-11:00 EDT)

Organised by the RDA Early Career and Engagement Interest Group (ECEIG) 

The RDA Early Career and Engagement Interest Group (ECEIG)  is pleases to announce a new "Ask me Anything". This month's AMA is dedicated to Archiving and referencing all software source code using Software Heritage. Professor Roberto Di Cosmo will show how to use the Software Heritage infrastructure to seamlessly archive all software source code, and how to obtain and use the special intrinsic identifiers for software source code that are needed to reference the source code in a way that supports reproducibility in the long run. Pointers to detailed guidelines will be provided.

If you are interested in attending please note that registration is required:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-and-referencing-all-software-source-code-using-software-heritage-tickets-92803532865

Additional information:

The talk will be held online on Wednesday, February 19th at 15:00-16:00 UTC (10:00-11:00 EDT)

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Short biography of Roberto Di Cosmo

An alumnus of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Roberto Di Cosmo was associate professor for almost a decade at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. In 1999, he became a Computer Science full professor at University Paris Diderot, where he was head of doctoral studies for Computer Science from 2004 to 2009. A trustee of the IMDEA Software institute, and member of the national committee for Open Science in France, he is currently on leave at Inria.

Professor Di Cosmo’s research activity spans theoretical computing, functional programming, parallel and distributed programming, the semantics of programming languages, type systems, rewriting and linear logic, and, more recently, the new scientific problems posed by the general adoption of Free Software, with a particular focus on static analysis of large software collections. He has published over 20 international journals articles and 50 international conference articles.

In 2008, he created and coordinated the european research project Mancoosi, that had a budget of 4.4Me and brought together 10 partners to improve the quality of package-based open source software systems. Following the evolution of our society under the impact of IT with great interest, he is a long term Free Software advocate, contributing to its adoption since 1998 with the best-seller Hijacking the world, seminars, articles and software. He created in October 2007 the Free Software thematic group of Systematic, that helped fund over 50 Open Source research and development collaborative projects for a consolidated budget of over 200Me. From 2010 to 2018, he was director of IRILL, a research structure dedicated to Free and Open Source Software quality.

He created in 2015, and now directs Software Heritage, an initiative to build the universal archive of all the source code publicly available, in partnership with UNESCO. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/bandrow@gmail.com/cv/114728/

Twitter:  http://twitter.com/rdicosmo
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7493-5349