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== Creation and history ==

The SoftWare Hash IDentifier was developed by [[Software Heritage]]. AsSoftware ofHeritage's 2023archives, itidentified wasby officiallytheir releasedSWHIDs, bywere Softwarepublicly Heritagereleased and wasstarting in use for billions of versions of pieces of software, termed "artefacts"2018.<ref name="SWHID_tracking_pastCNRS_supports">{{cite Q|Q134580517Q134581205|url-status=live|trans-title=The CNRS supports Software Heritage}}</ref> In research it is integrated with repositories such as [[HAL (open archive)|HAL]], [[Zenodo]] or the French catalog of Academic Research Free Software.

{{as of|2020}}, SWHIDs were in use for about nine billion versions of pieces of software,<ref name="CNRS_supports" /> termed "artefacts".<ref name="SWHID_tracking_past">{{cite Q|Q134580517|url-status=live}}</ref> SWHIDs are integrated with research repositories including [[HAL (open archive)|HAL]], [[Zenodo]] and the French catalog of Academic Research Free Software.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

The acronym SWHID originally referred to "Software Heritage Identifiers" used to catalog software artifacts in the early days of the [[Software Heritage]] archive<ref>{{Cite web |language=en |title=SoftWare Hash IDentifier (SWHID) |url=https://www.softwareheritage.org/software-hash-identifier-swhid/ |website=Software Heritage |access-date=2025-05-24}}</ref>. It later evolved into an open standard through a dedicated working group<ref>{{Cite web |language=en |title=SWHID working group |url=https://www.swhid.org/ |access-date=2025-05-24}}</ref> and was standardized as ISO in April 2025 under the more general name "Software Hash Identifier"<ref>{{Cite web |language=en |title=ISO/IEC 18670:2025 |url=https://www.iso.org/standard/89985.html |website=ISO |access-date=2025-05-24}}</ref>