The SWHID scheme has now reached version 1.2, been adopted as an ISO standard, and recently relaunched its website.
- current version: 1.2
- ISO accreditation: ISO/IEC 18670:2025 adopted on 23 April 2025
- community document: SWHID Specification - SWHID.org
- relaunched website: https://www.swhid.org
The official ISO document costs CHF 98 / € 106 / USD 124. The community version 1.2 is identical, free of charge, and distributed under a Community‑Spec‑1.0 license.
If you need to refer to software artifacts, at any level of resolution, this scheme is recommended.
The project is led by Roberto Di Cosmo, a computer science professor at IRIF/Paris Cité University, France. It has strong roots in the free and open source software movement.