Introduction This interest group will provide a forum to discuss issues on management, sharing, discovery, archival and provenance of software source code. The group will pay special attention to source code that generates research data and plays an important role in scientific publications. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) mission is to build the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data. Software (as source code and executables) and data are intrinsically linked, both to ensure continued creation, analysis and reuse of...