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Archiving Research Software: What Survives Five Years?

In Proceedings of the International Conference on Open and Reproducible AI Research (OPENAIR 2026), pp. 41–46. Nairobi, Kenya, 19 Oct 2026.

DOI 10.xxxx/ctm.pr.2026.0015 · ID CTM-PR-2026-0015

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Menon, R. & Novak, I. (2026). Archiving Research Software: What Survives Five Years?. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Open and Reproducible AI Research (OPENAIR 2026) (pp. 41–46). CONTINUUM Proceedings. doi:10.xxxx/ctm.pr.2026.0015

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We attempt to build and run 400 research repositories released between 2019 and 2021. Only 38% still run without modification; the most common causes are unpinned dependencies and removed external data. Archived releases with lock files survive at more than twice the rate.

Keywords software preservation · reproducibility · dependencies

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Menon, R. & Novak, I. (2026). Archiving Research Software: What Survives Five Years?. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Open and Reproducible AI Research (OPENAIR 2026) (pp. 41–46). CONTINUUM Proceedings. doi:10.xxxx/ctm.pr.2026.0015

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