Software Database
Every foreign SaaS tool is a potential backdoor for extraterritorial data access. We track what France (SILL), Germany (openCode), Denmark, and other European countries recommend — and aggregate their government-vetted catalogs into one searchable database with sovereign alternatives.
4,400+ software products from government-vetted catalogs across Europe, mapped with sovereign alternatives
The Software Database aggregates software from multiple government-vetted and expert-curated catalogs into a unified, searchable catalog. Each product is deduplicated, categorized across four taxonomies, and enriched with vendor information, alternatives mappings, and sovereignty assessments.
error_outline The Problem
Organizations want to reduce dependency on foreign-controlled software, but there is no single catalog of European and open-source alternatives. Government-vetted lists exist in France, Germany, and Italy — but they use different formats, categories, and identifiers. Finding what is available, where it comes from, and whether a sovereign alternative exists requires searching multiple sources manually.
Data Sources
warning The Challenges
The same software appears across catalogs with different identifiers. Each catalog uses its own category system. Raw catalog data lacks context. We solve this with 942 product mappings, 10,415+ lines of category mappings, and Wikidata enrichment.
autorenew Goal: Fully Automated Pipeline
A weekly automated pipeline that scrapes all sources, auto-suggests canonical ID mappings using fuzzy matching, and publishes the updated catalog — flagging conflicts for human review without blocking the pipeline.
How We Solve Them
Deduplication
Ansible appears as ansible, red-hat-ansible, and ansible-automation-platform depending on the source. We maintain a canonical registry with 942 product mappings across 4,400+ raw entries.
Category Harmonization
CNCF uses technical hierarchies, SILL France uses publiccode.yml, Euro-Stack uses business focus. We map all to four standardized taxonomies: Technical (43), Developer (26), Business (28), Platforms (8).
Data Enrichment
Enrich products using Wikidata for vendor information and web search to validate descriptions and find missing homepages.