Tell us about the software preservation program at your organization. Sherry: “UVA is increasingly committed to software preservation from an archival and preservation view, thanks in large part to a growing group of Library staff members involved in the Software …Continue Member Profile: University of Virginia Library
Second Site Visit: GeorgiaTech Hi y’all, In July I visited the Georgia Tech Library’s Retrocomputing Lab also known as retroTECH! Located in the Special Collections and Archives unit, this lab’s mission is focused on supporting the Georgia Tech campus community in …Continue Field Report #4: GeorgiaTech retroTECH
Greetings from Claire Fox, EaaSI Summer Intern My name is Claire Fox, and I’m a graduate student in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at New York University. I’ve been spending my summer at Yale University Libraries Digital Preservation …Continue Who Preserves EaaSI?: In Pursuit of an EaaSI Preservation Package
Tell us about the software preservation program at your organization. Software preservation is a continuing need at MIT. MIT Libraries preserves the scholarly research outcomes of the Institute, which are often comprised of software or software-dependent data. We also have many archival …Continue Member Profile: MIT Libraries
Tell us about the software preservation program at your organization. Currently at Duke University, we preserve a variety of digital objects within our repository and preservation programs including research data, code and script files, born digital materials, records generated by …Continue Member Profile: Duke University Libraries
The latest issue of SPN’s newsletter, Stacktrace, is now available! It includes: Recap of “Multithreading Software Preservation: A Software Preservation and Emulation Workshop” held in Austin, TX on August 2, 2019 Member Profiles Published for University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign, New York …Continue Stacktrace: Volume 2, Issue 4 (June 2019 – July 2019)
New Reflections Blog Post Series: From August through May 2020 (the end of the FCoP grant), we’ll feature 1-2 blog posts per month from different cohort members. These posts are reflections on their experience so far and will address questions …Continue FCoP Update June – July 2019
EaaSI Open Source Software Sandbox We were thrilled to release the EaaSI Open Source Software Sandbox on July 17!. The Sandbox is open to the public and includes sample emulation environments with open source operating systems and applications. We wanted …Continue EaaSI Update June-July 2019
As librarians at a university, one of the most common questions that we get is: “Can I access articles from (newspaper) around (time period)?” History as it’s been told in newspapers and articles has value across many different researchers and communities, …Continue Saving Data Journalism: Using ReproZip-Web to Capture Dynamic Websites for Future Reuse
Summary: This webinar, entitled “Why EaaSI? System Overview,” addresses questions such as: What problem is EaaSI trying to solve? What are EaaSI core functions and underlying design concepts? Why are approaching it this way? How is EaaSI different from EaaS? …Continue Why EaaSI? System Overview
Summary: This webinar, entitled “Legal and Institutional Policy Frameworks,” addresses questions such as: When you don’t collect software as an object, why do you do it? What role(s) does/do software play in your organizations and their long-term collection and preservation …Continue Legal and Institutional Policy Frameworks