Monthly Archives: April 2020

Summer 2020 Quarterly Community Forum

Featuring: Virtual roundtable introducing the work of Fostering Communities of Practice (FCoP) cohort members and research themes from FCoP Project Researcher Brief overview of the FCoP project outcomes Brief summary of research findings Roundtable discussion with FCoP cohort members facilitated …Continue Summer 2020 Quarterly Community Forum

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Law & Policy Working Group Scope and Action Plan

Scope: The Software Preservation Network endeavors to ensure that cultural memory institutions and related entities can exercise broad and clear legal rights to engage in software preservation (including providing access for research, teaching, and learning). We do this in two …Continue Law & Policy Working Group Scope and Action Plan

Publications, Resources

Software Preservation Quarterly Community Forum (Fall 2020)

The Software Preservation Network invites you to join us for the upcoming Quarterly Software Curation & Preservation Community Forum taking place on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 8 am PT-10 am CT-11 am ET-3 pm UTC. Each quarter, we invite …Continue Software Preservation Quarterly Community Forum (Fall 2020)

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FCoP Update February – March 2020

Outreach and Advocacy International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) We initially announced acceptance of FCoP cohort proposals to IDCC and Code4Lib 2020 in our November – October 2019 update and both events took place in the last two months. IDCC took …Continue FCoP Update February – March 2020

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A Law and Policy Bonanza for SPN in February and March 2020

It’s been an extremely busy couple of months in the law and policy realm for SPN. We have multiple Supreme Court case updates, comments filed on the next Register of Copyrights, and much, much more. Here’s the bullet-point version: The …Continue A Law and Policy Bonanza for SPN in February and March 2020

Law Posts, News

Stacktrace: Volume 3, Issue 2 (Feb 2020 – Mar 2020)

The latest issue of SPN’s newsletter, Stacktrace, is now available! It includes: SPN-wide initiatives, including a bonanza of law and policy activities  Upcoming Quarterly Community Forum A COVID-19 reading list and resources Updates from SPN affiliated projects (EaaSI and FCoP) …Continue Stacktrace: Volume 3, Issue 2 (Feb 2020 – Mar 2020)

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EaaSI Update February – March 2020

EaaSI at Home EaaSI staff have had to adjust as we, our home institutions, and our project partners all look to put the safety of our communities above all. We are fortunate that our distributed team very quickly transitioned to …Continue EaaSI Update February – March 2020

News, Project Updates

FCoP 2020 Cohort Reflections: University of Illinois

Involvement with the FCoP cohort has afforded and required prioritization of my attention and resources to closely engage with software preservation and emulation concerns. Our institution is steadily acquiring born-digital collections some of which include content created in complex, domain-specific …Continue FCoP 2020 Cohort Reflections: University of Illinois

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FCoP 2020 Cohort Reflections: Georgia Tech

“I will be graduating with my degree in Computer Science at the end of this year. My junior design project is actually sourced around being able to use technology to connect medical mission trips to areas like Haiti and Vietnam …Continue FCoP 2020 Cohort Reflections: Georgia Tech

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