Preserving Musical Notation and Composition Software
Through Use and Emulation: Increasing Institutional Knowledge of Software Preservation with Computer Game Archiving
Archives
Emulation in the Middle Ages: Mainframes and Minicomputers
Through Use and Emulation: Increasing Institutional Knowledge of Software Preservation with Computer Game Archiving
Cohorts, FCoP
Through Use and Emulation: Increasing Institutional Knowledge of Software Preservation with Computer Game Archiving
Through Use and Emulation: Increasing Institutional Knowledge of Software Preservation with Computer Game Archiving
Cohorts, FCoP
Stacktrace: Volume 3, Issue 3 (Apr 2020 – May 2020)
The latest issue of SPN’s newsletter, Stacktrace, is now available! It includes: SPN Law & Policy Updates, including a Call for Remote Access DMCA Stories Upcoming Quarterly Community Forum featuring FCoP Cohort Updates from SPN affiliated projects (EaaSI and FCoP) …Continue Stacktrace: Volume 3, Issue 3 (Apr 2020 – May 2020)
News
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
Forums, Resources, Uncategorized
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
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
In-Person Meeting Exercises
EaaSI Node Leads convened in November 2018 to review the EaaSI beta implementation process, discuss service design for emulation in local organizational contexts, prioritize project activities and review the Participation Agreement drafted in partnership with the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw …Continue In-Person Meeting Exercises
Resources, Templates
Software Collections Inventory
EaaSI Software Collections Inventory is what is sometimes referred to as a Random (or spot) inventory. Random (or spot) inventories are extremely limited in scope. They are primarily used to verify the location of a representative sampling of objects. They …Continue Software Collections Inventory
Resources, Templates
Scenarios for (Re)Use & Access
EaaSI Scenarios for Use & Access asks each Node Host to brainstorm scenarios for use and access they believe will drive the adoption of EaaSI; identify users whose use cases they believe may correspond with the scenarios for use and …Continue Scenarios for (Re)Use & Access
Resources, Templates
Semi-Structured Interviews
EaaSI Scenarios for Use & Access asks each Node Host to brainstorm scenarios for use and access they believe will drive the adoption of EaaSI; identify users whose use cases they believe may correspond with the scenarios for use and …Continue Semi-Structured Interviews
Resources, Templates
Notre Dame University
As scientific research is increasingly born digital, more researchers are using computational resources for simulations and data analysis. Participating in EaaSI is a way we can act on cloud advantages for emulation processes in digital preservation. Our most compelling use …Continue Notre Dame University
Participants
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia Library is an enthusiastic participant through the Software Preservation Network in Yale’s Emulation As A Service Infrastructure (EaaSI) project. We are motivated strongly by the urgent need to preserve software in ways that make our preservation …Continue University of Virginia
Participants
University of California – San Diego
The UCSD Library’s Research Data Curation program has been working with UCSD researchers for over half a decade to curate and preserve the research data produced by our campus. Our large and quickly-growing collection of research data contains long-tail research …Continue University of California – San Diego
Participants
Stanford University
Stanford University has large collections of historic software which are currently inaccessible to our researchers. We are also actively collecting software that has been developed by our faculty for classroom use and by authors of digital publications for the Stanford …Continue Stanford University
Participants
Carnegie Mellon University
Most modern activities are dependent in some way or another on a dense network of software and its related technical dependencies. In order to ensure continued access to human knowledge production it is imperative that software preservation become a significant …Continue Carnegie Mellon University
Participants
Kat Thornton
Katherine Thornton is an information scientist working on creating metadata as linked open data. Kat works on the Scaling Emulation as a Service Infrastructure (EaaSI) project describing the software and configured environments in Wikidata. Kat has been a volunteer contributor …Continue Kat Thornton
Bios
Klaus Rechert
Klaus is a Computer Science researcher with a focus on functional preservation, emulation as a preservation strategy and digital forensics. Over the last 6 years, Klaus has assisted in the implementation of emulation solutions in a range of organizational types …Continue Klaus Rechert
Bios
Ethan Gates
Ethan Gates was a double English and Russian major at Amherst College and is a graduate of NYU’s MA program in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation. For several years he worked as NYU-MIAP’s staff Technician, coordinating equipment maintenance, use, and …Continue Ethan Gates
Bios
Euan Cochrane
Euan manages the Digital Preservation Services team at Yale University Library – responsible for the Library’s digital repository and providing related preservation services to the university. Euan is excited to see many years of emulation and software preservation work come …Continue Euan Cochrane