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CHM decodes technology—its computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity.
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Canadian Centre for Architecture
The Canadian Centre for Architecture is an international research institution and museum premised on the belief that architecture is a public concern.
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FCoP Update December 2019 – January 2020
Where to connect with FCoP Cohort members? A friendly reminder that you can find members of the FCoP cohort at IDCC in February facilitating the “Preparation and Process: Software Preservation and Emulation for Research Data” workshop (Tracy Popp @ University …Continue FCoP Update December 2019 – January 2020
News, Project Updates
EaaSI Update December 2019 – January 2020
Dotting the I’s and Crossing the T’s The beta release of the updated EaaSI UI is due for release in the coming month. As we approach this deadline, the teams at OpenSLX and PortalMedia are busy putting the final touches …Continue EaaSI Update December 2019 – January 2020
News, Project Updates
Emulating the International Monetary Fund Government Finance Statistics CD-ROMs (Node Reflections: Stanford)
Stanford University Libraries is thrilled to be participating in the Emulation-as-a-Service Infrastructure project (EaaSI). This is an effort to build a distributed network for sharing and preserving software led by Yale University Libraries with the generous support of the Andrew …Continue Emulating the International Monetary Fund Government Finance Statistics CD-ROMs (Node Reflections: Stanford)
News, Staff Updates
SPN 2019 Highlights
Welcome to 2020! We hope that everyone enjoyed the winter holidays and a peaceful transition to the New Year. As we look ahead to the year ahead, we are thrilled to share a sampling of Software Preservation Network activities, accomplishments, …Continue SPN 2019 Highlights
News
Google v. Oracle: A Landmark Software Copyright Case
This term the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Oracle v. Google, a major software copyright case. SPN members should keep a close watch on this case, as it could shape the scope of copyright protection for software as well as …Continue Google v. Oracle: A Landmark Software Copyright Case
Law Posts, News
Jessica Meyerson
As SPN’s Interim Community Facilitator, Jessica Meyerson works closely with the SPN Coordinating Committee to ensure that our work adheres to core principles of transparency, responsiveness, and engagement.
Bios, Staff
Brandon Butler
As SPN Law & Policy Advisor, Brandon Butler oversees SPN’s policy agenda and legal strategy for securing lawful preservation, sharing and reuse of software. Components of this work may include developing SPN policy briefs; representing SPN in future DMCA exemption …Continue Brandon Butler
Bios, Staff
EaaSI Update October-November 2019
The Future of EaaSI October 3, 2020 marked the first time every member of the EaaSI team was gathered in the same place. Team members came to New Haven came from Germany, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin to present the achievements …Continue EaaSI Update October-November 2019
News, Project Updates
FCoP Update October-November 2019
FCoP Reflections Blog Post Series: Continuing our FCoP Reflections Blog Post Series, we are happy to share posts from Georgia Tech and University of Illinois: Wendy Hagenmaier of Georgia Tech writes about skunkworks in the library, building bridges between data …Continue FCoP Update October-November 2019
News, Project Updates
FCoP 2019 Cohort Reflections: University of Arizona
As the project lead for the University of Arizona FCoP project team, I’ve realized that preserving and providing access to software is a lot like a jigsaw puzzle for three reasons: 1) it takes (a lot of) time to put …Continue FCoP 2019 Cohort Reflections: University of Arizona
Cohort Reflections, FCoP, News
Soup to Nuts: Simulating Software
The purpose of the Soup to Nuts exercise is to revisit your Software & Collection Inventory and Scenarios for Use & Access to determine if those software cases/examples are still the cases/examples that you want to configure and test in …Continue Soup to Nuts: Simulating Software
Resources, Templates
Field Report #5: University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Keeping Software Present with Emulation in the Archives It’s been a few months since my last fieldwork visit for the FCoP project! In August, I was hosted by cohort team member Lauren Work at the UVA Library. …Continue Field Report #5: University of Virginia
Field Reports, News
FCoP 2019 Cohort Reflections: Georgia Tech
retroTECH is a service and a lab space in the Georgia Tech Library. Our mission is to inspire a culture of long-term thinking, hands-on access to technological heritage, and individual agency over personal histories, archives, and data. It’s also a …Continue FCoP 2019 Cohort Reflections: Georgia Tech
Cohort Reflections, News
FCoP 2019 Cohort Reflections: University of Illinois
Staff from the University Library at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign joined the “Fostering a Community of Practice: Software Preservation” cohort for the opportunity to focus on continued development on preservation of and access to born digital collections held in …Continue FCoP 2019 Cohort Reflections: University of Illinois
Cohort Reflections, FCoP, News
Software Preservation Networks Joins Amicus Brief Filed with the Supreme Court
Last week, the Software Preservation Network joined an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court. In this blog post, I’ll say a little bit about the case, Allen v. Cooper, and, since this is the first time SPN has joined an …Continue Software Preservation Networks Joins Amicus Brief Filed with the Supreme Court
Law Posts, News
Software Curation: Intersection of Policy and Practice
Panel presentation at Maintainers III in Washington, D.C. in October 2019 featuring perspectives on the materials that have to be maintained around the software in order to make the software meaningful including: research data curation librarian, service provider, legal expert, …Continue Software Curation: Intersection of Policy and Practice
Presentations, Resources
FCoP Update August-September 2019
FCoP Reflections Blog Post Series: In our last STACKTRACE update, we announced the kick-off of the FCoP Reflections Blog Post Series running August through May 2020 (the end of the FCoP grant). We are excited to share our first two …Continue FCoP Update August-September 2019