Spreading the Word Multithreading Software Preservation and Emulation August began with the day-long Multithreading Software Preservation and Emulation workshop at the Austin Public Library during the 2019 SAA Conference. The event included introductions to the Fostering Communities of Practice cohort …Continue EaaSI Update August – September 2019
How do you ensure you’re still on track with your strategic thinking, now that you’ve got the input and attention of more people? Further, how do you ensure that the goals you do create can be accomplished? The Steering Committee …Continue Crafting Community Goals: Reflections from SPN’s Steering Committee
The Solomon R. Guggenheim conservation department joined the “Fostering a Community of Practice: Software Preservation” cohort to look at documentation and metadata practices for computer-based artworks. Involvement in FCoP falls under the museum’s ongoing Conserving Computer-based Art initiative (CCBA) with …Continue FCoP 2019 Cohort Reflections: Guggenheim Museum
Living Computers: Museum + Labs (LCM+L) joined the Fostering a Community of Practice: Software Preservation cohort for the opportunity to test the Emulation-as-a-Service (EaaS) tool in our museum setting. LCM+L’s original project goal was to integrate a few of our …Continue FCoP 2019 Cohort Reflections: Living Computers: Museum + Labs
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
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
Tell us about the software preservation program at your organization. We don’t yet support software preservation programmatically. We primarily undertake software preservation as a means of supporting appraisal activities and accessing legacy scholarship. However, we have begun laying the groundwork …Continue Member Profile: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
First Site Visit: LCM+L Two weeks ago I visited the Living Computers: Museum + Labs in Seattle, Washington. LCM+L is a computing technology museum that features an impressive collection of early working computers from the late twentieth century, including a super computer, …Continue Field Report #3: Living Computers: Museum + Labs
Tell us about the software preservation program at your organization. We have a few projects around the Libraries that look at software preservation in various forms, but no formal software preservation program as a part of core digital archiving services. …Continue Member Profile: New York University
Hello friends In preparation for my first field site visit next week for the FCoP project I’m gathering supplies, resources, and tips for the next few months of visits and synthesis. For this research project, I’m going to try a …Continue Field Report #2: Methods, preparation, and tools
EaaSI presentation given at Open Repositories in Hamburg, Germany in June 2019
Introducing PortalMedia! In the first week of April, the EaaSI project team convened (in-person and virtually) with its newest member, PortalMedia, to kickoff planning for updates to the EaaSI system’s user experience and interface. PortalMedia comes to us from the great …Continue EaaSI Update April-May 2019
Oh hello! I’m Brandon Butler, the Law and Policy Advisor for SPN, and this is a new regular-ish blog feature called I am Not Your (Software) Lawyer. The name is apt, because although I am indeed a lawyer, I am not your …Continue Is Old Licensed Software Legal Kryptonite? Lessons from the Adobe Letter.
Eagle-eyed EaaSI-watchers may have noticed the “Student Staff” section on our team page – we’ve been extremely lucky over the course of the program to have employed a number of super talented Yale students, and want to highlight their amazing contributions to …Continue Navigating Legacy Software Collections