Hi Y’all Today I am excited to share with you my first field report as the designated FCoP researcher with updates about kicking off fieldwork this summer. Before I jump into some updates about my research fieldwork, I wanted to describe what …Continue Field Report #1: IRB Approval and Planning Site Visits
1. What is ShEx? Shape Expressions, commonly known as ShEx, is a constraint language for modeling and validating RDF data. As stated in this paper (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2042/paper40.pdf ), XML Schema is to XML what ShEx is to RDF. A great place to …Continue Using ShEx to Investigate Data about Software and File Formats in Wikidata
When we released the beta version of the EaaSI software on March 5, our hope was to learn from putting the software in action. Yes, we wanted to identify bugs and errors in the system, but we also wanted to …Continue EaasI Up to the Test: Users Identify Areas for Improvement
Preface The release of the EaaSI beta is an opportunity for the project team to learn about the EaaSI Network functionality in action. As environments are created and shared, we expect to uncover bugs in the software and challenges running …Continue Beta Deployment: EaaSI in AWS or Bust!
In this seventh and final episode of a series about using the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use, you’ll learn: Why licensing isn’t a viable solution to copyright issues in preservation projects with global reach How U.S. fair use …Continue International Implications
In this sixth episode in a seven-part series about using the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use, you’ll learn: The difference between a document and a shift in practice How other communities have incorporated fair use into their professional …Continue Making the Code Part of Software Preservation Culture
FCoP Cohort Activity Cohort Documentation In February, the FCoP cohort participants compiled a list of external resources they have used, consulted, or otherwise employed in their course of their individual FCoP projects. FCoP External Resources reflects the wide range of tasks and …Continue FCoP Update February – March 2019
EaaSI Beta Release During the months of February and March, the EaaSI Project Team put the finishing touches on the beta release of the EaaSI software. In February, team members conducted internal testing of the system. Tests focused on new …Continue EaaSI Update February-March 2019
In this fifth episode in a seven-part series about using the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use, you’ll learn : What the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions are and how they relate to copyright, fair use, and the Code How the …Continue Understanding the Anti-circumvention Rules and the Preservation Exemptions
In this third episode in a seven-part series about using the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use, you’ll learn about: How fair use enables institutions to provide access to software for use in research, teaching, and learning settings while …Continue Working with Source Code and Software Licenses
In this third episode in a seven-part series about using the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use, you’ll learn about: How fair use enables institutions to provide access to software for use in research, teaching, and learning settings while …Continue Making Software Available Within Institutions and Networks
In the second episode in the series, speakers cover how to read the Situations in the Code (parsing descriptions, Principles, and Limitations), and explore how fair use applies to the foundational steps in a preservation workflow including stabilizing, describing, evaluating, …Continue Beginning the Preservation Workflow
In this introduction to the webinar series about using the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation, you’ll learn: What the Code is What the copyright doctrine of fair use is How it addresses problems such as …Continue The Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Software Preservation, Why and How?
Originally published: 02-18-2019 | Beta release update: 04-02-2019 As we roll through (and beyond!) the beta release, our documentation is expanding, just as we planned below. Drafting test cases and protocols for the nodes led to a swift expansion of …Continue Hickory Dickory Docs: Crafting a Documentation Plan for EaaSI
Panel presentation at PASIG in Mexico City, Mexico in February 2019 featuring perspectives from different niches in the software curation ecosystem including: software sustinability trainer, software preservation and emulation infrastructure providers, a disciplinary liasion, and a legal expert.
We’re a year in to the program of work funded by the Andrew W. Mellon and Alfred P. Sloan foundations to scale access to emulation and software preservation infrastructure and significant progress has been made. I’m going to use my …Continue Making Things EaaSIer: Overview from EaaSI’s PI
The Software Preservation Network (SPN) Research Working Group invites you to participate in a survey on practices, needs, and gaps related to software preservation. Why Does This Matter? For decades, researchers and practitioners in information science, digital preservation, and allied fields have …Continue Service Provider Survey
New EaaSI Website As you may have noticed – EaaSI now has an extensible program subsite within the redesigned SPN website. As an affiliated program of SPN, EaaSI (thanks to support from the Sloan and Mellon Foundations) provided financial support …Continue EaaSI Update November 2018 – January 2019
FCoP Cohort Activities Emulation Sandbox Testing With the FCoP projects well under way at 6 different locations across the country, many groups are engaging with the complexities of software emulation and the EaaS platform since September 2018. The cohort shares …Continue FCoP Update Nov 2018-Jan 2019
Dedicated Backbone Support Thanks to the investment of SPN members, we now have dedicated staff to scale up and support SPN’s organizational infrastructure. This is a significant win for all those involved in SPN past and future activities – filling a critical …Continue SPN Launch: January 2019