This document is intended to serve as a master workflow for software preservation practice at the University of Illinois. It outlines the major task categories of acquiring, cataloging, structuring, imaging, quality assurance (QA)/quality control (QC) testing and ingesting the software …Continue University of Illinois Software Preservation Procedures Workflow
This fillable spreadsheet assists end-users in planning and documenting an install workflow.
This document assists end-users in navigating the Digital Content Format Registry. This is intended for those who want to review the registry entries. The Digital Content Format Registry is open to the public – no login is required. Authentication is …Continue University of Illinois Digital Content Format Registry
This document identifies three classes of digital curation action events (media reformatting, software acquisition, digital content format research request) and next steps to starting the curation action.
Addendum to the deed of gift for electronic records. This document is intended to further disclose issues which a donor may not have with regard to donating their collections and prompting for an explicit permission\denial in undertaking digital curation work. …Continue University of Illinois Addendum To Deed of Gift
This document discloses key points to donors as they consider donating their digital materials. Intended to provide transparency and aid in informed consent of content donation, it should be part of a pre-acquisition workflow.
This document provides information on how content and media that a curator is interested in acquiring may be evaluated for preservation concerns. Includes assessing for file format challenges and software preservation and emulation concerns.
This document provides additional local information on the use of EaaSI at the University of Illinois libraries.
This informational document provides a brief overview of emulation, past and present forays into its use and general approach to future use of emulation at the University of Illinois libraries.
Project Updates The next major release of the EaaSI platform is out!!! EaaSI “v2020.03” (forgive us the delay, but we’re sure everyone understands) incorporates PortalMedia’s beautiful new UI design on top of the nodes’ familiar Emulation-as-a-Service functionality, and went out …Continue EaaSI Update April – May 2020
Capstone meeting On April 27th, the FCoP cohort leads, research fellow (Amelia Acker, PhD), and project staff convened for the culminating final meeting of the project to share lessons-learned and begin exploring an agenda for future work within the broad …Continue FCoP Update April – May 2020
Every day we all make choices about our individual digital legacies through what we create, keep, and share. Software mediates all of those activities. The 2020 Software Preservation and Emulation Symposium provided an opportunity to discuss our dependence on software …Continue Software Preservation and Emulation @ Stanford: A Symposium
Presentation given at iPRES 2019
As FCoP Project Researcher, Dr. Acker was selected to participate in the project by researching three of the six cohort teams in action, implementing emulation in their software preservation programs. Dr. Acker is an Assistant Professor in the School of …Continue Amelia Acker
Formal comments submitted by the Software Preservation Network to the Office of Science and Technology Policy in response to a Request for Information regarding “Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications, Data and Code Resulting From Federally Funded Research.” Thank you …Continue Comments of the Software Preservation Network in re Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications, Data and Code Resulting From Federally Funded Research
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)
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
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)
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
