The EaaSI (Yale University) and Fostering a Community of Practice (Cal Poly) projects, both affiliated efforts of the Software Preservation Network (SPN), invites your participation for a full-day workshop in August 2019, in conjunction with the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, to explore software …Continue Multithreading Software Preservation: A Software Preservation and Emulation Workshop
The latest issue of SPN’s newsletter, Stacktrace, is now available! It includes: SPN-wide initiatives, including a list of our 2019 accomplishments Software Preservation Bibliography Published by SPN’s Training & Education Working Group Updates from SPN affiliated projects (EaaSI and FCoP) …Continue Stacktrace: Volume 3, Issue 1 (Dec 2019 – Jan 2020)
Presentation given at the 2020 Librarians Building Momentum for Reproducible Research virtual conference.
This report describes the current state of entity data in the Wikidata knowledge base for the domain of computing between January 2018 and January 2020.
Featuring: Software Heritage Acquisition Process (based on work with the University of Pisa) “Experimental Archaeology of CAD” – Legacy Software and Emulation in the Classroom Silicon Valley Archives GitHub Arctic Archive Review notes for the Winter 2019 QCF
The latest issue of SPN’s newsletter, Stacktrace, is now available! It includes: SPN Wins NDSA Innovation Award Upcoming Software Preservation Quarterly Community Forum and Law & Policy Chat Updates from SPN affiliated projects (EaaSI and FCoP) Read the full issue …Continue Stacktrace: Volume 2, Issue 6 (Oct 2019 – Nov 2019)
This report describes the current state of entity data in the Wikidata knowledge base for the domain of computing between January 2018 and October 2019.
Presentation at the NYU Institute for Fine Arts’ workshop “Digital Preservation: Caring for Digital Art Objects.”
The latest issue of SPN’s newsletter, Stacktrace, is now available! It includes: SPN’s Research Working Group Presents at iPres 2019 Member Profiles Published for Duke University, MIT Libraries, and University of Virginia Library Updates from SPN affiliated projects (EaaSI and …Continue Stacktrace: Volume 2, Issue 5 (Aug 2019 – Sept 2019)
Featuring: “How to talk to your organizational legal counsel about software preservation?” Investigating and Archiving the Scholarly Git Experience – how scholars are currently using Git within research and education, and any way they use it to bolster their scholarship …Continue Fall 2019 Quarterly Community Forum
The latest issue of SPN’s newsletter, Stacktrace, is now available! It includes: Recap of “Multithreading Software Preservation: A Software Preservation and Emulation Workshop” held in Austin, TX on August 2, 2019 Member Profiles Published for University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign, New York …Continue Stacktrace: Volume 2, Issue 4 (June 2019 – July 2019)
Summary: This webinar, entitled “Why EaaSI? System Overview,” addresses questions such as: What problem is EaaSI trying to solve? What are EaaSI core functions and underlying design concepts? Why are approaching it this way? How is EaaSI different from EaaS? …Continue Why EaaSI? System Overview
Summary: This webinar, entitled “Legal and Institutional Policy Frameworks,” addresses questions such as: When you don’t collect software as an object, why do you do it? What role(s) does/do software play in your organizations and their long-term collection and preservation …Continue Legal and Institutional Policy Frameworks
This report describes the current state of entity data in the Wikidata knowledge base for the domain of computing between January 2018 and July 2019.
Featuring: Structured community brainstorm Software Heritage persistent identifiers for software and the “save now” feature The personal and professional journey of an open source software maintainer Computers science students explore software preservation for “Amsterdam, the Digital City” Time-related metadata in …Continue Summer 2019 Quarterly Community Forum
The latest issue of SPN’s newsletter, Stacktrace, is now available! It includes: Upcoming Software Preservation Quarterly Community Forum New Working Group Members Updates from SPN affiliated projects (EaaSI and FCoP) Read the full issue here: STACKTRACE News from Software Preservation …Continue Stacktrace: Volume 2, Issue 3 (Apr 2019 – May 2019)
This report describes the current state of entity data in the Wikidata knowledge base for the domain of computing between January 2018 and April 2019.
The latest issue of SPN’s newsletter, Stacktrace, is now available! It includes: SPN Staff Software Profiles Published Software Preservation Quarterly Community Forum Recap Updates from SPN affiliated projects (EaaSI and FCoP) Read the full issue here: STACKTRACE News from Software …Continue Stacktrace: Volume 2, Issue 2 (Feb 2019 – Mar 2019)
In the past nine months the EaaSI development team worked hard to adapt and improve the EaaS code-base to cope with the challenges and requirements of truly distributed emulation service. Sharing Environments with Network Nodes The main goal of the …Continue EaaSI Software Development Update
Featuring: The growth of research software engineering Preservation Quality Tool IDCC Workshop: From Data Curation to Software Curation: Enhancing Reproducibility and Sustainability of Data and Software Empirical research into How are software preservation practices applied in different contexts How are …Continue Spring 2019 Quarterly Community Forum