Making Software Available Within Institutions and Networks

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

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Beginning the Preservation Workflow

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

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3D/VR in the Academic Library: Emerging Trends and Practices

3D/VR Preservation: Drawing on a Common Agenda for Collective Impact Digital curation is now part of the repertoire of all computationally dependent domains, requiring mechanisms for alignment to address common digital curation challenges that are beyond the scope of any …Continue 3D/VR in the Academic Library: Emerging Trends and Practices

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The Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Software Preservation, Why and How?

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?

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Software Curation: An Ecosystem of Users, Tools, and Services

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.

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EaaSI Wikidata Report: January 2019

This report describes the current state of entity data in the Wikidata knowledge base for the domain of computing between January 2018 and January 2019.

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DSHR’s Blog: Software Preservation Network

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Winter 2018 Quarterly Community Forum

Featuring: Software Controlled Vocabulary EaaSI In-Person Kick-Off Meeting (use cases, network architecture, governance and more) FCoP Update & SPN Research in Practice Working Group 1201 exemption to break TPMs and UNESCO Meeting in Paris for the “Software as Heritage” Declaration …Continue Winter 2018 Quarterly Community Forum

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Prioritizing Software

This purpose of Prioritizing Software is to expose Node Hosts to National Software Reference Library software categories and their contribution to the EaaSI seed library; to provide an overview of the EaaSI software configuration workflow; and to connect the software …Continue Prioritizing Software

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Prioritizing Features

This purpose of Prioritizing Features is to encourage Node Hosts to articulate and prioritize possible features for each feature category of the EaaSI system including Search/Discovery Resource Import Environment Configuration Metadata/Description User Management User Interface Network Capabilities Data Management Access …Continue Prioritizing Features

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Envisioning Local Services

This purpose of the Envisioning Local Services exercise is to help your organization consider the specifics of the local service environment and create a list of short, medium and long-term goals that will help to bring software preservation and emulation …Continue Envisioning Local Services

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EaaSI Wikidata Report: October 2018

This report describes the current state of entity data in the Wikidata knowledge base for the domain of computing between January 2018 and October 2018.

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Scaling Software Preservation & Emulation Services

EaaSI presentation at Digital Library Forum in Las Vegas, Nevada in October 2018.

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Participatory Design for Software Preservation and Emulation Services

EaaSI presentation given at International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES) in Boston, Massachusetts in September 2018

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Fall 2018 Quarterly Community Forum

Featuring: Community Standards for 3D Preservation Fostering Communities of Practice cohort projects Conservation of computer-based art at the Guggenheim Museum Software Sustainability Software Deposit Guidelines for Researchers Review notes for the Fall 2018 QCF

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FCoP Software Metadata Template

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FCoP Software Collections Inventory Template

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Six Month Software Curation Plan

The purpose of this session is to develop a clearer sense of the project-specific and cohort goals over the next six months.

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Scenarios for Use & Access

The purpose of the Scenarios for Use and Access exercise is to articulate potential software (re)use and access scenarios, and to inform/verify your assumptions regarding (re)use and access scenarios by observing an end user.

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FCoP Documenting Digital Curation Template

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