Baseline Cost Measurement
This purpose of the baseline cost calculator is to capture as much granular information about the costs of software preservation in different organizational contexts as possible – inlcuding start-up costs. We understand that every organization will vary in terms of …Continue Baseline Cost Measurement
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EaaSI Wikidata Report: July 2018
This report describes the current state of entity data in the Wikidata knowledge base for the domain of computing between January 2018 and July 2018.
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Software Preservation and Public Accountability: Moving the Needle
This episode explores the coupling of software preservation to public accountability – and explore the role of community governance on the one hand and the design of information systems on the other as complements to formal legal mechanisms for ensuring …Continue Software Preservation and Public Accountability: Moving the Needle
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Overview of Current Trends and Their Legal Implications
This episode provides an overview of copyright and other legal considerations surrounding software preservation, sharing and reuse. Guests explore the “square peg, round hole” relationship between software and copyright; and examine differences in intellectual property regimes between the United Kingdom …Continue Overview of Current Trends and Their Legal Implications
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Scaling Software Preservation and Emulation
This episode will explore current programmatic and project based initiatives to create the processes and infrastructure that will support a growing number of software (re)use cases/organizational users. Guests will highlight challenges and opportunities associated with scaling an institutional software preservation …Continue Scaling Software Preservation and Emulation
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Software in Digital/Scholarly Communications
This episode provides an overview of scholarly communication practices as they relate to software preservation and citation within contemporary scholarly research methods. Attention is paid to evolving and changing practices in a variety of institutional settings (e.g. post-secondary institutions , …Continue Software in Digital/Scholarly Communications
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Software Collection Development
This episode reviews existing software collections and the users of those collections. In order to better capture current efforts in collecting software, Research & Facilitation Lead, Anne-Marie Trepanier, provides different collection profiles and the set of features that characterize each …Continue Software Collection Development
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EaaSI Wikidata Report: April 2018
This report describes the current state of entity data in the Wikidata knowledge base for the domain of computing January, 2018 to April, 2018.
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Software Preservation Overview
The Software Preservation Webinar Series provides a survey of software preservation contexts. Each episode explores a different software preservation context by providing an overview, discussion with guest speakers (specialists in digital preservation, software studies, scholarly communication, open source software and …Continue Software Preservation Overview
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Complex Data Sets, Software Preservation and Emulation: A distributed approach to long-term care
EaaSI presentation at Research Data Archiving & Preservation Summit in Chicago, Ilinois in March 2018
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Exploring Curation-ready Software: Use Cases
The Curation Ready Software working group endeavors to develop use-case driven guidelines for improving the quality of preserved software given available resources (“curation-readiness”), including expertise, technical infrastructure, and time.The Software Preservation Network’s Curation-ready Software working group endeavors to develop use-case …Continue Exploring Curation-ready Software: Use Cases
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Exploring Curation-ready Software: Improving Curation-readiness
This report is a continuation of Exploring Curation-ready Software: Use Cases by Rios et al. (2017) The Software Preservation Network’s Curation-ready Software working group endeavors to develop use-case driven guidelines for improving the quality of preserved software given available resources …Continue Exploring Curation-ready Software: Improving Curation-readiness
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Exploring Curation-ready Software:Improving Curation-readiness
This is the second report of the Software Preservation Network Curation-ready Software Working Group. Seven use cases of software preservation are presented in detail
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Exploring Curation-ready Software: Use Cases
This is the first progress report of the Software Preservation Network Curation-ready Software Working Group.
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Software Preservation Network Series: Prospects in Software Preservatoin Partnerships
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Software Preservation Network Series: Collecting, Processing, and Providing Access to Software
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Software Preservation Network Series: Legal & Policy Aspects of Software Preservation
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Co-Determinacy of User Needs and Preservation Methods: Software Preservation Literature Review
This literature review was completed in 2014. Introduction to Software Preservation Experts in cultural heritage preservation have acknowledged the cultural impact and the associated preservation challenges of digital records since at least the 1980s (Peterson, 1984). Since the 1990s, the …Continue Co-Determinacy of User Needs and Preservation Methods: Software Preservation Literature Review