Member Profile: University of Virginia Library
Tell us about the software preservation program at your organization. Sherry: “UVA is increasingly committed to software preservation from an archival and preservation view, thanks in large part to a growing group of Library staff members involved in the Software …Continue Member Profile: University of Virginia Library
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Field Report #4: GeorgiaTech retroTECH
Second Site Visit: GeorgiaTech Hi y’all, In July I visited the Georgia Tech Library’s Retrocomputing Lab also known as retroTECH! Located in the Special Collections and Archives unit, this lab’s mission is focused on supporting the Georgia Tech campus community in …Continue Field Report #4: GeorgiaTech retroTECH
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Who Preserves EaaSI?: In Pursuit of an EaaSI Preservation Package
Greetings from Claire Fox, EaaSI Summer Intern My name is Claire Fox, and I’m a graduate student in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at New York University. I’ve been spending my summer at Yale University Libraries Digital Preservation …Continue Who Preserves EaaSI?: In Pursuit of an EaaSI Preservation Package
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Member Profile: MIT Libraries
Tell us about the software preservation program at your organization. Software preservation is a continuing need at MIT. MIT Libraries preserves the scholarly research outcomes of the Institute, which are often comprised of software or software-dependent data. We also have many archival …Continue Member Profile: MIT Libraries
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Member Profile: Duke University Libraries
Tell us about the software preservation program at your organization. Currently at Duke University, we preserve a variety of digital objects within our repository and preservation programs including research data, code and script files, born digital materials, records generated by …Continue Member Profile: Duke University Libraries
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Stacktrace: Volume 2, Issue 4 (June 2019 – July 2019)
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)
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FCoP Update June – July 2019
New Reflections Blog Post Series: From August through May 2020 (the end of the FCoP grant), we’ll feature 1-2 blog posts per month from different cohort members. These posts are reflections on their experience so far and will address questions …Continue FCoP Update June – July 2019
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EaaSI Update June-July 2019
EaaSI Open Source Software Sandbox We were thrilled to release the EaaSI Open Source Software Sandbox on July 17!. The Sandbox is open to the public and includes sample emulation environments with open source operating systems and applications. We wanted …Continue EaaSI Update June-July 2019
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Saving Data Journalism: Using ReproZip-Web to Capture Dynamic Websites for Future Reuse
As librarians at a university, one of the most common questions that we get is: “Can I access articles from (newspaper) around (time period)?” History as it’s been told in newspapers and articles has value across many different researchers and communities, …Continue Saving Data Journalism: Using ReproZip-Web to Capture Dynamic Websites for Future Reuse
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Member Profile: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Tell us about the software preservation program at your organization. We don’t yet support software preservation programmatically. We primarily undertake software preservation as a means of supporting appraisal activities and accessing legacy scholarship. However, we have begun laying the groundwork …Continue Member Profile: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Field Report #3: Living Computers: Museum + Labs
First Site Visit: LCM+L Two weeks ago I visited the Living Computers: Museum + Labs in Seattle, Washington. LCM+L is a computing technology museum that features an impressive collection of early working computers from the late twentieth century, including a super computer, …Continue Field Report #3: Living Computers: Museum + Labs
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Member Profile: New York University
Tell us about the software preservation program at your organization. We have a few projects around the Libraries that look at software preservation in various forms, but no formal software preservation program as a part of core digital archiving services. …Continue Member Profile: New York University
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Field Report #2: Methods, preparation, and tools
Hello friends In preparation for my first field site visit next week for the FCoP project I’m gathering supplies, resources, and tips for the next few months of visits and synthesis. For this research project, I’m going to try a …Continue Field Report #2: Methods, preparation, and tools
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Stacktrace: Volume 2, Issue 3 (Apr 2019 – May 2019)
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)
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EaaSI Update April-May 2019
Introducing PortalMedia! In the first week of April, the EaaSI project team convened (in-person and virtually) with its newest member, PortalMedia, to kickoff planning for updates to the EaaSI system’s user experience and interface. PortalMedia comes to us from the great …Continue EaaSI Update April-May 2019
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Is Old Licensed Software Legal Kryptonite? Lessons from the Adobe Letter.
Oh hello! I’m Brandon Butler, the Law and Policy Advisor for SPN, and this is a new regular-ish blog feature called I am Not Your (Software) Lawyer. The name is apt, because although I am indeed a lawyer, I am not your …Continue Is Old Licensed Software Legal Kryptonite? Lessons from the Adobe Letter.
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Navigating Legacy Software Collections
Eagle-eyed EaaSI-watchers may have noticed the “Student Staff” section on our team page – we’ve been extremely lucky over the course of the program to have employed a number of super talented Yale students, and want to highlight their amazing contributions to …Continue Navigating Legacy Software Collections
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Field Report #1: IRB Approval and Planning Site Visits
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
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Using ShEx to Investigate Data about Software and File Formats in Wikidata
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
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EaasI Up to the Test: Users Identify Areas for Improvement
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