What is EAASI
EaaSI is open-source software, managed by Yale’s project team, that facilitates interactive, controlled access to digital cultural heritage and research by making emulation easier. The EaaSI software and user community aim to make emulation more accessible to practitioners, empowering the goals of digital stewardship organizations around the world.
EaaSI and SPN have grown up together, starting when SPN established a relationship with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society regarding copyright and licensing for software preservation and reuse, which has been essential to the evolution of EAASI. Over the last 7 years, SPN and EAASI’s program team have collaborated on sustainability planning, community cultivation and various projects where SPN members have had the opportunity to utilize hosted instances of EAASI to access content ranging from design files to literary collections, research software, and beyond.
EAASI Use Cases
A researcher embedded scientific images into a software product their lab distributed many years ago. They now need access to the images, and don’t have the originating source. The software only runs on an older version of Windows. —Cornell
A curator from London is working on an exhibit of Diane Lewis’ work. They sent a researcher to review her drawings, but would also like them to review her digital files to look at unpublished mockups for her books and to review the original CAD drawings for some of her projects. —GSD
A freelance researcher, is interested in old video games, such as Lemmings and would like to conduct a playthrough to see what it was like, and to see how Denis Johnson played it. —UT Austin
EAASI Research Alliance
About Us
The International EAASI Research Alliance, convened by the Software Preservation Network, is an international EaaSI user community of libraries, archives, and museums that utilize the EAASI software to broaden access to digital collections of culture and scholarship.
Together these organizations explore how the EAASI software can be used to provide and preserve access to software-dependent collections for educational and research purposes. The EAASI Research Alliance Subcommittee was convened following the vote and has been actively engaged in planning for the launch of the Alliance ever since.
How We Work
The charge of the Subcommittee is to oversee progress of Yale + SPN/Educopia EAASI Research Alliance organizational collaboration and lead continuous monitoring and assessment. The group meets bi-weekly. The members of the Subcommittee represent key SPN stakeholders, including:
- Eric Kaltman, SPN Coordinating Committee Strategic Coordinator
- Chelle Sanders, SPN Program Manager
- Jessica Meyerson, Educopia Co-director
- Wendy Hagenmaier, Yale’s Head of Software Preservation and Emulation
- Kendra Albert, SPN Law and Policy Advisor
Featured News & Resources
EaaSI Roundtable #1 (2021): “What We Talk About When We Talk About Emulation”
Summary: “What We Talk About When We Talk About Emulation” is a roundtable discussion featuring Eric Kaltman (California State University Channel Islands), Tracy Popp (University of Illinois), and Fernando Rios (University of Arizona) as guest speakers. You can read more …Continue EaaSI Roundtable #1 (2021): “What We Talk About When We Talk About Emulation”
Resources, Webinars
EaaSI Case Study #1: The Would-Be Gentleman
NOTE: EaaSI Case Studies are formatted based on the FCoP Teaching Case Study template developed by Dr. Amelia Acker and published by the Software Preservation Network in June 2020 as part of the IMLS-funded Fostering Communities of Practice project. Name …Continue EaaSI Case Study #1: The Would-Be Gentleman
Reports, Research, Resources
EaaSI Metadata Model and Wikidata
This webinar, entitled “EaaSI Metadata Model and Wikidata,” addresses questions such as: How does your organization create, manage or discover metadata about software and related resources now? What would you like to be able to do with software metadata? Do …Continue EaaSI Metadata Model and Wikidata