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Dedicated Backbone Support Thanks to the investment of SPN members, we now have dedicated staff to scale up and support SPN’s organizational infrastructure. This is a significant win for all those involved in SPN past and future activities – filling a critical gap in terms of communications, coordination, alignment and bring […]

The Software Preservation Network (SPN) Research Working Group invites you to participate in a survey on practices, needs, and gaps related to software preservation. Why Does This Matter? For decades, researchers and practitioners in information science, digital preservation, and allied fields have discussed the necessity of software preservation: preserving software […]

Post written by: Katherine Boss and Vicky Steeves 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, and without […]

A regular series on the SPN blog, member profiles highlight the full spectrum of software preservation work underway at member institutions. Post written by: Chip German and Sherry Lake Tell us about the software preservation program at your organization. Sherry: “UVA is increasingly committed to software preservation from an archival […]

A regular series on the SPN blog, member profiles highlight the full spectrum of software preservation work underway at member institutions. Post written by: Tracy Popp 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 […]

A regular series on the SPN blog, member profiles highlight the full spectrum of software preservation work underway at member institutions. Post written by: Vicky Steeves 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 […]

A regular series on the SPN blog, member profiles highlight the full spectrum of software preservation work underway at member institutions. Post written by: Joe Carrano Tell us about the software preservation program at your organization. Software preservation is a continuing need at MIT. MIT Libraries preserves the scholarly research […]

A regular series on the SPN blog, member profiles highlight the full spectrum of software preservation work underway at member institutions. Post written by: Sophia Lafferty-Hess Tell us about the software preservation program at your organization. Currently at Duke University, we preserve a variety of digital objects within our repository […]

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 lawyer! I’ll be writing here about general topics in the […]

About Dr. Acker Amelia Acker (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles) is an assistant professor in the iSchool at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests focus on the emergence, standardization, and preservation of new forms of data created with mobile information and communication technologies. Currently, she is […]