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SPN Launch: January 2019
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 […]
SPN 2019 Highlights
Post written by: Jessica Meyerson, SPN Community Cultivation Adviser Welcome to 2020! We hope that everyone enjoyed the winter holidays and a peaceful transition to the New Year. As we look ahead to the year ahead, we are thrilled to share a sampling of Software Preservation Network activities, accomplishments, and […]
Software Preservation Networks Joins Amicus Brief Filed with the Supreme Court
Post written by: Brandon Butler, SPN’s Law & Policy Advisor Last week, the Software Preservation Network joined an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court. In this blog post, I’ll say a little bit about the case, Allen v. Cooper, and, since this is the first time SPN has joined […]
Service Provider Survey
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 […]
Saving Data Journalism: Using ReproZip-Web to Capture Dynamic Websites for Future Reuse
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 […]
Member Profile: University of Virginia Library
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 […]
Member Profile: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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 […]
Member Profile: New York University
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 […]
Member Profile: MIT Libraries
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 […]
Member Profile: Duke University Libraries
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 […]