SPN Resources

Recordings

2019

Episode 7: International Implications

jmeyerson April 8, 2019
In this seventh and final episode of a series about using the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use, you’ll learn about: Why licensing isn’t a viable solution to copyright…
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2018

Episode 3: Software (Re)Use Cases

jmeyerson May 9, 2018
The “collections as data” initiative centers user communities and use cases in discussions about collection development. This episode highlights research use cases for software collections, and explores whether and how…
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Episode 2: Software Collection Development

jmeyerson May 2, 2018
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…
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Publications

2019

+ “3D/VR Preservation: Drawing on a Common Agenda for Collective Impact” in 3D/VR in the Academic Library: Emerging Practices and Trends, edited by Jennifer Grayburn, Zack Lisher-Katz, Kristina Golubiewski-Davis, and Veronica Ikeshoji. Published by Council on Library and Information Resources. 2019 

2018

+ A Preservationists Guide to the DMCA Exemption for Software Preservation, by Kee Young Lee and Kendra Albert, A Joint Product of the Software Preservation Network and the Cyberlaw Clinic @ the Berkman Klein Center

2017

+ The Software Preservation Network (SPN): A Community Effort to Ensure Long Term Access to Digital Cultural Heritage, D-Lib Magazine, May/June 2017, Volume 23, Number 5/6

+ Software preservationists look ahead to enterprise focus, by Evan Koblentz, TechRepublic, April 17, 2017

2016

+ Software Preservation Network Series, BLOGGERS! The Blog of SAA’s Electronic Record Section

     – Overview

     – Legal and Policy Aspects of Software Preservation

     – Collecting, Processing, and Providing Access to Software

     – Prospects in Software Preservation Partnerships

      – Community Roadmapping for Moving Forward

+ Intellectual Property Rights Issues for Software Emulation: An Interview with Euan Cochrane, Zach Vowell, and Jessica Meyerson, by Erin Engle, The Signal, January 22, 2016

2015

+ Software Preservation Network project grant application to the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ National Leadership Grants for Libraries program

2014

+ Software Preservation Literature Review 

+ “Software Preservation Networks: A Model for Perpetual Access to Proprietary File Formats”, Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Presentations

2019

2018

2017

+ Building a Leadership Network Among NDSR Cohorts Panel Discussion, NDSR Symposium, Washington, D.C.

2016

+ Software Sustainability and Preservation: Implications for Long-term Access to Digital Heritage (p.294), iPRES, Bern, Switzerland

+ Introduction to the Software Preservation Network, Academic Preservation Trust Member Meeting, Washington, D.C.

+ “Software Collecting: An Anecdotal Case Study” Personal Digital Archiving Conference, Indianapolis, IN.

2015

2014

+ Software-as-a-Subject, Lost in the Stacks, Episode 227, October 4, 2014

+ “Software Preservation Network: Impact on the University as an Information Preservation Organization“, Archival Education and Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PN.