Seth Anderson
Seth began his relationship with digital preservation while studying Moving Image Archiving and Preservation at NYU. Prior to joining the team at YUL, Seth worked as a consultant with AVPreserve, on digital preservation projects for the Smithsonian Institution, United States …Continue Seth Anderson
Bios
Exploring our Emulation Environment
The purpose of the “Exploring our Emulation Environment” exercise is to unpack and reflect on the range of curatorial decisionmaking required to configure an emulation environment. Participants are asked to consider metadata and technical challenges, as well as, use cases …Continue Exploring our Emulation Environment
Resources, Templates
Multithreading Software Preservation: A Software Preservation and Emulation Workshop
The EaaSI (Yale University) and Fostering a Community of Practice (Cal Poly) projects, both affiliated efforts of the Software Preservation Network (SPN), invites your participation for a full-day workshop in August 2019, in conjunction with the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, to explore software …Continue Multithreading Software Preservation: A Software Preservation and Emulation Workshop
Event Reports, News
Emulation: Enthusiasts and Skeptics Learning Side-by-Side (Node Reflections: Notre Dame)
Notre Dame started with the EaaSI project a little more than a year ago.We hoped that engaging in the pilot phase implementation cohort would help focus our institutional efforts at software preservation. Some of us on the team began the …Continue Emulation: Enthusiasts and Skeptics Learning Side-by-Side (Node Reflections: Notre Dame)
Cohort Reflections, News
EaaSI Update December 2019 – January 2020
Dotting the I’s and Crossing the T’s The beta release of the updated EaaSI UI is due for release in the coming month. As we approach this deadline, the teams at OpenSLX and PortalMedia are busy putting the final touches …Continue EaaSI Update December 2019 – January 2020
News, Project Updates
Investigating Emulation as a Service for Reproducible Research at Yale
Presentation given at the 2020 Librarians Building Momentum for Reproducible Research virtual conference.
Presentations, Resources
Emulating the International Monetary Fund Government Finance Statistics CD-ROMs (Node Reflections: Stanford)
Stanford University Libraries is thrilled to be participating in the Emulation-as-a-Service Infrastructure project (EaaSI). This is an effort to build a distributed network for sharing and preserving software led by Yale University Libraries with the generous support of the Andrew …Continue Emulating the International Monetary Fund Government Finance Statistics CD-ROMs (Node Reflections: Stanford)
News, Staff Updates
EaaSI Wikidata Report: January 2020
This report describes the current state of entity data in the Wikidata knowledge base for the domain of computing between January 2018 and January 2020.
Reports, Resources
Jessica Meyerson
As SPN Community Cultivation Advisor, Jessica Meyerson manages staff – ensuring that our work adheres to core principles of transparency, responsiveness, and engagement; oversees shared measurement across SPN Affiliated Projects, Working Groups and other initiatives to enable data-driven decision making …Continue Jessica Meyerson
Bios, Staff
EaaSI Update October-November 2019
The Future of EaaSI October 3, 2020 marked the first time every member of the EaaSI team was gathered in the same place. Team members came to New Haven came from Germany, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin to present the achievements …Continue EaaSI Update October-November 2019
News, Project Updates
Soup to Nuts: Simulating Software
The purpose of the Soup to Nuts exercise is to revisit your Software & Collection Inventory and Scenarios for Use & Access to determine if those software cases/examples are still the cases/examples that you want to configure and test in …Continue Soup to Nuts: Simulating Software
Resources, Templates
EaaSI Wikidata Report: October 2019
This report describes the current state of entity data in the Wikidata knowledge base for the domain of computing between January 2018 and October 2019.
Reports, Resources
An Introduction to Emulation
Presentation at the NYU Institute for Fine Arts’ workshop “Digital Preservation: Caring for Digital Art Objects.”
Presentations, Resources
Software Curation: Intersection of Policy and Practice
Panel presentation at Maintainers III in Washington, D.C. in October 2019 featuring perspectives on the materials that have to be maintained around the software in order to make the software meaningful including: research data curation librarian, service provider, legal expert, …Continue Software Curation: Intersection of Policy and Practice
Presentations, Resources
EaaSI Update August – September 2019
Spreading the Word Multithreading Software Preservation and Emulation August began with the day-long Multithreading Software Preservation and Emulation workshop at the Austin Public Library during the 2019 SAA Conference. The event included introductions to the Fostering Communities of Practice cohort …Continue EaaSI Update August – September 2019
News, Project Updates
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
News, Staff Updates
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
News, Project Updates
Why EaaSI? System Overview
Summary: This webinar, entitled “Why EaaSI? System Overview,” addresses questions such as: What problem is EaaSI trying to solve? What are EaaSI core functions and underlying design concepts? Why are approaching it this way? How is EaaSI different from EaaS? …Continue Why EaaSI? System Overview
Resources, Webinars
Legal and Institutional Policy Frameworks
Summary: This webinar, entitled “Legal and Institutional Policy Frameworks,” addresses questions such as: When you don’t collect software as an object, why do you do it? What role(s) does/do software play in your organizations and their long-term collection and preservation …Continue Legal and Institutional Policy Frameworks
Resources, Webinars
EaaSI Wikidata Report: July 2019
This report describes the current state of entity data in the Wikidata knowledge base for the domain of computing between January 2018 and July 2019.