Participatory Design for Long-term Access: User Research, Software Preservation, and Emulation
EaaSI presentation given at Open Repositories in Hamburg, Germany in June 2019
Presentations, Resources
EaaSI Update April-May 2019
Introducing PortalMedia! In the first week of April, the EaaSI project team convened (in-person and virtually) with its newest member, PortalMedia, to kickoff planning for updates to the EaaSI system’s user experience and interface. PortalMedia comes to us from the great …Continue EaaSI Update April-May 2019
News, Project Updates
Navigating Legacy Software Collections
Eagle-eyed EaaSI-watchers may have noticed the “Student Staff” section on our team page – we’ve been extremely lucky over the course of the program to have employed a number of super talented Yale students, and want to highlight their amazing contributions to …Continue Navigating Legacy Software Collections
News, Staff Updates
EaaSI Wikidata Report: April 2019
This report describes the current state of entity data in the Wikidata knowledge base for the domain of computing between January 2018 and April 2019.
Reports, Resources
Using ShEx to Investigate Data about Software and File Formats in Wikidata
1. What is ShEx? Shape Expressions, commonly known as ShEx, is a constraint language for modeling and validating RDF data. As stated in this paper (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2042/paper40.pdf ), XML Schema is to XML what ShEx is to RDF. A great place to …Continue Using ShEx to Investigate Data about Software and File Formats in Wikidata
News, Staff Updates
EaasI Up to the Test: Users Identify Areas for Improvement
When we released the beta version of the EaaSI software on March 5, our hope was to learn from putting the software in action. Yes, we wanted to identify bugs and errors in the system, but we also wanted to …Continue EaasI Up to the Test: Users Identify Areas for Improvement
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Beta Deployment: EaaSI in AWS or Bust!
Preface The release of the EaaSI beta is an opportunity for the project team to learn about the EaaSI Network functionality in action. As environments are created and shared, we expect to uncover bugs in the software and challenges running …Continue Beta Deployment: EaaSI in AWS or Bust!
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EaaSI Update February-March 2019
EaaSI Beta Release During the months of February and March, the EaaSI Project Team put the finishing touches on the beta release of the EaaSI software. In February, team members conducted internal testing of the system. Tests focused on new …Continue EaaSI Update February-March 2019
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EaaSI Software Development Update
In the past nine months the EaaSI development team worked hard to adapt and improve the EaaS code-base to cope with the challenges and requirements of truly distributed emulation service. Sharing Environments with Network Nodes The main goal of the …Continue EaaSI Software Development Update
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Hickory Dickory Docs: Crafting a Documentation Plan for EaaSI
Originally published: 02-18-2019 | Beta release update: 04-02-2019 As we roll through (and beyond!) the beta release, our documentation is expanding, just as we planned below. Drafting test cases and protocols for the nodes led to a swift expansion of …Continue Hickory Dickory Docs: Crafting a Documentation Plan for EaaSI
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Software Curation: An Ecosystem of Users, Tools, and Services
Panel presentation at PASIG in Mexico City, Mexico in February 2019 featuring perspectives from different niches in the software curation ecosystem including: software sustinability trainer, software preservation and emulation infrastructure providers, a disciplinary liasion, and a legal expert.
Presentations, Resources
Making Things EaaSIer: Overview from EaaSI’s PI
We’re a year in to the program of work funded by the Andrew W. Mellon and Alfred P. Sloan foundations to scale access to emulation and software preservation infrastructure and significant progress has been made. I’m going to use my …Continue Making Things EaaSIer: Overview from EaaSI’s PI
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EaaSI Update November 2018 – January 2019
New EaaSI Website As you may have noticed – EaaSI now has an extensible program subsite within the redesigned SPN website. As an affiliated program of SPN, EaaSI (thanks to support from the Sloan and Mellon Foundations) provided financial support …Continue EaaSI Update November 2018 – January 2019
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EaaSI Wikidata Report: January 2019
This report describes the current state of entity data in the Wikidata knowledge base for the domain of computing between January 2018 and January 2019.
Reports, Resources
Prioritizing Software
This purpose of Prioritizing Software is to expose Node Hosts to National Software Reference Library software categories and their contribution to the EaaSI seed library; to provide an overview of the EaaSI software configuration workflow; and to connect the software …Continue Prioritizing Software
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Prioritizing Features
This purpose of Prioritizing Features is to encourage Node Hosts to articulate and prioritize possible features for each feature category of the EaaSI system including Search/Discovery Resource Import Environment Configuration Metadata/Description User Management User Interface Network Capabilities Data Management Access …Continue Prioritizing Features
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Envisioning Local Services
This purpose of the Envisioning Local Services exercise is to help your organization consider the specifics of the local service environment and create a list of short, medium and long-term goals that will help to bring software preservation and emulation …Continue Envisioning Local Services
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EaaSI Wikidata Report: October 2018
This report describes the current state of entity data in the Wikidata knowledge base for the domain of computing between January 2018 and October 2018.
Reports, Resources
Scaling Software Preservation & Emulation Services
EaaSI presentation at Digital Library Forum in Las Vegas, Nevada in October 2018.
Presentations, Resources
Participatory Design for Software Preservation and Emulation Services
EaaSI presentation given at International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES) in Boston, Massachusetts in September 2018