Dear Colleagues,
This is an invitation to participate in a study entitled “Software
Preservation for Cultural Heritage.” Our research is part of an IMLS-funded
project to establish a Software Preservation Network
<https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/proposal_narritive_lg-73-15-0133_cal_poly_corporation.pdf>.
With this study, we want to better understand cultural heritage
practices/experiences surrounding long-term preservation and access to
digital primary resources stored in proprietary file formats. While the
cultural heritage community has developed tools and workflows for bitstream
preservation, the community lacks empirical data regarding the experiences
and efforts of cultural heritage repositories to access material stored in
proprietary file formats during appraisal, accessioning, description, and
reference activities.
As part of this survey, you will also be invited to opt-in for a follow-up
semi-structured interview regarding proprietary software challenges.
Anonymized data from the study will be made available to the profession and
software rights holders, along with analysis of current trends and
possibilities for future research.
Take the survey (roughly 20 minutes):
https://utexas.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eJr7lm1aCaC4McJ
Questions? Contact:
Jessica Meyerson, <[log in to unmask]>, Digital Archivist,
Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
Zach Vowell, <[log in to unmask]>, Digital Archivist, Robert E. Kennedy
Library, California Polytechnic State University
Carlos Ovalle, <[log in to unmask]>, PhD Candidate, School of
Information, University of Texas at Austin
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