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Dear Colleagues
The recordings from Episodes 1 & 2 of our Software Preservation Webinar Series are now available! You are invited to watch the recording and explore the supplementary resources provided for
these episodes here:
Episode 1 provides an overview of software preservation including past and current programmatic and project-based efforts to address key facets of software preservation such as metadata & standards, law & policy, technological infrastructure,
research and training & education. Presenters provide additional detail about the subsequent episodes in the series, and solicit questions/topics from attendees that will inform open discussion with guests. Episode 1 features Jessica Meyerson (Software Preservation
Network), Paul Wheatley (Digital Preservation Coalition) and is introduced and moderated by William Kilbride (Digital Preservation Coalition).
Episode 2 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 collection profiles and the set of features that characterize each of them. Through round-table discussion, guests explore how collection development policies and strategies for existing collections impact community goals of sharing
and reuse. Episode 2 features Patricia Falcao (Tate), Paula Jabloner (Computer History Museum) and Time Walsh (Canadian Center for Architecture).
More to come next week after
“Episode 3: Software (Re) Use Cases” featuring special guests Eric Kaltman (Carnegie Mellon University) and Matthew Allen (University of Toronto, Harvard Graduate School of Design)!
Episode 3 Research & Facilitation Lead is Andrea Altenbach (Studio Gang).
About the Series
The Software Preservation Webinar Series provides a survey of software preservation contexts. Each episode explores a different software preservation context by providing an overview, discussion
with guest speakers (specialists in digital preservation, software studies, scholarly communication, open source software and more) and open discussion with attendees. The webinar is jointly hosted by the
Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the
Software Preservation Network (SPN). Special thanks to Sarah Middleton (DPC) and all the members of SPN Training & Education Working
Group: Anne-Marie Trépanier (Canadian Centre for Architecture), Sherry Lake (University of Virginia), Andi Altenbach (Studio Gang), Neil Chue Hong (Software Sustainability Institute), Elizabeth Parke (McGill University),
Daina Bouquin (Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics).
Due to user limits on our web conferencing software, registration for the series is now closed. However, all episodes will be recorded and posted to the DPC and SPN websites.
We plan to build on this series with additional programming, including a series of in-depth interviews with researchers, developers, archivists, curators and others on their work in software
preservation and curation. Stay tuned!
*Apologies for cross-posting*
On behalf of the SPN and DPC
Sarah Middleton
Head of Communications and Advocacy
Digital Preservation Coalition
37 Tanner Row, York, YO1 6WP
Tel: 01904 601952
Twitter: @Sarah_DPC
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