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 series is jointly hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition and the Software Preservation Network.
EPISODE 1: Software Preservation Overview
This episode 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.
Sharing experiences and perspectives is critical to understanding the hurdles in software preservation, to imagining future use of software-dependent data, and to forming a mutual understanding of where collective action is necessary to facilitate those future uses so we hope you can join the discussion.
Speakers:
- Jessica Meyerson, Software Preservation Network
- Paul Wheatley, Digital Preservation Coalition
- Introduced and moderated by William Kilbride, Digital Preservation Coalition
Watch the recording
(Runtime 48mins)
Read the Chat from the webinar: Episode 1
Supplementary Resources
Websites & Blogs
bwFLA – Emulation as a service website http://eaas.uni-freiburg.de/
CAMiLEON Project Website, https://web.archive.org/web/20060801000000*/http:/www.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/
JISC Funded Workshops on Software Preservation: Raising awareness of preservation issues within software development https://softwarepreservation.jiscinvolve.org/wp/
Mapstalgia Blog, Josh Millard http://mapstalgia.tumblr.com/
Variable Media Initiative, Guggenheim website https://www.guggenheim.org/conservation/the-variable-media-initiative
Software Heritage website https://www.softwareheritage.org/
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
Articles & Reports
Cochrane, E. Rendering Matters. Archives New Zealand.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130218111126/http:/archives.govt.nz/rendering-matters-report-results-research-digital-object-rendering
Newman,J.(2011). (Not) Playing Games: Player-Produced Walkthroughs as Archival Documents of Digital Gameplay. International Journal of Digital Curation. 2011; Issue 2, Volume 6. https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v6i2.206
Swade,D.(1993). The Problems of Software Conservation. (Computer RESURRECTION, The Bulletin of the Computer Conservation Society [Autumn 1993].1993;Issue 7) http://www.computerconservationsociety.org/resurrection/res07.htm#f
Software Heritage – Why and How to Preserve Source Code https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01590958/document
SPN Curation Readiness Working Group Reports
- Report 1: Exploring Curation-ready Software Use Cases
- Report 2: Improving Curation-readiness https://osf.io/crfyv/
“The Emularity” blog post, Jason Scott, Internet Archive, Textfiles.com http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4546
2017 Report on the First IEEE Workshop on the Future of Research Curation and Research Reproducibility
https://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/ieee_workshops/ieee_reproducibility_workshop_report_final.pdf
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 ⅚ http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may17/meyerson/05meyerson.html