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Greetings Colleagues!

It is with great enthusiasm and excitement that we announce the six software preservation projects selected to participate in the Fostering Communities of Practice: Software Preservation in Libraries, Archives and Museums (FCoP) cohort. As an affiliated project of the Software Preservation Network, the activities undertaken and documentation produced by cohort members will inform parallel efforts to bring software preservation and access into mainstream digital preservation practice (addressing specific legal, metadata, workflow, infrastructural and training possibilities).

About FCoP

With generous support from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Fostering Communities of Practice: Software Preservation in Libraries, Archives and Museums (FCoP) project aims to broaden participation in software preservation and to empower librarians, archivists, and curators to address the key challenges to providing long-term access to software-dependent cultural heritage.

Stay Informed

To receive FCoP project updates via newsletter (alongside other affiliated project updates and reports about SPN activities more broadly); and to share your software preservation successes/challenges, sign up for the Software Preservation Network mailing list by visiting https://groups.google.com/d/forum/software-preservation-network. If you have questions for the project team, please contact the FCoP Project Coordinator, Jessica Meyerson by emailing jessica[at]educopia[dot]org.

Introducing the FCoP Software Preservation Cohort:

Join us in congratulating and welcoming the members of the FCoP Software Preservation cohort!!! Learn more about the project teams and their projects by clicking on the links below.

University of Virginia

Emulation in the Archives

Mike Durbin, Lauren Work & Jeremy Bartczak

Guggenheim Museum

Developing Metadata for Software-based Art (DMSA)

Jonathan Farbowitz & Joanna Phillips

Georgia Tech

Expanding Access Through Emulation: retroTECH Online

Wendy Hagenmaier, Amanda Pellerin, Bing Wang, Jody Thompson & Susan Wells Parham

University of Arizona

Through Use and Emulation: Increasing Institutional Knowledge of Software Preservation with Computer Game Archiving

Judd Ruggill, Monique Lassere, Ken McAllister & Fernando Rios

Living Computers: Museum + Labs

Emulation in the Middle Ages: Mainframes and Minicomputers

Dorian Bowen, Stephen Jones, Cynde Moya & Josh Dersch

University of Illinois

Preserving Musical Notation and Composition Software

Seth Robbins, Tracy Popp, Kyle Rimkus & Karl Germeck

Stay tuned as the cohort projects ramp up - Don't forget to subscribe to the Software Preservation Network mailing list by visiting https://groups.google.com/d/forum/software-preservation-network.

Best Regards,

Jessica Meyerson (FCoP Project Coordinator, Educopia Institute)

Zach Vowell (FCoP Principle Investigator, CalPoly State University)

Fostering Communities of Practice (FCoP): Software Preservation in Libraries, Archives and Museums Made possible by the Institute for Museum and Library Services #RE-95-17-0058-17 Affiliated project of the Software Preservation Network (SPN)

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