Greetings Colleagues!

The recording from last week’s episode “Episode 7: Software Preservation and Public Accountability - Moving the Needle” is now available! You are invited to watch the recording and explore the supplementary resources provided for this episode and all previous episodes here: http://bit.ly/spwebinars-episode7

Episode 7: Software Preservation and Public Accountability - Moving the Needle explores 1) the role of software preservation and curation in ensuring algorithmic transparency and 2) the complementary roles of community governance and tech alongside formal legal mechanisms for ensuring long-term access to software and software-dependent materials. Special Guests include Burkhard Schafer (University of Edinburgh), Andrew Charlesworth (University of Bristol), and Brandon Butler (University of Virginia).

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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). Acknowledgment and sincere thanks to all of our special guests and registered attendees. Warm appreciation to series colleagues-in-arms Sarah Middleton (DPC), Paul Wheatley (DPC), William Kilbride (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), Morgan McKeehan (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), Devon Olson (University of North Dakota)  and Julia Kim (Library of Congress).

On behalf of the SPN and DPC,

Jessica Meyerson