Dear colleagues,
The EaaSI <http://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/eaasi/> team is
thrilled to introduce our Roundtable series!
The Roundtable series will consist of in-depth conversations about issues
in emulation, highlighting specific use cases from the software
preservation community. Each roundtable is a *one-hour long virtual event
that is free and open to all.*
We’re kicking off this series with “What We Talk About When We Talk About
Emulation” on January 29 @ 9am Pacific Standard Time and featuring the
following roundtable speakers:
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Tracy Popp - University of Illinois
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Eric Kaltman - California State University, Channel Islands
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Fernando Rios - University of Arizona
Register here: https://bit.ly/eaasi-roundtable-jan2021
Co-facilitators Ethan Gates and Jessica Meyerson will cover the following
questions with our speakers:
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What has been your process for introducing or advocating for software
preservation and emulation at your organization?
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How are people learning software preservation and emulation concepts and
terms?
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How have/are you socializing these concepts - teaching, research,
exhibits, policies, workflows?
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What types of questions are researchers, students, and faculty
interested in v. questions from colleagues in collection development and
digital curation?
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What are one or two key concepts that you would like everyone to
understand, regardless of the type of use case they may be interested in?
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Following on from Dr. Amelia Acker's research on the FCoP project
<https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Emulation-Encounters_Acker_RESEARCH.pdf>
- What/How do you think about the differences between serving up an
emulated experience, and serving up data and existing collection materials
-- from the perspective of the library?
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If you have questions for the project team, please contact the EaaSI
Community Outreach Lead, Jessica Meyerson, at <jessica[at]educopia[dot]org>.
MORE ABOUT EAASI
The EaaSI program builds on previous work to apply the Emulation-as-a-Service
(EaaS) <http://eaas.uni-freiburg.de/> framework for access and use of
preserved software and digital objects. The project is focused on scaling
the technological framework necessary for multiple institutions to
configure, share, and access software and configured environments. EaaSI is
focused on a distributed, community-driven architecture that sits on top of
existing digital preservation infrastructure. This directly complements
existing efforts by the Software Preservation Network
<https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/> and others to address key
aspects of software preservation including legal advocacy, research about
local software preservation needs, institutional capacity building for
software preservation, collection development, professional development and
training, and workflow recommendations.
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*Jessica Meyerson*
Director for Research & Strategy | Educopia Institute <http://educopia.org/>
The Maintainers <https://themaintainers.org/>, co-director
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Fellow
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Working from Austin, TX
jessica[at]educopia[dot]org | 512-864-4575
https://calendly.com/jmeyerson
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