Greetings Colleagues!

Are you currently facing access roadblocks to data in your collections due
to legacy software dependencies? Are you currently using, testing or
curious about emulation as an access strategy? Does your organization
collect software (passively or actively) for rendering your existing
digital data? Have you thought about how to link existing software
collections together?

We are excited to announce the kick-off of the Scaling Emulation and
Software Preservation (EaaSY)
<http://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/eaasy/> project! Awarded to
Yale University by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation, EaaSY brings together a team of digital preservation
practitioners, semantic architects, computer scientists and software
developers to develop a community-driven, scalable emulation infrastructure.

To receive EaaSY project updates via newsletter and 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 us at eaasy[at]yale[dot]edu

The EaaSY project 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. EaaSY 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 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.

*Project Team:*
Seth Anderson, Program Manager, Yale University
Euan Cochrane, Principal Investigator, Yale University
Jessica Meyerson, Outreach and Communications Lead, Educopia Institute
Klaus Rechert, Architecture and Development Lead, Open SLX
Katherine Thornton, Semantic Architect, Yale University

Stay tuned!

Best,
Jessica (on behalf of the EaaSY Project Team)

-- 
*Jessica Meyerson*
Research Program Officer
Educopia Institute
http://educopia.org

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