Greetings Colleagues!

This week, we kicked off our Software Preservation Webinar Series!

The recording from this week’s episode *“Episode 1: Introduction to
Software Preservation”* is now available! You are invited to watch the
recording and explore the supplementary resources provided for this episode
here: http://bit.ly/webinar-episode1

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. *Episode 1* features William Kilbride (DPC), Paul Wheatley
(DPC) and Jessica Meyerson (SPN).

More to come next week after *“Episode 2: Software Collections” *featuring
special guests Patricia Falcao (Tate), Paula Jabloner (Computer History
Museum), and Tim Walsh (Center for Canadian Architecture)! *Episode 2* Research
& Facilitator Lead is Anne-Marie Trépanier (Canadian Center for
Architecture).

*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 <https://www.dpconline.org/> (DPC) and the Software Preservation
Network <http://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org> (SPN). Special
thanks to Sarah Middleton (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).

Due to user limits on our web conferencing software, registration for the
series is now closed. However, all episodes will be recorded and posted to
the DPC and SPN websites.

We plan to build on this series with additional programming, including a
series of in-depth interviews with researchers, developers, archivists,
curators and others on their work in software preservation and curation.
Stay tuned!

On behalf of the SPN and DPC*,*

Jessica Meyerson

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

Working from Austin, TX
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