*Greetings Colleagues!Apologies for the delay! The recording from this
week’s episode “Episode 3: Software (Re)Use Cases” is now available! You
are invited to watch the recording and explore the supplementary resources
provided for this episode here: http://bit.ly/webinar-episode2
<http://bit.ly/webinar-episode2> The “collections as data” initiative
centers user communities and use cases in discussions about collection
development. This episode highlights research use cases for software
collections, unique qualities of software as a research object and explores
whether and how the “collections as data” approach is a useful response to
the unique challenges of collecting, preserving and providing access to
software. Episode 3 features Matthew Allen (University of Toronto, Harvard
Graduate School of Design) and Eric Kaltman (Carnegie Mellon University).
Episode 3 Research & Facilitation Lead is Andrea Altenbach (Studio Gang).
More to come after this week's episode “Episode 4: Software in Scholarly
Communications” featuring Special Guests: Veronica Ikeshoji-Orlati
(Vanderbilt University), Neil Chue Hong (Software Sustainability Institute)
and James Howison (University of Texas at Austin) with Research &
Facilitation Lead Elizabeth Parke (McGill University).About the SeriesThe
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*

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

Working from Austin, TX
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