Dear Colleagues,

The EaaSI
<https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/emulation-as-a-service-infrastructure/>
team is pleased to kick off our EaaSI Case Study series with  “The Would-Be
Gentleman.”

The EaaSI Case Study series consists of deep dives into emulation
environments, highlighting specific use cases. Every six months a new case
study is published on the Software Preservation Network website and
features the following information about a specific emulation environment:

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   About the group or unit that selected and worked on the emulation case
   study
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   Any emulation challenges the team was expecting
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   The audience for the emulation environment
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   The tool chain used to create the environment
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   The process of creating and testing the emulation case study,
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   Reflections on overcoming emulation roadblocks, and
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   How/where to access the emulation online


*About EaaSI Case Study #1: "The Would-Be Gentleman"*

Created in 1985 by Stanford history professor, Carolyn Lougee, “The
Would-Be Gentleman” <http://bit.ly/eaasi-casestudy-1> is a floppy disk
simulation in which players (students) must manage the economic and social
life of a French bourgeois during the life and reign of Louis XIV of
France. Dr. Lougee created the simulation to supplement her history seminar
entitled “The France of Louis XIV.”

Josh Schneider, Stanford University Archivist, selected “The Would-Be
Gentleman,” as an illustrative example from a University Archives
collection featuring a range of academic software developed by Stanford
faculty members over the years. Stanford Digital Archivist, Annie
Schweikert, worked with EaaSI Software Preservation Analyst, Ethan Gates,
to identify the necessary pieces for testing.

Warm thanks to Stanford University Archives and Stanford Libraries
Born-Digital Preservation Lab (BDPL) for bringing this case study to life!

READ the full case study here: http://bit.ly/eaasi-casestudy-1

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MORE ABOUT EAASI

The EaaSI program
<https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/emulation-as-a-service-infrastructure/>
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. EaaSI aims to scale the technological
framework necessary for multiple institutions to configure, share, and
access software and configured environments. 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.

-- 
*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

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