Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to release the recording of the EaaSI January 2021
roundtable entitled *"What We Talk About When We Talk About Emulation."
<https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/eaasi-roundtable-1/>* The
first in a series, this roundtable features Eric Kaltman (California State
University Channel Islands), Tracy Popp (University of Illinois), and
Fernando Rios (University of Arizona).

👉 Access the recording as well as supplementary links here:
http://bit.ly/eaasi-roundtable-1

This roundtable discussion series is intended to feature EaaSI
participants, staff, and other special guests in order to engage the
information management and curation communities on topics related to
“emulation in action” - the use cases or actual points and moments of
interaction between researchers, practitioners, and emulation technology in
cultural/data repositories.

*"What We Talk About When We Talk About Emulation"
<https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/eaasi-roundtable-1/> discussion
questions include:  *

   - How did *you* learn about software preservation and emulation concepts
   and terms?
   - What has been your process for introducing or advocating for software
   preservation and emulation at your organization? How have/are you
   socializing these concepts - teaching, research, exhibits, policies,
   workflows?
   - What types of questions are researchers, students, and faculty
   interested in v. questions from colleagues in collection development and
   digital curation?
   - What are one or two key concepts about emulation that you would like
   everyone to understand, regardless of the type of use case they may be
   interested in?
   - Following on from Dr. 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?
   - In the context of archival operations - how do you talk with
   archivists about determining when the *significant properties* of a
   born-digital collection will demand the overhead of emulation?

Thank you all! Wishing everyone an inspired week!

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MORE ABOUT EAASI

The EaaSI program of work
<https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/emulation-as-a-service-infrastructure/>
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.


-- 
*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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