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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 Working from Austin, TX [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> | 512-864-4575 <(512)%20864-4575>