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Dear Colleagues, The Digital Preservation Coalition and the Software Preservation Network would like to invite you all to register for the upcoming Software Preservation Webinar Series! Jointly hosted, the series will examine several software preservation contexts including collection development, reuse cases, scholarly communication, scaling programs within and across organizations, and software preservation legal challenges. *REGISTER AND LEARN MORE: **http://bit.ly/spn-events <http://bit.ly/spn-events>* Starting on 25th April and running for 6 weeks, each webinar lasts 45 minutes and uses the Zoom web conferencing platform. While each episode varies, the general structure includes: - 5-10min: Overview and introduction by the Research/Content Lead - 2min: Introduce guests - 20-25min: Discussion between guests based on set of discussion questions - 15min: Q&A with attendees All webinar episodes will be recorded and made available online after each event. *Series Overview:* *EPISODE 1: Software Preservation Overview* April 25 // 8am PST - 10am CST - 4pm BST/CET *EPISODE 2: Software Collection Development* May 2 // 8am PST - 10am CST - 4pm BST/CET *EPISODE 3: Software (Re)Use Cases* May 9 // 8am PST - 10am CST - 4pm BST/CET *EPISODE 4: Software in Digital/Scholarly Communications* May 16 // 8am PST - 10am CST - 4pm BST/CET *EPISODE 5: Scaling Software Preservation and Emulation* May 23 // 8am PST - 10am CST - 4pm BST/CET *EPISODE 6: Software Preservation and Legal Challenges* May 30 // 8am PST - 10am CST - 4pm BST/CET Sharing your experience and perspective is critical to understanding the hurdles in software preservation, to imagining future use of software-dependent data, and to forming a mutual understanding of where collective action is necessary to facilitate those future uses so we earnestly hope you will join the discussion. The webinar series is free to attend and open to all. Registration will close the Friday before the scheduled episode. Thank you for your time and consideration. We look forward to talking to you soon. **Apologies for cross-posting** On behalf of the SPN and DPC*,* Jessica Meyerson -- *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 ######################################################################## to manage your DLF-ANNOUNCE subscription, visit diglib.org/announce