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Learn about SPN affiliated project activities and milestones. SPN affiliated projects focus on specific aspects of software preservation/curation that support the strategic goals of SPN.
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Timeline: January 2018 – June 2020
Funder(s): Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Awardee: Yale University
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With the coming of the new year, the EaaSI program entered the home stretch of its initial grant-funded period. Our work over the last two months focused on preparations for this final leg of the journey and looked ahead to the next phase of the program. There's plenty in store over the next few months and we can't wait to share it with you including testing of EaaSI V.1.0.0., Node Host Symposia, Node Host Reflections Blog Series, and the results of our latest community software prioritization efforts.
Read the complete update here!
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Timeline: June 2017 – May 2020
Funder(s): Institute for Museum and Library Services #RE-95-17-0058-17
Awardee: CalPoly State University
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Outside of winter holidays, December and January were spent shifting focus away from active project activities towards a combination of reflection, synthesis, and refining resulting documentation. This synthesis work led us to wonder: how has our team evolved since the project began, both on the individual and the organizational level? In this update, we reflect on that question, plus Dr. Amelia Acker shares her interim report and protocols.
Friendly reminder: you can find members of the FCoP cohort at the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) in February and Code4Lib in March.
Read the complete update here!
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Timeline: January 2017 - June 2020
Funder(s): Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Awardee: Association of Research Libraries
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Wrapping Up the Code of Best Practices Grant
December 31, 2019 marked the end of the grant period for the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation, which was generously supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The grant was awarded to the Association of Research Libraries and funded the work of your humble narrator (Brandon Butler) along with Krista Cox at the Association of Research Libraries and the originators of the Fair Use Best Practices methodology, Peter Jasazi and Patricia Aufderheide.
One thing is for sure: the Code could never have happened without SPN. The passionate SPN team (especially the indomitable Jessica Meyerson) helped us get oriented and find all the right people to talk to, all the right things to read, and all the right meetings to attend. Then the wonderful folks we met through SPN spent hours talking with us on the telephone, meeting with us in small groups, and answering our nudge-y emails. So, on behalf of the Code team, I want to personally thank the SPN community for welcoming us into your conversations and sharing your wisdom, your anxieties, your passion, and your deep knowledge with us.
If you haven't yet had a chance, it is worth perusing the revamped Software Code homepage on the SPN website. One of the last pieces of work funded by the grant was consolidating the diverse resources that the Code Team created (with big help, again, from SPN) into one convenient package that anyone can easily grok. Check out the short video we commissioned, summarizing the what, how, and why of the Code, as well as the Deep Dive into the legal foundations for fair use best practices, and the video recordings (with captions and transcriptions!) from all seven of the webinars in our series on legal issues in software preservation. You can also check out the scholarly article the Team published in the Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, giving more of the background as well as the legal thinking that went into the Code. Finally, Pat Aufderheide recently wrote up the results of the survey we conducted late last year, looking into the impacts (so far) of the Code in the practitioner community.
And last but not least, take at look at the Oracle V. Google brief as it was filed with the Supreme Court. I was proud to be counsel of record on the brief, and grateful to Dave Hansen at Duke for his excellent drafting work on the brief. Jack Bernard at the University of Michigan and Jonathan Band, counsel to the Library Copyright Alliance, gave us valuable feedback. We were in good company—more than 25 different amicus briefs were filed in support of Google in the case, including briefs from Microsoft, 83 computer scientists, and 72 intellectual property scholars.
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The Software Preservation Network (SPN) facilitates and supports software preservation efforts. SPN preserves software through community engagement, infrastructure support, and knowledge generation in five core activity areas including Law & Policy Advocacy, Metadata & Standards Development, Training & Education, Research-in-Practice, and Technological Infrastructure.
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Do you appreciate the work that SPN has been doing over the last several years to broaden participation and ensure lawful preservation, sharing, and reuse of software? Would you like to SPN to continue its work of coordination, research, advocacy, and capacity building? Do you have ideas or a vision for the future of software preservation that you would like to see realized through the SPN community?
If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, then consider supporting our work through membership or sponsorship. To learn more about the benefits of membership and sponsorship, visit: https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/get-involved/
To join, download, complete and submit your SPN Participation Agreement to <jess.farrell@educopia.org>.
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Twitter: @softpresnetwork
Web: www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org
Email: contact@softwarepreservationnetwork.org
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