Update Not Required Symposium: Preserving, Emulating, and Reproducing Software

Sponsored by UC San Diego Library and Research IT Services

With an abundance of caution and the proactive response by campus to the COVID-19 situation, we are canceling this event and will plan to reschedule in the Fall. Look for updates and new advertisements for a Fall Symposium.

Preserving, Emulating, and Reproducing Software

Every day we all make choices about our individual digital legacies through what we create, keep, and share. Software mediates all of those activities. This symposium is an opportunity to discuss our dependence on software and software as a work and research output of the university in its own right. It is intended to locate possible overlaps, intersections, and partnerships that could help us think about software preservation as a university-wide priority. Software preservation and emulation is critical for historical investigations and research data reproducibility. If these are areas of interest for you, please join us! Lunch will be provided.

This theme and venue of the symposium were chosen to inspire a mix of facilitated discussion and hands-on engagement with software preservation and emulation.

Join us for the Software Emulation and Preservation Symposium and help shape the digital legacy of UC San Diego!

 

Questions?

Email us at: eaasisymposium@ucsd.edu

The EaaSI program of work is an effort to lower the barriers for cultural memory organizations and their patrons to reuse older software for research, teaching, and exhibit. EaaSI is the “swiss army knife” of software reuse platforms, built to support a wide range of organizational (ie, appraisal) and individual (ie, reproducibility) use cases. EaaSI focuses on four key development areas: distributed management, discovery, sharing, and access. EaaSI is an affiliated project of the Software Preservation Network.

The Software Preservation Network (SPN) is a distributed, member-driven effort among cultural memory organizations to ensure long term access to software. SPN believes that software should be preserved because it is both a dependency for accessing existing digital data and because it has unique cultural value due to its mediating role in our lives. SPN pursues it’s vision of “Saving Software, Together” through its law and policy agenda, working groups, affiliated projects, and the coordinating activities of its staff.