[SigLT-L] May 13 NISO Webinar: Software Preservation and Use: I Saved the Files But Can I Run Them?

[NISO Announce]

*NISO Webinar: Software Preservation and Use: I Saved the Files But Can I
Run Them?*

*Date: *May 13, 2015

*Time: *1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern time

*Event webpage:* *http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/software/*
<http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/software/>

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*ABOUT THE WEBINAR*

The digitization of resources can provide expanded access to information as
well as a preservation mechanism for now-fragile materials. Preserving the
digital copy of the resource is an issue now being addressed, but what
about the software used to create digital files? How can software on media
which can no longer be read -- or no longer be read easily -- be preserved?
If that software can’t be accessed, what happens to the material created
by, and only read by, that software?

Progress has been made in formulating standards for the preservation and
description of digital materials and a framework for addressing digital
item preservation <http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/129095> has been
proposed. Despite, however, meetings such as the Library of Congress’
“Preserving.exe:
Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Software
<http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/preservingsoftware2013.html>,”
no formal standard or framework yet exists for software digitization and
preservation. This webinar will feature three presenters who will speak on
aspects of software digitization and preservation, including a how-to
approach (technical aspects), a metadata component, and observations from
the field as part of the continuing discussion on the state of the
field and the need for standardization.
Topics and speakers are:

• *Software artifacts: Migration and Emulation* – *Michael Lesk*, Professor
of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University

• *Emulation in practice: Emulation as a Service at Yale University
Library: Lessons learnt and plans for the future *– *Euan Cochrane*,
Digital Preservation Manager, Yale University Library


*REGISTRATION*

*Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm
Eastern on May 13*. Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members and
students.

NISO Library Standards Alliance (LSA) members receive one free connection
as part of membership and do not need to register. (The LSA member webinar
contact will automatically receive the login information. Members are
listed here: www.niso.org/about/roster/#library_standards_alliance
<http://www.niso.org/about/roster/%23library_standards_alliance>. If you
would like to become an LSA member and receive the entire year’s webinars
as part of membership, information on joining is listed here:
www.niso.org/about/join/alliance/.)

All webinar registrants and LSA webinar contacts receive access to the
recorded version for one year. Visit the event webpage to register and for
more information: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/webinars/software/
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Juliana Wood, Educational Programs Manager
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302
Baltimore, Maryland 21211
E: jwood at niso.org
P: 301.654.2512
F: 410.685.5278
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