From: NISO Announce <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 09:49:42 -0400

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/


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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 has been proposed. Despite, however,
meetings such as the Library of Congress’ “Preserving.exe: Toward a
National Strategy for Preserving Software,” 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. 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
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