EaaSI September Resource Highlight: "Exploring our Emulation Environment"
Jessica Meyerson
Dear Colleagues,
We hope that this message finds you healthy, safe, and finding ways each week (big and small) to be kind to yourself.
The EaaSI team is excited to kickoff our Resource Highlight series!
Resource Highlights are monthly opportunities for the EaaSI team to share our work more broadly. Resources range from staff blog posts that connect software curation and emulation to current events to capacity building templates that provide structured activities for digital curation practitioners to reports from our EaaSI partner organizations on their own emulation explorations.
Our Resource Highlight for September is an activity called “Exploring our Emulation Environment.”
Just like a behavioral biologist venturing into a nearby forest to explore, observe, and describe the family structures of squirrel families > or just like humanists use close and distant forms of reading to unearth insights that enable new interpretations of a text….this exercise asks practitioners to put on their observational goggles and give close examination to the creator and curatorial decisions inscribed at each layer of our emulation environment.
The “Exploring our Emulation Environment” capacity building template includes a clear set of objectives, a list of any requirements of supplies, instructions on how to organize the activity (for a larger or smaller group), and the actual worksheet where group discussion about the environment(s) can be documented.
View and Download the capacity building template here: http://bit.ly/eaasi-explore-environment
2021 Hosted Emulation Service Pilot:
If you are interested in participating in a pilot for EaaSI Hosted Emulation Services, join SPN for 2021! EaaSI is partnering with the Software Preservation Network to provide an exclusive, one year testing pilot of the EaaSI beta hosted service for participants in SPN member organizations. During this pilot, SPN would act as the first point of contact for EaaSI Hosted Service for its members, standardizing and overseeing member onboarding to the Network and synthesizing feedback/data from members in order to inform the EaaSI development roadmap and service design. Learn more about SPN member benefits and download a Membership Agreement on our the Get Involved section of our website.
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If you have questions for the project team, please contact the EaaSI Community Cultivation Lead, Jessica Meyerson, at <jessica[at]educopia[dot]org>.
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EaaSI provides a standards-compliant, interoperable solution for accessing and reusing software over time. EaaSI addresses issues of software collection development by enabling multiple institutions to configure, share, and access software and configured environments within the same network. This directly complements existing efforts by the Software Preservation Network and others to address key aspects of software preservation including legal advocacy, research about local software preservation needs, institutional capacity building for software preservation, collection development, professional development and training, and workflow recommendations.