Abstract & Overview
This episode is first in a series of six webinars on Software Preservation The Software Preservation Webinar Series provides a survey of software preservation contexts. Each episode explores a different software preservation context by providing an overview, discussion with guest speakers (specialists in digital preservation, software studies, scholarly communication, open source software and more) and open discussion with attendees. The webinar series is jointly hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Software Preservation Network (SPN). Episode 1 provides an overview of software preservation including past and current programmatic and project-based efforts to address key facets of software preservation such as metadata & standards, law & policy, technological infrastructure, research and training & education. Presenters provide additional detail about the subsequent episodes in the series, and solicit questions/topics from attendees that will inform open discussion with guests. Featured speakers include: William Kilbride (DPC), Paul Wheatley (DPC) and Jessica Meyerson (SPN). Sarah Middleton (DPC) concludes the episode. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNFCf2QTn6o Uploader: Software Preservation Network