The Software Preservation Network (SPN) project, funded by the IMLS, is building community infrastructure to support software preservation at scale as part of the larger effort to ensure long-term access to digital objects. The project is soliciting community input in the form of use cases (
http://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/use-cases/), proposals to the project’s software preservation forum (
http://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/spn-forum/), and conference calls. In addition, the project is conducting a qualitative study of the need for software preservation among cultural heritage organizations and coordinating legal research on the use of legacy software by cultural heritage organizations. This workshop will engage attendees in active/hands-on critique of 3 possible pathways to implementation for SPN. We will start by providing context on the project includingL a progress report on the study, the plans for the forum, and project deliverables.
