{"id":6908,"date":"2018-08-20T18:47:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T18:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6908"},"modified":"2018-08-20T18:47:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T18:47:33","slug":"eaasi-the-software-preservation-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6908","title":{"rendered":"EaaSI | The Software Preservation Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org\/eaasi\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/450x785.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just learned about a new project called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org\/eaasi\/\">EaaSI | The Software Preservation Network<\/a>. Stanford will be one of the nodes. They are looking at how to provide emulation as a service. They are using technology from Freiburg called <a href=\"http:\/\/eaas.uni-freiburg.de\/\">bwFLA Emulation as Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Emulation as a strategy for digital preservation is about to become an accepted technology for memory institutions as a method for coping a large variety of complex digital objects. Hence, the demand for ready-made and especially easy-to-use emulation services will grow. In order to provide user-friendly emulation services a scalable, distributed system model is required to be run on heterogeneous Grid or Cluster infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The Emulation-as-a-Service architecture simplifies access to preserved digital assets allowing end users to interact with the original environments running on different emulators. Ready-made emulation components provide a flexible web service API allowing for development of individual and tailored digital preservation workflows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Emulation is going to be important to game preservation. Already the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.archive.org\/category\/emulation\/\">Internet Archive is making games and other software available with emulation<\/a>. There is also the <a href=\"http:\/\/mamedev.org\/\">MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) project<\/a> that is a community project that has traditionally allowed people to play older games right from the bit sequence off cartridges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned about a new project called EaaSI | The Software Preservation Network. Stanford will be one of the nodes. They are looking at how to provide emulation as a service. They are using technology from Freiburg called bwFLA Emulation as Service. Emulation as a strategy for digital preservation is about to become an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6908\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EaaSI | The Software Preservation Network<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,78,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-playful-or-cool","category-preservation","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6911,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions\/6911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}