SOFTWARE PRESERVATION NETWORK

The Software Preservation Network (SPN) is a leading organization established to advance software preservation through collective action. SPN preserves software through its Affiliated Projects, Strategic Partnerships and member engagement across five core activity areas... SPN was formed in 2016 during the Software Preservation Network Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Our growing network includes colleagues from university libraries, museums, research data archives, public libraries, design firms, and the open source software community. Individual participants range in role and perspective, including legal scholar-practitioners, digital preservation specialists, metadata specialists, data curators, digital conservators, knowledge managers, archivists, software developers and data journalists... SPN believes that software should be curated and preserved because it is both: a dependency to access existing digital data and because it has intrinsic cultural value due to its mediating role..