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Description
Using digital data necessarily involves software. How do institutions think about software in the context of the long-term usability of their data assets? How do they address usability challenges uniquely posed by software such as, license restrictions, legacy software, code rot, and dependencies? These questions are germane to the agenda set forth by the FAIR principles. At Yale University, a team in the Library is looking into the application of a novel approach to emulation as a potential solution. In this presentation, we will outline the work of the Emulation as a Service Infrastructure (EaaSI) program, discuss our plans for integrating the tooling of the EaaSI program into archiving and scientific workflows, and report on early work exploring how emulation relates to the computational reproduction of results from data archived at Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) and other research data repositories.
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Saving Software and Using Emulation to Reproduce Computationally Dependent Research Results
Using digital data necessarily involves software. How do institutions think about software in the context of the long-term usability of their data assets? How do they address usability challenges uniquely posed by software such as, license restrictions, legacy software, code rot, and dependencies? These questions are germane to the agenda set forth by the FAIR principles. At Yale University, a team in the Library is looking into the application of a novel approach to emulation as a potential solution. In this presentation, we will outline the work of the Emulation as a Service Infrastructure (EaaSI) program, discuss our plans for integrating the tooling of the EaaSI program into archiving and scientific workflows, and report on early work exploring how emulation relates to the computational reproduction of results from data archived at Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) and other research data repositories.
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/dayofdata/2019/posters/1