Preserving.exe : toward a national strategy for software preservation.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.), issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital preservation.

Computer software--Conservation and restoration.

Computer software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (41 pages) : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress, October, 2013.

Contents:

The lures of software preservation / by Henry Lowood, Stanford University

An executable past: the case for a national software registry / by Matthew Kirschenbaum, Department of English and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland

We didn't see this coming: Our unexpected roles as software archivists and what we learned at Preserving.exe / by Alice Allen, Astrophysics Source Code Library & Peter Teuben, University of Maryland, Astronomy Department

Appendix A: Life-saving: the National Software Reference Library interview with Doug White, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Software Reference Library

Appendix B: Challenges in the curation of teme based media art interview with Michael Mansfield, Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 11, 2014).

A report from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress, focused on identifying valuable and at-risk software. Topics covered include executable software preservation, game preservation, electronic literature and ideas for approaches to ensure long-term access. It highlights issues and concerns raised at a summit held in Washington, D.C., May 20-21 2013, to identify key next steps for ensuring long term access to software.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

872561303