title: VIRTUALIZATION FOR PROCESSING AND ACCESSING DIGITAL ARCHIVES
creators: Shelly Black Brian Dietz Matthew Farrell
abstract: At a basic level, virtualization [1] is the use of a host computer or server’s resources to run other computing environments. There are many ways in which virtualized computing environments may be deployed and interacted with, including using software to virtualize additional desktops on a local computer (e.g., VirtualBox, Hyper-V Manager, or VMWare) or accessing virtual command line interfaces hosted by a server or computer cluster [2],[3], and emulating old video game systems on contemporary hardware [4]. In this paper we discuss a cross-institutional collaboration on using containerization and desktop virtualization in digital curation at academic special collections libraries.
keywords: containerization desktop virtualization virtual machine special collections born-digital archives virtual reading room