title: (HOW) IT WORKS!: A manifesto .. towards establishing a functional software collection at the Vienna museum of science and technology
creators: Nika Maltar Almut Schilling
abstract: This paper presents the decision making process involved in establishing a software collection at the Vienna Museum of Science and Technology. The museum's collecting activities have been limited to the collection of tangible heritage. The current collection strategy defines the functionality of a museum object solely as its own material manifestation. That is why the museum keeps its physical collection in a “powered-off” state to preserve its integrity and functionality for the future. 
  To integrate a functional software collection into this theoretical frame we are discussing applied terminology and have developed a manifesto to build on a solid theoretical foundation.
keywords: software collection strategy manifest open source embedded community