title: Long-Term Preservation of a Software Execution State
creators: Rafael Gieschke Klaus Rechert Euan Cochrane
abstract: Software is a very complex product, offering an endless number of different states and appearances. To foster academic discussion about software-based cultural and scientific phenomena like computer games, digital art, or scientific computational models, it is necessary to be able to reference specific moments of running software. In this article, we discuss the possibilities to “freeze” software while being executed and describe constraints for the long-term preservation of these snapshots.
keywords: emulation program snapshots