Future-Proof Preservation of Complex Software Environments
Abstract
Emulation evolves into a mature digital preservation strategy providing authentic access to a wide range of digital objects using their original creation environments. In contrast to migration, an emulation approach requires a number of additional components, namely the full software-stack required to render a digital object, and its configuration. Thus, independent of which emulator is chosen, contextual information of the original computer environment is always needed. To overcome this knowledge gap, a formalization process is required to identify the actual building blocks for an authentic rendering environment of a given object. While the information gathering workflow relies heavily on user knowledge and manual interaction during ingest, the workflow is coupled with a feedback loop so that both a complete emulation environment and preservation of desired properties for later access are ensured.Details
- Creators
- Klaus Rechert; Dirk von Suchodoletz; Isgandar Valizada
- Institutions
- Date
- 2012-09-01 00:00:00 +0000
- Keywords
- ischool; toronto; canada; emulation; digital preservation
- Publication Type
- paper
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
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