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Title

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

Names

  • National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • [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.

Headings

  • -  Computer software--Conservation and restoration
  • -  Digital preservation

Notes

  • -  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.
  • -  Title from PDF title page; viewed on 2014-03-11.

Medium

  • 1 online resource : PDF

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Z701.3.C65

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2013655114

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

National Digital Information Infrastructure And Preservation Program, U.S. Preserving.exe: Toward a National Strategy for Software Preservation. [Washington, D.C.: National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress, October, 2013] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2013655114/.

APA citation style:

National Digital Information Infrastructure And Preservation Program, U. S. (2013) Preserving.exe: Toward a National Strategy for Software Preservation. [Washington, D.C.: National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress, October] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2013655114/.

MLA citation style:

National Digital Information Infrastructure And Preservation Program, U.S. Preserving.exe: Toward a National Strategy for Software Preservation. [Washington, D.C.: National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress, October, 2013] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2013655114/>.