Emulation based services in digital preservation

Rechert, Klaus; Suchodoletz, Dirk von; Welte, Randolph

doi:10.1145/1816123.1816182

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“…Or perhaps emulation could resemble a special collections model where researchers are trained to witness a set of documents in the original order with which a creator originally assembled and used them over the course of their work. A number of initiatives have explored remote services, providing emulation environments for users to potentially access materials online (Rechert et al, 2010; von Suchodoletz et al, 2013; von Suchodoletz & van der Hoeven, 2009). But remote emulation access assumes broad digital rights over the software and knowledge of the original application or computing environment.…”

Section: Background: Software Emulation Digital Preservation and Studying Workflowsmentioning

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“…An emulator is intended to faithfully reproduce information, experience, or form with hardware or software, or in combination. But accessing obsolete software with emulation approaches is time and resource intensive, so emulation as a service provision for long‐term preservation and archiving is currently being experimented with (Rechert et al, 2010; von Suchodoletz et al, 2013).…”

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Emulation practices for software preservation in libraries, archives, and museums

Acker

2021

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Emulation practices are computational, technical processes that allow for one system to reproduce the functions and results of another. This article reports on findings from research following three small teams of information professionals as they implemented emulation practices into their digital preservation programs at a technology museum, a university research library, and a university research archive and technology lab. Results suggest that the distributed teams in this cohort of preservationists have developed different emulation practices for particular kinds of “emulation encounters” in supporting different types of access. I discuss the implications of these findings for digital preservation research and emulation initiatives providing access to software or software‐dependent objects, showing how implications of these findings have significance for those developing software preservation workflows and building emulation capacities. These findings suggest that different emulation practices for preservation, research access, and exhibition undertaken in libraries, archives, and museums result in different forms of access to preserved software—accessing information and experiential access. In examining particular types of access, this research calls into question software emulation as a single, static preservation strategy for information institutions and challenges researchers to examine new forms of access and descriptive representation emerging from these digital preservation strategies.

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Section: Background: Software Emulation Digital Preservation and Studying Workflowsmentioning

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Emulation practices for software preservation in libraries, archives, and museums

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2021

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“…The problem of reproducibility in computational research has been addressed by many. If re-execution of experiments is the goal, it is necessary to capture information on the entire system environment used in order to make sure respective processes can be performed under the same parameters [27] [28] . This alone is a very hard problem already, because the chain of dependencies in terms of hardware and software has to be captured and restored to the very detail.…”

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A Data Restore Model for Reproducibility in Computational Statistics

Bahls

Zapilko

Tochtermann

2013

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies

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“…Furthermore, standard system interaction is available, such as attaching/detaching removable drives (e.g. floppies, CD/DVDs) and attaching hard-drives and images to an emulator [7]. The motivation behind the distributive nature of emulation components is that each component focuses on the emulation of only a given set of systems thus increasing the overall scalability and reliability of the emulation services.…”

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bwFLA – A Functional Approach to Digital Preservation

Rechert

Valizada

Suchodoletz

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PIK - Praxis Der Informationsverarbeitung Und Kommunikation

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Emulation evolves into a mature digital preservation strategy, providing authentic functional access to a wide range of digital objects, using their original creation environments. In contrast to format migration strategies a functional, emulation-based approach requires a number of additional components, i.e. the full softwarestack required to render a digital object but also its configuration. The goal of the bwFLA project is the implementation and development of a distributed framework for emulation-based services and technologies to address Baden-Württemberg state and higher education institutes' libraries' and archives' new challenges in digital long-term preservation.The Baden-Württemberg Functional Long-Term Archiving and Access (bwFLA) 1 is a two-year state sponsored project transporting the results of past and ongoing digital preservation research into practitioners communities. Primarily, bwFLA creates tools and workflows to ensure long-term access to digital cultural and scientific assets held by the state's university libraries and archives. The project consortium brings together partners across the state, involving people from university libraries computing centers, libraries and archives, providing a broad range of background and insights into the digital preservation landscape.The project builds on existing digital preservation knowledge by integrating and extending established preservation frameworks. It will define and provide a practical implementation of archival workflows to re-enact digital objects in their original environment (e.g. creation application) where suitable migration strategies are unavailable, for instance, interactive objects, software, scientific toolchains and databases, but also digital art.

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Emulation based services in digital preservation

Cited by 7 publications

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Emulation practices for software preservation in libraries, archives, and museums

Emulation practices for software preservation in libraries, archives, and museums

A Data Restore Model for Reproducibility in Computational Statistics

bwFLA – A Functional Approach to Digital Preservation

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