Meeting Digital Preservation Requirements for Software through an Emulation Strategy

Christophe Ponsard

2021

Abstract

Digital preservation aims at ensuring digital artefacts remain accessible and usable. This includes preserving application software for the resulting experience but also software required to provide access to valuable digital artefacts. This paper surveys different preservation strategies of such software with a focus on the use of emulation which is gaining momentum over the more traditional migration approach. We highlight some requirements to consider when selecting emulators. We illustrate the process on the preservation of software on a micro-computers of the 1980’s. We also discuss how to design software architectures for the long term preservation of the emulators themselves.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ponsard C. (2021). Meeting Digital Preservation Requirements for Software through an Emulation Strategy. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-758-523-4, pages 318-323. DOI: 10.5220/0010602903180323

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft21,
author={Christophe Ponsard},
title={Meeting Digital Preservation Requirements for Software through an Emulation Strategy},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2021},
pages={318-323},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010602903180323},
isbn={978-989-758-523-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Meeting Digital Preservation Requirements for Software through an Emulation Strategy
SN - 978-989-758-523-4
AU - Ponsard C.
PY - 2021
SP - 318
EP - 323
DO - 10.5220/0010602903180323