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Emulation Case Study: success with the KEGS 0.91 Apple IIgs emulator (shown here under Windows).
Pages from the FACADE research project wiki that have been categorized as related to Digital Preservation
Various digital preservation topics (other than re: CAD format representation information, per se; for that, see the CAD Format Information Topic Page).
This set of wiki pages has been collected to a single PDF.
(Page sort order is alphabetical by title.)
Brief Annotations on Topic Wiki Pages
Derivatives
Information related to the creation of derivative format files from the original files as received in the dataset from the architecture firm.
Derivatives/Notes
Notes from activity to generate derivative format files using various CAD tools. Software used, file naming conventions, steps to process original formats to various outputs, a few screenshots of dialog boxes.
Email Mailboxes
This is a survey of the acquisition, handling, and preservation of
collections of electronic mail mail messages.
Format Preservation Criteria
This page is about the criteria for choosing formats for
preservation, both when selecting submitted assets to preserve
and choosing formats for migration.
LTKR Workshop Univ Bath 2007
Knowledge management of engineering data.
Workshop Notes on Atlantic Workshop on Long Term Knowledge Retention (LTKR)
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Bath, UK
12-13 February 2007
Prototype Two/Generate Derivatives
This page describes the recommended procedure for adding ''derivative'' files to the PIM for a project. It uses the PIM AddDeriv application.
Prototype Two/Preservation Tasks
Breakdown of various tasks for overall digital preservation. Outline includes details on: 1. Triage; 2. Plan; 3. Implement; 4. Test.
Public:Emulation Case Study
A case study in the use of emulation to preserve access to obsolete CAD data files. Emulation means reproducing the program execution environment for which a piece of software was originally developed, either in software or a mixture of software and hardware.
We attempt to run a simple CAD system from about 20 years ago in order to predict the experience of digital preservationists a few decades into our future. In this case, we chose a program released about 17 years ago for the Apple II, a very popular platform.
Public:PRONOM
Page documents FACADE's relationship to the PRONOM project, and lists the changes and additions we have collected for it (some 35 modifications proposed for file format entries; plus some 150+ MIME types provided to PRONOM).
Public:Virtual Environments
This page documents emulation and virtualization technologies we investigated.
Virtualization/Emulation allows a computer system to execute programs intended for a different operating system, or an entirely different computer architecture.
We have two purposes in mind:
- Study the feasibility of emulation of computing environments as a digital preservation tool.
- For development, support the MS Windows environment required by some CAD software within the Linux OS commonly used for development and deployment.
