[SCC_Active_Members] Collecting Software: A New Challenge for Archives & Museums was Concept of a Software Archive

[Lee Courtney]

Dag et al,

I suspect the report you forwarded was written by David Bearman of Museum &
Archives Informatica? I have uploaded a related paper (5.1 MB) by him
(Collecting Software: A New Challenge for Archives & Museums) to the SCC web
site and requested that it be published so that it is visble to all.

BTW - if you have not logged into the SCC site point your browser at
http://community.computerhistory.org/scc, and click the "New User?" link in
the bottom left-hand portion of the page to get started. Looks like it will
be a good collaboration tool once we get a critical mass of people active.

Cheers,

Lee Courtney

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[mailto:scc_active-bounces at computerhistory.org]On Behalf Of Dag Spicer
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 5:52 PM
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Subject: [SCC_Active_Members] Concept of a Software Archive
Importance: High


Here is a report, entitled "The Concept of a Software Archive," The Computer
Museum in Boston commissioned in 1987, nearly twenty years ago, on
collecting software.  I found it today while looking for something else!
Let it not be said that we are new to thinking about this issue!

:_)

Some of it you may find parts of it dated (refs, for example; plus this was
before the web which (mercifully) simplified the process) but it takes a
philosophy of collecting approach that is very thoughtful, high-level, and
essentially not date-dependent.

I think you will find it useful in your deliberations.

Best wishes,

D.S.

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