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

[H.M. Gladney]

The final page of the report circulated by Dag is a submission letter signed
by David Bearman.  BTW, about 3 years ago I spent an afternoon with Bearman
(and Jennifer Trant, his sometime student and now his wife) discussing
details of digital preservation with them.  Also present was John Swinden, a
college roommate and retired Ernst & Young partner, who has been advising me
on business aspects of our work on digital preservation.

Bearman and Trant now have their offices on the 7th Floor of the Robarts
Building, which housed the University of Toronto Library.  Their Archives
and Museum Informatics consulting operation continues to thrive.  See
http://www.archimuse.com/.   

Best wishes, Henry
 
H.M. Gladney, Ph.D.   http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/

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forArchives & Museums was Concept of a Software Archive 

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

MontaVista Software
1237 East Arques Avenue
Sunnyvale, California 94085
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(408) 328-9204  fax
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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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