[SCC_Active_Members] Software Archive Problem Statements?

[Al Kossow]

Larry Masinter wrote:
> What about a software archive makes it significantly
> different from any other kind of information archive?

The information recovered from media cannot be assumed to
be correct. It may be mislabeled (not not labeled at all)
overwriten, or corrupted from the original with things like
viruses.

This is a HUGE difference from the known-correct assumptions
archivists can make about digital content going into something
like a document archive.

I am in the middle of a first draft of "The Realities of Software
Preservation" which goes into these front end problems.