[SCC_Active_Members] Software Archive Problem Statements?

[Courtney, Lee]

> 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.

Al - are we keeping original source material (e.g. 9-track tapes, paper
tapes, punch cards, disk packs)? 

Does your point, along with opinions of practitioners (e.g. Margaret
Hedstrom) argues for maintaining this material?

Cheers,

Lee Courtney


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:scc_active-bounces at computerhistory.org] On Behalf Of Al Kossow
> Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 11:05 AM
> To: 'SCC at CHM'
> Subject: Re: [SCC_Active_Members] Software Archive Problem Statements?
> 
> 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.
> 
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