Geoffrey Brown (Indiana.edu) - Emulation for Long-Term Preservation of Digital Artifacts #PABC2015
Channel: iMAL Brussels
Date: 2015-12-08

In the continuation of their collaborative program on Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age which started beginning of 2015, iMAL and Packed organised the first international symposium in Brussels on the issues of preservation of born-digital art and culture and their public access.

http://www.imal.org/preservationsymposium

Geoffrey Brown / Indiana.edu
Sustainable Emulation for Long-Term Preservation of Digital Artifacts

The challenges with preserving born-digital materials have been widely acknowledged and there have been endless debates about how "best" to accomplish the goal of long-term access. In this talk I will describe my work over the past decade on the use of emulation technologies to support materials that require contemporaneous software and "hardware" for their execution. While the initial focus of this work was library materials, it has direct application to multimedia materials. In addition, I will describe a new project, in its initial stages, to provide secure access at a distance. The fundamental problem I and my students are attempting to solve is to allow remote patrons the ability to access protected materials without unnecessarily leaking sensitive information. At the same time, we are leveraging widely available virtualization technology to simplify the distribution and support of emulation platforms, which have their own preservation issues.

About Geoffrey Brown
Geoffrey Brown is a Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He received the BS in engineering from Swarthmore College, MSEE from Stanford University, and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. He taught at Cornell from 1987-1997 and worked as a research scientist at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, and architect at several networking start-ups. From 2012-2014 he was a program manager at the National Science Foundation. His research interests include verification and design of digital systems, and the preservation of born digital materials.

- http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~geobrown/AssistedEmulation/

Intro music: Dighom - Nuurat (https://archive.org/details/apl009)