Preserving.exe
Subtitle: toward a national strategy for software preservation
Publisher: National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Digital preservation; Computer software; Conservation and restoration
Notes: A report from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress, focused on identifying valuable and at-risk software. Topics covered include executable software preservation, game preservation, electronic literature and ideas for approaches to ensure long-term access.  It highlights issues and concerns raised at a summit held in Washington, D.C., May 20-21 2013, to identify key next steps for ensuring long term access to software.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The lures of software preservation / by Henry Lowood, Stanford University; title: An executable past: the case for a national software registry / by Matthew Kirschenbaum, Department of English and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland; title: We didn't see this coming: Our unexpected roles as software archivists and what we learned at Preserving.exe / by Alice Allen, Astrophysics Source Code Library & Peter Teuben, University of Maryland, Astronomy Department; title: Appendix A: Life-saving: the National Software Reference Library interview with Doug White, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Software Reference Library; title: Appendix B: Challenges in the curation of teme based media art interview with Michael Mansfield, Smithsonian American Art Museum.