Long-Term Preservation of a Software Execution State

Gieschke, Rafael; Rechert, Klaus; Cochrane, Euan

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Title

Long-Term Preservation of a Software Execution State

Author(s)

• Gieschke, Rafael
• Rechert, Klaus
• Cochrane, Euan

Issue Date

2023

Keyword(s)

• Emulation
• Program Snapshots

Abstract

Software is a very complex product, offering an endless number of different states and appearances. To foster academic discussion about software-based cultural and scientific phenomena like computer games, digital art, or scientific computational models, it is necessary to be able to reference specific moments of running software. In this article, we discuss the possibilities to “freeze” software while being executed and describe constraints for the long-term preservation of these snapshots.

Series/Report Name or Number

iPRES 2023

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Copyright held by the author(s). The text of this paper is published under a CC BY-SA license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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