ePubs
The open archive for STFC research publications
Home
About ePubs
Content Policies
News
Help
Privacy/Cookies
Suggest an Enhancement
Contact ePubs
Full Record Details
Persistent URL
http://purl.org/net/epubs/work/51397
Record Status
Checked
Record Id
51397
Title
A Framework for Software Preservation
Contributors
Brian Matthews
,
Arif Shaon
,
Juan Bicarregui
,
Catherine Jones
Abstract
Software preservation has not had detailed consideration as a research topic or in practical application. In this paper, we present a conceptual framework to capture and organise the main notions of software preservation, which are required for a coherent and comprehensive approach. This framework has three main aspects. Firstly a discussion of what it means to preserve software via a performance model which considers how a software artefact can be rebuilt from preserved components and can then be seen to be representative of the original software product. Secondly the development of a model of software artefacts, describing the basic components of all software, loosely based on the FRBR model for representing digital artefacts and their history within a library context. Finally, the definition and categorisation of the properties of software artefacts which are required to ensure that the software product has been adequately preserved. These are broken down into a number of categories and related to the concepts defined in the OAIS standard.
Organisation
ESC
,
STFC
,
ESC-SA
Keywords
curation
,
software preservation
,
ontology
Funding Information
Related Research Object(s):
Licence Information:
Language
English (EN)
Type
Details
URI(s)
Local file(s)
Year
Paper In Conference Proceedings
In 5th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC 2009), London, UK, 2-4 Dec 2009, (2009).
DCC2009_SWPres.pdf
2009
Journal Article
International Journal of Digital Curation 5, no. 1 (2010).
doi:10.2218/ijdc.v5i1.145
145-675-1-PB.pdf
2010
Presentation
Presented at The 5th International Digital Curation Conference (DCC09), London, ..
DCC-09.ppt
2009
Showing record 1 of 1
Recent Additions
Browse Organisations
Browse Journals/Series
Login to add & manage publications and access information for OA publishing
Username:
Password:
Useful Links
Chadwick & RAL Libraries
SHERPA FACT
SHERPA RoMEO
SHERPA JULIET
Journal Checker Tool
Google Scholar