III: Small: Assisted Emulation for Digital Preservation

III：小型：数字保存的辅助仿真

• 批准号: 1016967
• 负责人: Beth Plale
• 金额: $ 18.2万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1016967&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: III; Small; Assisted; Emulation; Digital

For the past 20 years, CD-ROMs have been the primary media for distributing key economic, scientifi c, environmental, and societal data as well as educational and scholarly work. More than 150,000 titles have been published including thousands distributed by the United States and other governments. Yet no viable strategy has been developed to ensure that these materials will be accessible to future generations of scholars. In the short term, these materials are subject to physical degradation which will make them ultimately unreadable and, in the long-term, technological obsolescence will make their contents unusable. This project will develop practical techniques using off-the-shelf emulators with virtualization software to ensure long-term viability of CD-ROM materials. Although emulation has been widely discussed as a preservation strategy, it suffers from a fundamental flaw, since future users are unlikely to be familiar with legacy software environments and will find such software increasingly difficult to use. Furthermore the user communities of many such materials are sparse and distributed, thus any necessary technical knowledge is unlikely to be available to library patrons. The key objective of this project is to develop the technology and processes necessary to mitigate these flaws and to enable large-scale deployment of emulation by libraries and archives.This project will develop automation technologies to capture the technical knowledge necessary to install and perform common actions with legacy CD-ROM materials in the form of scripts for performing on-the-fly customization of \generic" emulation environments. The long-term vision is to support a distributed CD-ROM collection, developed by a community of libraries, which enables client workstations to access preserved CD-ROM images through customized emulation environments. The project will explore the costs of developing the scripts necessary to automate the use of specific CD-ROMs and the technologies necessary to enable libraries to pool their resources to create a distributed network preserved CD-ROM materials.The project is structured as a two-year pilot study that will develop automation tools, apply these tools to a large (several thousand representative set of CD-ROM materials, evaluate the performance of this approach in a distributed environment, disseminate the tools and scripts as software artifacts, and provide statistics for planning the large-scale preservation of CD-ROM materials. The research performed in this proposal will enable libraries and archives to solve a growing problem while reducing the resources required to maintain their collections of removable media. This project provides a foundation for libraries and archives to pool their intellectual resources by providing access to virtual media collections accessed through shared emulators using community generated scripts. The materials whose preservation will be enabled by this project include key scientific and societal data published by United States and other governments as well as cultural and educational materials from many sources. This project will have a significant impact on undergraduate science education by direct mentoring of undergraduate research assistants and providing the opportunity for their involvement in writing and presenting scholarly works.

在过去的20年中，CD-ROM一直是分发主要经济，科学C，环境和社会数据以及教育和学术工作的主要媒体。已经发布了超过15万个头衔，其中包括美国和其他政府分发的数千个。然而，尚未制定可行的策略来确保这些材料能够为后代的学者使用。在短期内，这些材料会受到物理降解的影响，这将使它们最终无法读取，从长远来看，技术过时将使它们的内容无法使用。该项目将使用虚拟化软件的现成模拟器开发实用技术，以确保CD-ROM材料的长期生存能力。尽管仿真已被广泛讨论为一种保存策略，但它存在基本缺陷，因为未来用户不太可能熟悉旧版软件环境，并且会发现这种软件越来越困难。此外，许多此类材料的用户社区都是稀疏和分布式的，因此图书馆顾客不太可能提供任何必要的技术知识。该项目的关键目的是开发减轻这些缺陷并实现图书馆和档案的模拟部署所必需的技术和流程。该项目将开发自动化技术，以捕获与旧版CD-ROM材料一起捕获旧版CD-ROM材料的范围内的材料的必要的技术知识，以支持cd-fly IS的形式，以供开发\ forder ofermients of termiment of terme ofertimal ofertimal of termiment ofertimal coltermitization coltermitions ofertimal coltern contrantibal contrantial contressization。一个库社区，使客户可以通过自定义的仿真环境访问保留的CD-ROM图像。 CD-ROM材料，评估该方法在分布式环境中的性能，将工具和脚本作为软件工件传播，并提供统计信息，以规划CD-ROM材料的大规模保存。在本提案中进行的研究将使图书馆和档案馆能够解决日益增长的问题，同时减少维护其可移动媒体所需的资源。该项目通过使用社区生成的脚本通过共享模拟器访问的虚拟媒体收藏来访问库来汇集其智力资源的基础。该项目将启用保存的材料包括美国和其他政府发布的关键科学和社会数据，以及许多来源的文化和教育材料。该项目将通过直接指导本科研究助理，并为他们参与写作和介绍学术著作提供机会，对本科科学教育产生重大影响。