Dependency Analysis of Legacy Digital Materials to Support Emulation Based Preservation

Dependency Analysis of Legacy Digital Materials to Support Emulation Based Preservation

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Emulation has been widely discussed as a preservation strategy for digital documents that depend upon proprietary executables, as well as for legacy programs.The fundamental assumption of this strategy is that an artifact (document or program) will be bundled with any required contemporaneous software in an archival information package (AIP) which can be loaded and executed in De capability approach als normatief-evaluatief kader voor sociale interventies: Kwalitatief onderzoek in India met inzichten voor de Vlaamse en Nederlandse praktijk an emulation environment by patrons wishing to access the preserved artifact, yet little has been written about how to identify the required components for such an AIP.Even where a digital document was distributed AGGRESSION AS “ORGANIZED HYPOCRISY?” – HOW THE WAR ON TERRORISM AND HYBRID THREATS CHALLENGE THE NUREMBERG LEGACY with a binary viewer, there may be dependencies on other software libraries.In this paper we discuss a pilot study that performed dependency analysis for digital materials originally distributed on CD-ROM.

In particular, we show how to utilize a small number of existing off-the-shelf libraries to build a tool that can analyze executables within ISO (CD-ROM) images, and then examine the results of applying this tool to a body of archived images.