1. Preserving landmark legacy software with the Software Heritage Acquisition Process
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Bussi, Laura, Di Cosmo, Roberto, Montangero, Carlo, Scatena, Guido, University of Pisa - Università di Pisa, Software Heritage, Direction générale déléguée à l'innovation (DGD-I), and Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)
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[SHS.HISPHILSO]Humanities and Social Sciences/History, Philosophy and Sociology of Sciences ,Conferences -- iPRES Conference (001000) -- Conference 2021 (001016) ,acquisition process Conference Topics -new developments ,source code ,legacy software ,capacity building I ,[SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences ,[INFO.INFO-DL]Computer Science [cs]/Digital Libraries [cs.DL] ,software preservation ,software preservation, legacy software, source code, acquisition process - Abstract
International audience; The source code of landmark software developed since the beginning of the computer era is a precious part of our cultural heritage, and needs to be properly rescued, curated, archived and made available to present and future generations. In this article, we present the Software Heritage Acquisition Process, that has been designed to provide detailed guidelines on how to perform this important task, preserving important historical information. This process has been validated extensively on several important pieces of software source code of historical relevance in the University of Pisa, in collaboration with UNESCO, and is open to all for adoption and improvement.
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- 2022
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