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Preservation Candidates’ Testing

Preservation Candidates’ Testing. Bernard L. PEUTO. Preservation Candidates. Active: MacPaint Fortran PDP-1 Software (?) Proposed: 1401 Software Postscript Adventure game software Early Powerpoint Augment Software An operating system (Multics, or OS360, or MS/DOS) The vi editor

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Preservation Candidates’ Testing

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  1. Preservation Candidates’ Testing BernardL. PEUTO

  2. Preservation Candidates • Active: • MacPaint • Fortran • PDP-1 Software (?) • Proposed: • 1401 Software • Postscript • Adventure game software • Early Powerpoint • Augment Software • An operating system (Multics, or OS360, or MS/DOS) • The vi editor • Need more active tests

  3. Fortran Status • Paul McJones

  4. MacPaint Status • 3 hours plus of oral history taken by Grady Booch on June 8, 2004 of Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson • Donation of source code listings and electronic version • Donation of screen design pictures • Apple’s agreement on IP

  5. Possible Phases • Gathering Information and artifacts • Long elapse time and low duty cycle • Entering information in archive • Scanning • Data conversion • Simple meta data • Archive entries • Information access curation • Oral history • User access support • Open to public

  6. MacPaint Oral History’s Test • Room small • A/C noise • Could use a banner • Document and object display required (elmo) • Team of oral history takers • For training • To help on follow up questions • Process to accept donations • Multiplicity of oral histories • Who did what, when • Document description • S/W demonstration • Feature commenting via document and software demo

  7. Next Steps • Understand better the donation accession process (with Allison Akbay) • Defining better the archive’s target audiences • Refining the deliverables list • Establishing more training modules • Describing the success factors for this testing phase • What processes • What guidelines • What training modules • How much information is accessible to the public • Planning the 2005 Workshop and Community Building

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