Preserving Software: Motivations, Challenges and Approaches

Morrissey, Sheila

doi:10.7207/twgn20-02

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“…Where this is the case, an approach using techniques such as emulation or migration may be indicated, as this preserves a working version of the original visualisation, and is thus more likely to preserve all of the significant properties of the object. This is in line with recent recommendations by the Digital Preservation Coalition on preserving Software (Morrissey 2020).…”

Section: Selecting a Technical Preservation Approachsupporting

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Preserving Data Journalism: A Systematic Literature Review

Heravi

Cassidy²,

Davis

et al. 2021

Journalism Practice

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News organisations have longstanding practices for archiving and preserving their content. The emerging practice of data journalism has led to the creation of complex new outputs, including dynamic data visualisations that rely on distributed digital infrastructures. Traditional news archiving does not yet have systems in place for preserving these outputs, which means that we risk losing this crucial part of reporting and news history. Following a systematic approach to studying the literature in this area, this paper provides a set of recommendations to address lacunae in the literature. This paper contributes to the field by (1) providing a systematic study of the literature in the fields, (2) providing a set of recommendations for the adoption of long-term preservation of dynamic data visualisations as part of the news publication workflow, and (3) identifying concrete actions that data journalists can take immediately to ensure that these visualisations are not lost.

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Section: Selecting a Technical Preservation Approachsupporting

confidence: 91%

Preserving Data Journalism: A Systematic Literature Review

Heravi

Cassidy²,

Davis

et al. 2021

Journalism Practice

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“…Le contrôle de la qualité des actions de préservation est généralement coûteux, difficile et sans support technologique pour l'automatisation. • Une approche par l'émulation (Morrissey, 2020) peut être appliquée pour préserver et donner accès aux feuilles de calcul et au logiciel avec lequel elles ont été créées. • La migration d'un format à un autre peut constituer une approche viable dans certains cas, mais pourrait entraîner la perte de certaines données et/ou de fonctionnalités, en particulier pour le contenu dynamique.…”

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Préservation des feuilles de calcul

2021

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Special issue on software citation, indexing, and discoverability

Katz,

Chue Hong

2024

PeerJ Computer Science

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Software plays a fundamental role in research as a tool, an output, or even as an object of study. This special issue on software citation, indexing, and discoverability brings together five papers examining different aspects of how the use of software is recorded and made available to others. It describes new work on datasets that enable large-scale analysis of the evolution of software usage and citation, that presents evidence of increased citation rates when software artifacts are released, that provides guidance for registries and repositories to support software citation and findability, and that shows there are still barriers to improving and formalising software citation and publication practice. As the use of software increases further, driven by modern research methods, addressing the barriers to software citation and discoverability will encourage greater sharing and reuse of software, in turn enabling research progress.

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Preserving Software: Motivations, Challenges and Approaches

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Preserving Data Journalism: A Systematic Literature Review

Preserving Data Journalism: A Systematic Literature Review

Préservation des feuilles de calcul

Special issue on software citation, indexing, and discoverability

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