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Mission and goals of the Software Preservation Group
This document summarizes overall mission and short-term and long-term goals of the Software Preservation Group.
The Software Preservation Group strives to make the world better for software preservation by:
This web site is used to coordinate the group's work of exploring how to collect software by focusing on specific test projects aimed at a better understanding of what can and should be done in the areas of
On a long term basis we envision a software preservation community as a distributed web communities of interested active volunteers
- Sponsoring collection projects
- Helping the Computer History Museum fulfill its software mission
- Providing help for other software preservation communities
- Providing linkage to software preservation communities
- Educating interested parties to software preservation
This web site is used to coordinate the group's work of exploring how to collect software by focusing on specific test projects aimed at a better understanding of what can and should be done in the areas of
- Pro-active collecting
- A software archive
- A community of volunteers and interested parties
On a long term basis we envision a software preservation community as a distributed web communities of interested active volunteers
- Sponsoring collecting and preservation projects
- Helping with web tools and advice
- Scalable thanks to a low overhead model
- for approval and acceptance of the software
- for storage in the archive
- Assure the long term viability of the efforts
- Provide resources, and
- Will dramatically benefit for its own collection