Choregraphy [private]

1. Presentation: How Jon got into digital preservation

5 minutes

2a. Activity: Test drive emulators

15 minutes

Software-for-hardware

MacOS 7 CD-ROMs

Software-for-software

Flash at the Internet Archive

I won’t define emulation, on the assumption that students have done some of the reading. I tested screensharing these and I agree that it’s better if students run them on their own machines.

2b. Discussion: When should you use emulation?

15 minutes.

I’ll share a couple slides of artworks and ask whether each should be emulated.

3. Presentation: How to prepare for a digital curation career

10+ minutes

I’ll share some slides but hope to segue quickly into q&a.

Emulation then and now

Twitter @jonippolito Mastodon @jonippolito@digipres.club

1. Jon's background

Harvard Smithsonian Center Astrophysics

Yale School Of Art Rudolph

Paik Rotunda Up Hor Sma

Paik Rotunda Jacobs Ladder Up

Paik Rotunda Jacobs Ladder Down

Beware survivorship bias

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2a. Activity: Test drive emulators

Software-for-hardware

MacOS 7 CD-ROMs

Software-for-software

Flash at the Internet Archive

Artist's archives

Solandar Box

Digital Curation Raw Material 4 Tra Vga

Migration fantasy

Osx Windows Migration Assistant

Migration reality

Migration Error Document Too Old

Microsoft Word Wont Open Word

Migration required

Structure: from Netscape HTML to W3C HTML.

Skin: new stylesheet to match the new HTML.

Behavior: custom scripts from Dreamweaver code.

Environment: edit dot-filenames.

Alternative: emulation

Who's making emulators now?

Emulators By Producer Chart

Nintendo: "The introduction of emulators...represents the greatest threat to date to the intellectual property rights of video game developers"

Emulators by amateurs

Diverging, re-converging, and constantly improving.

No one in charge.

Fceux Emulator Timeline

Emulation by amateurs: 1974-2014

FCEUX Nintendo Nes Emulator

Emulation by professionals: 2004-present

Flanagan Phage Vpc B Ill

Emulators carry context with them

Flavin Dan Guggenheim Outside

The Erl King

Seeing Dou Weinbren Ill

Grahame Weinbren and Roberta Friedman, The Erl King (1982, emulated 2004)

Visitor survey

Seeing Survey Savvy

Library of Congress: "Emulation may serve our needs better than hardware"

Daisy-chaining emulators

Edsac Emulation Daisy Chain 1

Edsac Emulation Daisy Chain 2

Edsac Emulation Daisy Chain 3

Edsac Emulation Daisy Chain 4

Preserving the archive piecemeal

Vintage Computer Separate Apps

More work.

Inaccessible.

No context.

Emulating the whole hard drive

Flusser Vilem Pc Computer

bwFLA

2b. Discussion: When should you use emulation?

Should this be emulated?

Jodi Side By Side

Should this be emulated?

Simon Color Original&Migration

Should this be emulated?

Arcangel I Shot Andy Ill

Variable Media

Rosetta Stone Kehewin Dancer

Twitter @jonippolito

Mastodon @jonippolito@digipres.club

Online certificate DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu

Book Re-collection.net

3. Presentation: How to prepare for a digital curation career

➡️ (Add DIG job title research)

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