Corporate Archives in Silicon Valley: Building and Surviving Amid Constant Change

An historical understanding of the phenomenon that is Silicon Valley requires the collection and preservation of original records. With the rapid pace of change in the technology industry, how can archivists and their institutions preserve this corporate history? Two archivists address how they were able to found an archives at Cisco Systems and maintain another at Hewlett-Packard. Two common elements emerged: 1) the formation of a licensed limited company (LLC) as the legal structure for the archival repository, and 2) the use of outsourcing to staff both repositories. Outsourcing via a non-profit, in this case the Computer History Museum, or a for-profit archival service provider offers archival and exhibit expertise, scalability, and flexibility, all of which are instrumental for technology companies. With Silicon Valley’s headlong rush toward the future and its extensive use of contractors we believe these case studies will provide a partial mechanism for preserving Silicon Valley history

Consider the Source: The Value of Source Code to Digital Preservation Strategies

One of the major challenges in the digital preservation field is the difficulty of ensuring long-term access to digital objects, especially in cases when the software that was used to create an object is no longer current. Software source code has a human-readable, documentary structure that makes it an overlooked aspect of digital preservation strategies, in addition to a valuable component for the records of modern computing history. The author surveys several approaches to software preservation and finds that, by supporting open source initiatives, digital libraries can improve their ability to preserve access to their collections for future generations

Check Out the Library, 2016 Summer Issue

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Challenges in Preserving Video Games

Video games are challenging objects to preserve for a variety of reasons, but their value is increasingly becoming apparent to cultural heritage institutions. This study describes interviews conducted with digital preservationists at Carnegie Mellon University, the Computer History Museum, the Library of Congress, Stanford University, and The Strong National Museum of Play to determine how they define meaningful preservation of video games and what they feel are the greatest challenges to achieving this level of preservation.The obstacles the interviewees most frequently identified were laws that make it illegal to perform preservation activities without permission from copyright owners, difficulties obtaining this permission, and insufficient resources to preserve a vast amount of deteriorating media. The study concludes with interviewees’ ideas for how to overcome these problems and calls for further research on how to make video game preservation successful and scalable.Master of Science in Library Scienc

Animated Otto-Langen Atmospheric Engine

Based on an existing relationship between Dr. Owen and the Deutsches Museum, Otto-Mated was given the opportunity to collaborate with the two in a year-long senior design project. Otto-Mated was tasked with modeling and simulating the Otto-Langen Atmospheric Engine as a form of preservation and education. The model was created in SolidWorks and animated in Blender, effectively providing the museum with accurate and educational videos demonstrating the engine’s function. Within this document are the plans, decisions, and processes used to create our final product for Deutsches Museum

Combining Competition and Cooperation: A Guide to U.S. Space Relations

Space is the future for humanity. Whether that is a future of amity and cooperation, or competition and conflict depends in large part to what America makes it. While America cannot afford to entirely abandon cooperation with the world in the final frontier, neither can it afford to cede the advantage in a new field of potential warfare to adversaries in China and Russia. What is needed is a moderate path of competition where necessary and cooperation where beneficial, in order to most fully advance the cause of American national security. By utilizing arms treaties to prevent Chinese domination, while developing technologies through government investment that can serve both commercial purposes as well as potential military roles, the United States can form policy and international law in space firmly to its advantage and to the overall betterment of the world