Characterization of CD-ROMs for Emulation-Based Access.
Klaus Rechert, Thomas Liebetraut, Oleg Stobbe, Isgandar Valizada, Tobias Steinke · Phaidra (Universität Wien) · 2015
Memory institutions have already collected a substantial amount of digital objects, predominantly CD-ROMs.Some of them are already inaccessible with current systems, most of them will be soon.Emulation offers a viable strategy for long-term access to these publications.However, these collections are huge and the objects are missing technical metadata to setup a suitable emulated environment.In this paper we propose a pragmatic approach to technical metadata which we use to implement a characterization tool to suggest a suitable emulated rendering environment.