In March 2013 the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) hosted a workshop at the LIbrary of Congress to help formulate national strategies for preserving software which I was fortunate to be able to attend. This was a helpful exploration of a very difficult, neglected, but vitally important area. A report from this meeting has just been issued, and you can find a summary, a pointer to the full report, and pointers to other materials related to the meeting at

Preserving.exe Report: Toward a National Strategy for Preserving Software | The Signal

Our world increasingly runs on software. From operating streetlights and financial markets, to producing music and film, to conducting research and scholarship in the sciences and the humanities, software shapes and structures our lives. Software is simultaneously a baseline infrastructure and a mode of creative expression. It is both the key to accessing and making …

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI