[Air-L] got a story about frustrations of research using old or archived software?
sally at sally.com
sally at sally.com
Fri Sep 29 15:42:37 PDT 2017
Hi Patricia,
One of these happened just today:
Adobe Premiere Pro software used to enable wav file to text
translation. But they took it out. It is still possible to convert a
wav to text in Premiere Pro using version 7.2 or less, but 7.2 or less
requires an OS that will run 7.2, not 11. I run 11 on an updated Mac
OS, thus, I cannot install the version, thus I cannot use the feature,
thus I can no longer easily get a quick snapshot transcription, unless
I "downgrade" my machine, which isn't possible due to OS issues with
other software.
The capability is available in an archived version, but circumstances
requiring upgrades have made this not useful.
Hope this helps,
Sally
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Air-L] got a story about frustrations of research using old
or
archived software?
From: Patricia Aufderheide <[4]pat.aufderheide at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, September 29, 2017 3:12 pm
To: "[5]air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <[6]air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
I'm working with some great legal scholars on an analysis of problems
in
software preservation, and are finding great archivists, but they often
can't tell us much about what researchers would like to do with
software
that's been archived if they could. We've heard from the archivists
that
generally researchers want to access content by using obsolete
software,
and we understand that sometimes you might be interested in studying
versions or iterations of the content that might be stored on archived
software (e.;g. a WordPerfect file on an author's laptop) but we're
also
thinking that people might want to have access to archived software for
other kinds of research as well. We hypothesize that people might want
to
study the history of software, or to analyze activity on a gaming
platform,
or....gosh, we don't know. Have you had a project be frustrated because
you
couldn't go to a library or archive (virtually or physically) and get
access to archived software? If so we'd love to hear about it in any
way
you'd like to tell us. Feel free to share the request.
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