[Air-L] got a story about frustrations of research using old or archived software?

[sally at sally.com]

   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   The capability is available in an archived version, but circumstances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

   Sally Applin, Ph.D.
   Samsung Research America
   Intelligence Innovation Lab (Contract until 13 Oct. 2017)
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   University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
   School of Anthropology and Conservation
   Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing
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   to algorithms and automated processes. Find me at [3]sally at sally.com
   -------- 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   that's been archived if they could.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.
   --
   Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication
   Founder, Center for Media & Social Impact
   American University
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References

   1. http://www.sally.com/
   2. http://www.posr.org/
   3. mailto:sally at sally.com
   4. mailto:pat.aufderheide at gmail.com
   5. mailto:air-l at listserv.aoir.org
   6. mailto:air-l at listserv.aoir.org
   7. http://cmsimpact.org/
   8. mailto:paufder at american.edu
   9. mailto:Air-L at listserv.aoir.org
  10. http://aoir.org/
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