Notre Dame started with the EaaSI project a little more than a year ago.We hoped that engaging in the pilot phase implementation cohort would help focus our institutional efforts at software preservation.
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Some of us on the team began the project as emulation enthusiasts, and some as emulation skeptics. Our E-Research librarian & EaaSI configuration user really, really wanted to “read” Douglas Adams’ Last Chance to See CD-ROMs again because unlike in the print editions, in the CD-ROM version there are hundreds more photo-illustrations and best of all, you can listen to Adams’ narrate the stories. Last Chance to See was a BBC radio documentary series with an accompanying book written by Douglas Adams, and later, a CD-ROM with his voice recordings. (Learn more here.)
Our Project Lead was hesitant to do one-off emulations unless they had a champion and we could predict they’d have users.