Interactive Software Archival

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Interactive Software Archival wilkie @ wilkieii [email protected] (cc) Transcript: blah/blah/etc

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Me Computers Make Me So Happy Sometimes

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Me Computers Make Me So Grumpy Sometimes

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Systems + OSes Application File System Abstraction Drivers IPC Kernel Software Is Too Complex

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Systems + Archives Application Figure It Out, Genius Reliable Storage Hardware The Ideal System Is an Archive

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Archival

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Artifacts Mona Lisa Rosetta Stone

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Leaning Tower of Pisa 3.99° of PRESERVED TILT

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Provenance ● Even if you’ve never heard the word, we developers have created a culture around using provenance. ● Software development is sometimes aptly referred to as a Garbage Fire. ● Bundler, npm, pip, CPAN… etc… all solving the problem of the chaos of development through maintaining a record of where and when and who dependencies come from.

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Digital Artifacts 0010 1011 0110 Which Lives Longer?

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Digital Archives

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HD-Rosetta Disks Rosetta Disk Documentary: scottoller.com/rosetta

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Software As An Artifact

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What is Software? < ? >

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Ada Lovelace ...the Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides numbers… the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent. -- "Notes" Section A, 1842

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Ada Lovelace … scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.

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Code as Art

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Software Piracy Becomes Art

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Demoscene Second Reality by FUTURE CREW

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Software as an Artifact Is software preserved if it cannot be executed?

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The Internet Archive https://archive.org

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نب نسحلا ،يلع وبأ مثيهلا نب نسحلا Abū Alī al- asan ibn ʿ Ḥ al- asan ibn al-Haytham Ḥ c. 965 – c. 1040 CE

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Scientific Method Form a Question Propose Hypothesis Predict Outcome Test Analysis Record, Reflect, Repeat

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Repeatablilty Running the same experiment

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Reproducibility Running the same experiment but altering the conditions

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Science + Software Is science reproducible if you can't run the code?

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Sorry... Pessimistic CS Statistics Reproducibility Rate 32% Of Scientists Believe Slight/Significant Reproducibility Crisis 90%

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Dang it Code Publicly Available 35% Asked and received code 22% Asked but told NO 36% Asked but no response 7%

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That’s a Little Better Got it to Build: <30 minutes 58% Got it to Build: >30 minutes 28% Couldn't build it; told it should 10% Couldn't build it; told it sucks 4%

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Excuses “ Student graduated; Nobody knows how it works ”

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Science is an Interactive Narrative

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Solution: Archival

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Interactive Archival

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Solution: Virtualization “Not a Graveyard” – Erika Linke and Dan Ryan introducing the concept of Olive and executable archives.

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Olive Archive CMU (Pittsburgh!) QEMU+KVM Emulation On Top olivearchive.org

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VmNetX: Internet Suspend/Resume Virtual Machine Network eXecution; GPLv2 VM Archive Your Computer Executes VM Stream VM (HTTP)

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bwFLA University of Freiburg

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bwFLA VM Archive Your Computer Sees Video Stream Stream Video (SPICE, etc)

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http://bw-fla.uni-freiburg.de/demo-cloud.html

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Olive/bwFLA: Drawbacks Inflexible What if VM tech is obsoleted?

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Solution: Satisfaction Application Figure It Out, Genius Reliable Storage Hardware

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Ex: Commander Keen Reliable Storage Hardware 1991

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Native DOS -> Impractical Figure It Out, Genius Reliable Storage Hardware 2016

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DOSBox Hardware

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Decide How To Run Hardware

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University of Pittsburgh https://occam.software

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React To The Future x86-64 Javascript

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Javascript Emulation Reliable Storage Browser

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Adaptable (NES, SNES, etc) x86-64 Javascript XNES OR

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Scientific Workflows

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Active Curation Image Filter

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Lessons Think about how the heck your code works in the future

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AND HAVE FUN! http://wilkie.io /abstractions