"The pres/urrection of Deena Larsen's ""Marble Springs, Second Edition"""

The following is a report on one effort to preserve Deena Larsen’s hypertextual poetic work Marble Springs, Second Edition (MS2). As MS2 is based on Apple’s HyperCard, a software program that is no longer updated or supported, MS2, and other works created in the same environment, face extinction unless action is taken. The experiment below details a basic documentary approach, recording functions and taking screen shots of state changes. The need to preserve significant properties is discussed, as are the costs associated with this preservation approach.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Library & Information Science

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2012

Author dc:creator

• Christiansen, Leighton

Contributors dc:contributor

• McDonough, Jerome P.

• Marble Springs
• Deena Larsen
• Marble Springs, Second Edition (MS2)
• HyperCard
• Preservation
• Digital preservation
• Software obsolescence
• Hypertext

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2012 Leighton L. Christiansen Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License 2012 Leighton L. Christiansen

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/31064

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/31064