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

Christiansen, Leighton

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Title

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

Author(s)

Christiansen, Leighton

Issue Date

2012-05-22T00:25:27Z

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

McDonough, Jerome P.

Department of Study

Library & Information Science

Discipline

Library & Information Science

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

M.S.

Degree Level

Thesis

Keyword(s)

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

Abstract

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 As MS2 is based on Apple’s HyperCard, a software program that is no longer updated or supported, MS2, and other works created in the same environment, face extinction unless action is taken.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.

Graduation Semester

2012-05

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

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