Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. A few words about Digital Preservation and Book Overview
2. The fairy tale of Cinderella
3. Daphne (a modern Cinderella)
4. Reading the contents of the USB stick
5. The first contact with the contents of the USB stick
6. The file poem.html – On Reading Characters
7. The file MyPlace.png – On Getting the Provenance of a Digital Object
8. The file todo.csv – On Understanding Data Value
9. The file destroyAll.exe – On Executing Proprietary Software
10. The file MyMusic.class – On Decompiling Software
11. The file yyy.java – On Compiling and Running Software
12. The file myFriendsBook.war – On Running Web Applications
13. The file roulette.pas – On Running Obsolete Software
14. The folder myExperiment – On Verifying and Reproducing Data
15. The file MyContacts.con – On Reading unknown Digital Resources
16. The file secretMeeting.txt – On Authenticity Checking
17. The personal archive of Robert – On Preservation Planning
18. The meta-pattern: Towards a Common Umbrella
19. How Robert eventually found Daphne
20. Daphne’s Dream
21. Epilogue
22. Index