The Software History Futures and Technologies (SHFT) Group develops tools and methodologies to support the historical preservation of computational software (in all its myriad forms). This includes everything from videogames to research support software to business applications.

We are an interdisciplinary group that makes use of methods from computer-, information-, library-, and archival science, as well as humanist history and critical theory. The overriding goal is to make the history of software more accessible, explorable and interpretable for scholars, practitioners, and students.

News
GISST System Accepted for Tutorial and Paper at Foundations of Digital Games 2024
Posted 06 Apr 2024
GISST System Presented at Born Digital Cultural Heritage 2023
Posted 30 Nov 2023
Emulation Workflows Paper Nominated at iPRES 2023
Posted 22 Sep 2023
Emulation Workflows Paper Accepted for iPRES 2023
Posted 31 May 2023
Posts
History of Software and Games Mini-Conference
Posted 03 Apr 2024 by Eric
Flash Preservation Research
Posted 13 Apr 2023 by Matilda
Emulating Bottle Village Disk on EaaSI
Posted 30 Sep 2022 by Adam
New SHFT Website is now live!
Posted 12 May 2022 by Eric
Publications
Organizing a Content Profile for a Large, Heterogeneous Collection of Interactive Projects
Kaltman IEEE Big Data 2021
Published 17 Dec 2021
An Archive of Interfaces
Cardoso-Llach et al. CSCW 2021
Published 25 Oct 2021
Emulation of Historical Software as a Tool for Research and Pedagogy
Cardoso-Llach and Kaltman Archiving 2021
Published 22 Jun 2021
Attending to Process and Data
Kaltman, ROMChip 2020
Published 10 Dec 2020