Current Projects
Citing Interactive Texts for Education and Scholarship (CITES)
The CITES project aims to investigate how immediate access to past software works via emulation can be integrated into pedagogy and research.
Interlisp.org
Interlisp/Medley was the first mouse driven GUI interface. SHFT associates are helping Interlisp.org with documentation and testing of an emulator for Interlisp.
Game and Interactive Software Scholarship Toolkit (GISST)
The GISST program allowed for the executable citation of computing run-times.
Emulation as a Service Infrastructure (EaaSI)
A Mellon and Sloan funded distributed emulation network that allows for in-browser access to emulated systems.
Flash Preservation in the Wild
An ongoing study of the effects of Adobe Flash discontiuation and community preservation efforts.
Visualization of an Interactive Project Development Backup
Using various methods to visualize the contents of a large collection of interactive project backups
Interactive Projects File Format Analysis
A longitudinal analysis of 14TB of interactive project backup data gathered from a 20-year period at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center.
Game Metadata and Citation Project Controlled Vocabularies (GAMECIP)
GAMECIP was a multi-year IMLS-funded investigation of metadata needs and citation practices surrounding computer games in instititutional collections.