About
Authors
Johann Latocha
Thomas Liebetraut
Klaus Rechert
Nick Russler
Leander Sabel
Oleg Stobbe
Isgandar Valizada
Dennis Wehrle
Information
Type: Emulation Service, Virtual Machine Streamer, Digital Archive
License: GPLv3
Timeline: 2013
Institution: Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg
Links
Home Page - bwFLA
Source Code - github.com
Motivation
From their home page:
Digital data is highly volatile, the processes and systems that make use of it even more so. Initially creating data and establishing workflows is very costly, in an ever-changing technological environment the upkeep presents a long-term challenge. To fulfill their designed purpose over a long period of time or for making research results, documents and decisions of today verifiable in the future, efficient and authentic access is required.
In most cases the best way to render a certain digital object is using its creating applications, since these cover most of the object’s significant properties, hence providing an authentic and possibly an interactive user experience. Therefore, emulation is a key strategy to provide a digital object’s native environment and thus maintain its original characteristics, look & feel and utility.
Rubric
✔ - Yes
✗ - No
○ - Yes, but with concession
· - Inapplicable
? - Unknown
| Infrastructure | ||
| Self-Hosting | ❓ | |
| Provides Metadata | ❓ | |
| Provides Hardware Diversity | ❓ | |
| Dispatches Work to Cloud Machines | ❓ | |
| Provides a Web Portal | ❓ | |
| Provides Performance Monitoring | ❓ |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs Code | ✔ | |
| File Storage | ❓ | |
| Collaboration Controls | ❓ | |
| Provides Citations | ❓ | |
| Interactive Graphing | ❓ | |
| Can Combine Objects Interactively | ❓ | |
| Can Archive/Run GUI Tools | ✔ | |
| Can Hook to External Services | ❓ |
| Access | ||
| Public view of object | ✔ | |
| Access Permissions for Editing | ❓ | |
| Access Permissions for Reading | ❓ | |
| Access Permissions for Anon Review | ❓ | |
| Embeddable Access | ✔ |
| Provenance | ||
| Search | ❓ | |
| Globally Unique Identifiers for Projects | ❓ | |
| Provides URL to Project / Data | ❓ |
| Governance | ||
| Open Source | ✔ | GPLv3, on github |
| Allows Modification / Redistribution | ✔ | |
| Has a Free-to-Use Package | ✔ | |
| Has a Student Package | · | |
| Has a Paid Package | · |
Walkthrough
Infrastructure
Capabilities
Access
Provenance
Governance
Strengths
To be discussed.
Breakdown
Weaknesses
To be discussed.
Breakdown
Unique Features
To be discussed.
Best-Practice Influences
To be discussed.
Digital Library Incorporation Issues
To be discussed.
Applied Use-cases
To be discussed.