& OVER THE LAST twenty years, the Software History Center (SHC) and its successor, the Software Industry Special Interest Group (SI SIG), have collected, preserved, and communicated software industry history. We used three primary collection approaches: pioneer meetings, oral histories, and materials collection. For preservation, we have posted the edited transcripts of the meetings and oral histories on the Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) and the Computer History Museum (CHM) websites and archived our materials collections at CBI and CHM. Finally, for communication, Luanne Johnson created an SHC website that described and referenced every project that we did; and CBI and CHM set up their websites to access the finding aids for the collected materials and the edited transcripts. To communicate some of the information, we served as guest editors for nine special issues of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing and encouraged publication in the Annals of 25 other software history articles from practitioners and historians. Below are selected examples of our collection, preservation, and communication processes. In recounting them, I hope I convey some of the excitement I felt at the meetings, doing the oral histories, and producing the special issues of the Annals.

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查找软件行业历史

& 在过去的二十年里，软件历史中心 (SHC) 及其继任者软件行业特别兴趣小组 (SI SIG) 收集、保存和交流了软件行业历史。我们使用了三种主要的收集方法：先驱会议、口述历史和材料收集。为了保存，我们在查尔斯巴贝奇研究所 (CBI) 和计算机历史博物馆 (CHM) 网站上发布了会议和口述历史的编辑记录，并将我们的材料收藏存档在 CBI 和 CHM。最后，为了交流，Luanne Johnson 创建了一个 SHC 网站，描述和引用了我们所做的每个项目；和 CBI 和 CHM 建立了他们的网站，以访问收集材料和编辑过的成绩单的查找辅助工具。为了传达一些信息，我们担任 IEEE 计算史年鉴的九个特刊的客座编辑，并鼓励在年鉴中发表来自从业者和历史学家的其他 25 篇软件历史文章。以下是我们收集、保存和交流过程的精选示例。在讲述它们时，我希望我能传达一些我在会议、口述历史和制作年鉴特刊时感受到的兴奋。