The CAMiLEON (Creative Archiving at Michigan & Leeds) project is a joint undertaking by the University of Michigan and the University of Leeds to investigate the recovery of old archived computer data that has become unreadable because of changing technology. The method proposed by CAMiLEON is to emulate the obsolete hardware using modern equipment.
The project's first case study is the multimedia BBC Domesday Project created by the BBC between 1985 and 1986. The BBC published this work on Laser Discs in LVROM format, which can now be read only by a few machines, and there were fears that the data would become unreadable. CAMiLEON has successfully produced a system, DomesEm, that emulates the original hardware and allows the discs to be viewed.
Margaret Hedstrom is an Associate Professor at the School of Information, University of Michigan where she teaches in the areas of archives, electronic records management, and digital preservation.
She is project director for the CAMiLEON Project, an international research project to investigate the feasibility of emulation as a digital preservation strategy.
Before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1995, she was Chief of State Records Advisory Services and Director of the Center for Electronic Records at the New York State Archives and Records Administration.
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