CAMiLEON Research Key areas of CAMiLEON research are described below: Software Longevity Emulation Migration on Request User Evaluation - Coming soon Costing digital preservation - Coming soon Software Longevity CAMiLEON's key preservation strategies involving the design and production of software tools which interpret and render the original bytestreams of digital objects. Software tools in themselves are of course digital objects and need to be preserved over time. In order to enable this, CAMiLEON has developed techniques for software longevity. By creating a simple software migration path from language to language over time, software preservation tools can be economically and accurately maintained in the long term. These software tools are produced in a subset of a current, static language. This language will only contain elements that are likely to be found in future programming languages. This enables the software tools to be economically migrated from language to language. For more information, see C--ing Ahead for Digital Longevity. Emulation Emulation is a digital preservation strategy that holds great promise for the future. By emulation, we mean the re-creation on current hardware of the technical environment required to view and use digital objects from earlier times. As the digital preservation community increasingly takes emulation seriously there is still considerable debate about how to deploy the technique. Until recently, the lack of any real practical work has left these arguments on a purely theoretical (or more correctly hypothetical) level, and the CAMiLEON Project is attempting to redress the balance. For more information, see Emulation Preservation and Abstraction. Migration on Request