# index

title: Building The Business Case And Funding Advocacy For Data Management Services
creators: ["Paul Stokes", "Neil Beagrie", "William Kilbride"]
type: workshop
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2016-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2016"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2016/papers/building-the-business-case-and-funding-advocacy-for-data-managem/

abstract:
In this hands on workshop we will address the tools, models and process used when building the business case for data management services including those relating to, research data, preservation, curation, discovery and access. We examine and test the use of existing tools with real world institutional problems and potential future tools/services.

links:
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title: Assigning Rights Statements to Legacy Digital Collections
creators: ["Laura Capell", "Elliot Williams"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2016-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2016"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2016/papers/assigning-rights-statements-to-legacy-digital-collections/

abstract:
This poster reports on a project at the University of Miami Libraries to evaluate the rights status of legacy materials that have been digitized for online access in the UM Digital Collections, and to assign item-level rights statements to over 52,000 items.

links:
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title: CERN Services for Long Term Data Preservation
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2016-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2016"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2016/papers/cern-services-for-long-term-data-preservation/

creators:
["Frank Berghaus", "Tibor Simko", "Jamie Shiers", "Gerardo Ganis", "Sünje Dallmeier Tiessen", "Germán Cancio Melia", "Jakob Blomer"]

abstract:
In this paper we describe the services that are offered by CERN [3] for Long Term preservation of High Energy Physics (HEP) data, with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as a key use case. Data preservation is a strategic goal for European High Energy Physics (HEP) [9], as well as for the HEP community worldwide and we position our work in this global content. Specifically, we target the preservation of the scientific data, together with the software, documentation and computing environment needed to process, (re-)analyse or otherwise (re-)use the data. The target data volumes range from hundreds of petabytes (PB – 1015 bytes) to hundreds of exabytes (EB – 1018 bytes) for a target duration of several decades. The Use Cases driving data preservation are presented together with metrics that allow us to measure how close we are to meeting our goals, including the possibility for formal certification for at least part of this work. Almost all of the services that we describe are fully generic – the exception being Analysis Preservation that has some domain-specific aspects (where the basic technology could nonetheless be adapted).

links:
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creators: ["Andrea Ruth Schreiber"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2016-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2016"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Copyright in Cultural Heritage Institutions Snapshot of the Situation in Switzerland from a national library perspective

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2016/papers/copyright-in-cultural-heritage-institutions-snapshot-of-the-situ/

abstract:
This paper outlines some of the most relevant copyright obstacles libraries in the cultural heritage institutions sector currently face, when trying to fulfill their mission in the digital context. For each of the four main activities – collecting, cataloguing, making available and preservation – the essential copyright issues will be outlined against the background of the legal situation in Switzerland. Where possible, short references to a broader copyright context and the laws of other countries will be given. Particular emphasis will be placed on cataloguing and making available documents as the current ongoing Swiss copyright revision contains some innovative approaches: a catalogue privilege as well as new regulations for the handling of orphan works and mass digitization. Concerning collecting and preserving, at least some relevant questions in relation to copyright will be posed in order to maybe launch further discussions.

links:
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title: The Status of Compliance with OAIS Reference Model in the National Diet Library Digital Collections
creators: ["Tsukasa Kimezawa", "Shuji Kamitsuna"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2016-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2016"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2016/papers/the-status-of-compliance-with-oais-reference-model-in-the-nation/

abstract:
The National Diet Library (NDL) has been providing access to digitized library materials via the Internet since 2002. The NDL has been digitizing books and magazines continuously since then, and collecting digitized materials from other institutions. In addition to digitized materials, NDL began to collect online publications (electronic books and electronic magazines) that were not protected by Digital Rights Management (DRM) from the Internet in 2013. The NDL Digital Collections was launched in 2011 to collect, preserve, and distribute these materials. This paper provides an overview of the NDL Digital Collections and discusses current achievements as well as the challenges faced in effecting long-term preservation while meeting the functional requirements of the OAIS reference model.

links:
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creators: ["Marcel Ras"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2016-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2016"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Building a Future for our Digital Memory A National Approach to Digital Preservation in The Netherlands

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2016/papers/building-a-future-for-our-digital-memory-a-national-approach-to/

abstract:
In 2015 the national Network for Digital Heritage was established. This network is based on three pillars: to make the digital heritage wider visible, better usable and more sustainable preserved. A series of collaborative projects are in progress since Summer 2015, framed within three working programs, all with their own but integrated set of dedicated actions in order to create a national infrastructure in the Netherlands, based on an optimal use of existing facilities. In this paper the focus is on the activities related to the sustainable preservation of the Dutch national digital heritage. What are the developments and where are we now, with the program running for a year and the first results are delivered.

links:
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title: A Method for Acquisition and Preservation of Emails
creators: ["Claus Jensen", "Christen Hedegaard"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2016-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2016"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2016/papers/a-method-for-acquisition-and-preservation-of-emails/

abstract:
In this paper we describe new methods for the acquisition of emails from a broad range of people and organisations not directly connected with the organization responsible for the acquisition. Existing methods for acquisition of emails are based either on having easy access to an institution’s email server, or a labour intensive process of transferring the emails from donors’ email clients, involving for example visits to the individual donors. Furthermore, we describe how different representations of the acquisitioned emails are ingested into our repository. The use of different representations makes it possible for us to perform a fine grained file characterisation, thereby facilitating the level of preservation watch we want in connection with the preservation of the acquisitioned emails.

links:
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title: Autonomous Preservation Tools in Minimal Effort Ingest
creators: ["Asger Askov Blekinge", "Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen", "Bolette Ammitzbøll Jurik"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2016-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2016"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2016/papers/autonomous-preservation-tools-in-minimal-effort-ingest/

abstract:
This poster presents the concept of Autonomous Preservation Tools, as developed by the State and University Library, Denmark. The work expands the idea of Minimal E_ort Ingest, where most preservation actions such as Quality Assurance and enrichment of the digital objects are performed after content is ingested for preservation, rather than before. We present our Newspaper Digitisation Project as a case- study of real-world implementations of Autonomous Preser- vation Tools.

links:
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title: Geospatial Data
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2016/papers/geospatial-data/
creators: ["Helen Gollin", "Martin Schlatter", "Urs Gerber"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2016-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2016"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
abstract:
In this poster, we describe a work package of the project Ellipse - archiving of official geospatial data under federal legislation in Switzerland. The work package treats the Conservation and Archiving Planning for all the geospatial data of the federal administration. The Conservation and Archiving Planning allows to determine how long a set of geospatial data is kept at the authority responsible and if it is of archival value or not. An overarching, coordinated and joint planning is of fundamental importance when dealing with geospatial data sets, so to ensure the combinability in the long term.

links:
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title: Web Archiving Environmental Scan
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2016/papers/web-archiving-environmental-scan/
creators: ["Gail Truman", "Andrea Goethals"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2016-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2016"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
abstract:
This poster session summarizes the output of a comprehensive Web archiving environmental scan conducted between August and December 2015, with a focus on the preservation-related findings. The scan was commissioned by Harvard Library and made possible by the generous support of the Arcadia Fund.

links:
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title: iPRES 2016 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Digital Preservation
creators: ["Barbara Signori", "Steve Knight", "Natasa Milic-Frayling"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2016-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2016"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2016/papers/ipres-2016-proceedings-of-the-13th-international-conference-on-d/

abstract:
From October 3-6, 2016, the Swiss National Library was pleased to host the 13th annual iPRES Conference.

links:
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title: OAIS for all of us
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2016/papers/oais-for-all-of-us/
creators: ["William Kilbride", "Barbara Sierman", "Marcel Ras", "Sabine Schrimpf"]
abstract: In this panel we will discuss various aspects of the ISO 17421: 2012 OAIS standard.
type: panel
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2016-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2016"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
links:
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title: Developing a Community Capability Model Framework for data-intensive research
creators: ["Liz Lyon", "Alexander Ball", "Monica Duke", "Michael Day"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/developing-a-community-capability-model-framework-for-data-inten/

abstract:
Researchers across a range of fields have been inspired by the
possibilities of data-intensive research. In many cases, however,
researchers find themselves unable to take part due to a lack of
facilities, insufficient access to data, cultural disincentives, and a
range of other impediments. In order to develop a deeper
understanding of this, UKOLN, University of Bath and Microsoft
Research have been collaborating on developing a Community
Capability Model Framework (CCMF) designed to assist
institutions, research funding-bodies and researchers to enhance
the capability of their communities to perform data-intensive
research. This paper explores the rationale for using capability
modelling for informing the development of data-intensive
research and outlines the main capability factors underlying the
current version of the CCMF.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "data-intensive research", "fourth paradigm", "capability modeling", "research data", "managing research data"]

links:
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title: Developing Research Data Management Capability: the View from a National Support Service
creators: ["Sarah Jones", "Graham Pryor", "Angus Whyte"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/developing-research-data-management-capability-the-view-from-a-n/

abstract:
An increasing number of UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are developing Research Data Management (RDM) support services. Their action reflects a changing technical, social and political environment, guided by principles set out in the Research Councils UK (RCUK) Common Principles on Data Policy. These reiterate expectations that publicly-funded research should be openly accessible, requiring that research data are effectively managed. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) policy framework is particularly significant, as it sets a timeframe for institutions to develop and implement a roadmap for research data management.
The UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is responding to such changes by supporting universities to develop their capacity and capability for research data management. This paper describes an ‘institutional engagement’ programme, identifying our approach, and providing examples of work undertaken with UK universities to develop and implement RDM services. We are working with twenty-one HEIs over an eighteen month period, across a range of institution types, with a balance in research strengths and geographic spread. The support provided varies based on needs, but may include advocacy and awareness raising, defining user requirements, policy development, piloting tools and training. Through this programme we will develop a service model for institutional support and a transferable RDM toolkit.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "research data management", "data sharing", "university", "higher education", "infrastructure", "research data policy", "data management"]

links:
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creators: ["Dinesh Katre"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
An Overview of Digital Preservation Considerations for Production of “Preservable” e-Records: An Indian e-Government Case Study

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/an-overview-of-digital-preservation-considerations-for-productio/

abstract:
In the Indian context, when the e-government records are received for archival purpose, it is observed that very often they are produced without proper compliances for long term digital preservation. This paper presents a case study of e-district Mission Mode Project which offers diverse citizen services and produces the e-records such as birth certificates, domicile certificates, marriage certificates, caste certificates, etc in very large volumes. Such born digital e-government records have to be retained and preserved for technological and legal reasons. The Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation established at C- DAC, Pune, India has carried out the study of e-record production process in the e-district and the need analysis for its digital preservation. The digital preservation best practices are identified, which have to be incorporated in the production process of e- records, so that the final e-records are produced in “preservable” form with full compliance as per the requirements of OAIS.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "e-government", "digital preservation", "electronic records", "fixed digital object", "preservation description information (pdi)", "submission information package (sip)", "open archival information system (oais)"]

links:
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creators: ["Joao Rocha da Silva", "Cristina Riberio", "Joao Correia Lopes"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Digital preservation, archives management, format migration, transformation, at scale, normalization

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/digital-preservation-archives-management-format-migration-transf/

abstract:
In a recent scoping study we have inquired into the data management needs of several research groups at the Uni- versity of Porto and concluded that data quality and ease of on-line data manipulation are among the most valued features of a data repository. This paper describes the en- suing approach to data curation, designed to streamline the data depositing process and built on two components: a curation workflow and a data repository. The workflow in- volves a data curator who will assist researchers in provid- ing meaningful descriptions for their data, while a DSpace repository was customised to satisfy common data deposit and exploration requirements. Storing the datasets as XML documents, the repository allows curators to deposit new datasets using Excel spreadsheets as an intermediate for- mat, allowing the data to be queried on-line and the results retrieved in the same format. This dedicated repository pro- vides the grounds for collecting researcher feedback on the curation process.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "research data management", "data repositories", "dspace extension", "digital curation"]

links:
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title: Towards a Decision Support Architecture for Digital Preservation of Business Processes
type: paper
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital preservation", "decision support", "business processes"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/towards-a-decision-support-architecture-for-digital-preservation/

creators:
["Martin Alexander Neumann", "Michael Beigl", "Rudolf Mayer", "Hossein Miri", "John Thomson", "Goncalo Antunes"]

abstract:
In this paper, we present and address a number of challenges in digital preservation of entire business processes: (1) identifying digital objects a business process depends on (“What to preserve and why?”); (2) identifying significant changes in digital objects (“When to preserve and why?”); (3) determining a re-deployment setting (“What to re-deploy and why?”). After highlighting these challenges, we illustrate some aspects of business processes that are relevant in the context of digital preservation and provide a model to capture their semantics formally. We, then, proceed to present a decision support architecture to address the challenges using the developed model. We, finally, conclude the paper by discussing the applicability of our proposed model and its associated techniques.

links:
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title: LDS3: Applying Digital Preservation Principals to Linked Data Systems
creators: ["David Tarrant", "Les Carr"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/lds3-applying-digital-preservation-principals-to-linked-data-sys/

abstract:
Data publishing using semantic web and linked data techniques enables the sharing of detailed information. Importantly this information is shared using common standards and vocabularies to enable simple re-use. In the digital preservation community, an increasing number of systems are adopting linked data techniques for sharing data, including the PRONOM and UDFR technical registries. In many systems, only current information is being shared. Further, this information is not being described with data relating to who and when it was published. Such basic metadata is seen as essential in all digital preservation systems, how- ever has been overlooked to a large extent when publishing linked data. This failing is partly due to there being very few specifications, reference implementations and verification systems in place to aid with publishing this type of linked data. This publication introduces the Linked Data Simple Storage Specification, a solution that enables careful curation linked data by following a series of current best practise guidelines. Through construction of a reference implementation, this work introduces how historical information can be referenced and discovered in order to build customisable alerting services for risk management in preservation systems.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "linked data", "curation", "semantic web", "risk management", "preservation systems"]

links:
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title: Migration at Scale: A Case Study
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/migration-at-scale-a-case-study/
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
creators:
["Sheila M. Morrissey", "Suresh Kadirvel", "William J. Howard", "Vinay Cheruku", "John Meyer", "Matthew Stoeffler"]

abstract:
Increasing experience in developing and maintaining large repositories of digital objects suggests that changes in the large- scale infrastructure of archives, their capabilities, and their communities of use, will themselves necessitate the ability to manage, manipulate, move, and migrate content at very large scales.
Migration at scale of digital assets, whether those assets are deposited with the archive, or are created as preservation system artifacts by the archive, and whether migration is employed as a strategy for managing the risk of format obsolescence, for repository management, or for other reasons, is a challenge facing many large-scale digital archives and repositories.
This paper explores the experience of Portico (www.portico.org), a not-for-profit digital preservation service providing a permanent archive of electronic journals, books, and other scholarly content, as it undertook a migration of the XML files that document the descriptive, technical, events, and structural metadata for approximately 15 million e-journal articles in its archive. It describes the purpose, planning, technical challenges, and quality assurance demands associated with digital object migration at very large scales.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital preservation", "archives management", "format migration", "transformation", "at scale", "normalization"]

links:
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title: Towards a Long-term Preservation Infrastructure for Earth Science Data
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/towards-a-long-term-preservation-infrastructure-for-earth-scienc/

creators:
["Arif Shaon", "Felix Engel", "David Giaretta", "Esther Conway", "Brian Matthews", "Yannis Tzitzikas", "Yannis Marketakis", "Holger Brocks", "Ugo di Giammatteo", "Jinsongdi Yu", "Raffaele Guarino", "Fulvio Marelli", "Shirley Crompton"]

abstract:
The effective preservation of both current and historical scientific data will underpin a multitude of ecological, economic and political decisions that shape the future of our society. The SCIDIP-ES project addresses the long-term preservation of the knowledge encoded in scientific data by providing preservation e- infrastructure services which support the persistent storage, access and management needs. Using exemplars from the Earth Science domain we highlight the key preservation challenges and barriers to be overcome by the SCIDIP-ES infrastructure. SCIDIP-ES augments existing science data e-infrastructures by adding specific services and toolkits which implement core preservation concepts, thus guaranteeing the long-term access and exploitation of data assets across and beyond their designated communities.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital preservation", "e-infrastructure", "earth science", "services"]

links:
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title: The Applicability of Workflow Management Systems for the Preservation of Business Processes
creators: ["Rudolf Mayer", "Stefan Proell", "Andreas Rauber"]
type: paper
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "e-science", "research infrastructures", "process preservation"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/the-applicability-of-workflow-management-systems-for-the-preserv/

abstract:
Digital preservation research has increasingly been shifting focus from the preservation of data and static objects to investigate the preservation of complete processes and workflows. Capturing all aspects of a process to be preserved, however, is an extensive and difficult undertaking, as it requires capturing complete software setups with potentially complex setups. Further, the process might use external services that are not easy to capture and monitor. In this paper, we therefore investigate the applicability and usability of using Workflow Management Systems for executing processes in a standard environment where the state of the process can be closely monitored. To this end, we compare three popular workflow management systems. We use a scenario from eScience, implementing a data analysis process, to evaluate the challenges and implications for establishing sustainable and verifiable eScience processes.

links:
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title: Digital Preservation Of Business Processes with TIMBUS Architecture
type: paper
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital preservation", "business process"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/digital-preservation-of-business-processes-with-timbus-architect/

creators:
["Mykola Galushka", "Martin Alexander Neumann", "Stephan Strodl", "Philip Taylor", "Wasif Gilani", "John Thomson"]

abstract:
The majority of existing digital preservation solutions are focusing on the long-term storage of digital content such as documents, images, video, audio files and other domain specific data. Preservation of an Information Technology infrastructure for supporting business processes is a much more challenging task. It requires the preservation of software and hardware stacks as well as relevant contexts, which together, provide an execution layer for running business processes. The proposed TIMBUS architecture addresses limitations of existing digital preservation solutions and provides a complete framework for preserving business processes implemented upon a service oriented architecture.

links:
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title: An Architectural Overview of the SCAPE Preservation Platform
creators: ["Rainer Schmidt"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/an-architectural-overview-of-the-scape-preservation-platform/

abstract:
Cloud and data-intensive computing technologies have introduced novel methods to develop virtualized and scalable applications. The SCAPE Preservation Platform is an environment that leverages cloud computing in order to overcome scalability limitations in the context of digital preservation. In this paper, we provide an overview of the platform architecture and its system requirements. Furthermore, we present a flexible deployment model that can be used to dynamically reconfigure the system and provide initial insights on employing an open-source cloud platform for its realization.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "cloud computing", "scalability", "digital preservation", "open-source software"]

links:
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title: Demo – An Integrated System-Preservation Workflow
creators: ["Isgandar Valizada", "Klaus Rechert", "Dirk von Suchodoletz", "Sebastian Schmelzer"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/demo-an-integrated-system-preservation-workflow/

abstract:
Preserving a full computer system for long-term access is in some cases the option of last resort. In these situations the system consists of complex workflows and tool-chains paired with custom configuration such that the dismantling of individual components is too time consuming or even impossible to be carried out. For such situations a defined system-preservation workflow is required, ideally integrated into a digital preservation framework to ensure future rendering ability and quality.
This demonstration presents an integrated system-preservation workflow, designed to be performed by non-technical users and to ensure long-term access (e.g. through emulation) with guaranteed system properties. Furthermore, the workflow leverages a distributed framework, enabling on-site preservation tasks, while making use of a common shared knowledge base and ready-made access preview technologies.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "system preservation", "workflows", "digital preservation", "emulation"]

links:
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title: Business Process Preservation: How to capture, document & evaluate?
creators: ["Stephan Strodl", "Daniel Draws", "Goncalo Antunes", "Andreas Rauber"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/business-process-preservation-how-to-capture-document-evaluate/

abstract:
Preserved digital data is often of limited use and value, due to the unavailability of the environment where the data has been generated, executed, analysed, and presented. The preservation of complete processes, including the supporting infrastructure, raises a number of new challenges. In highly computerized firms, processes are often based on service oriented architectures with services provided by third parties. Digital preservation of business processes requires keeping the data, software services and infrastructure available for long time spans. The strong intra- and interdependencies of components make modification and adoption for preservation highly complex. Besides the technical challenges, the organisation and legal aspects of a process need to be considered as well. Contracts for external services, licences for software, access rights to business data and national data regulations for sensible data have to be taken into account when preserving complex information systems. The TIMBUS project targets the research and development of methods and tools for preserving business processes over time. This poster presents a phased phases approach and the processes to capture and identify the relevant context, plan preservation actions and execute and store business process for the future.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital preservation", "business process", "preservation infrastructure", "information systems"]

links:
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creators: ["Martin Halbert", "Katherin Skinner", "Matt Schultz"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Preserving Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Findings of the Lifecycle Management for ETDs Project

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/preserving-electronic-theses-and-dissertations-findings-of-the-l/

abstract:
This paper conveys findings from four years of research conducted by the MetaArchive Cooperative, the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), and the University of North Texas to investigate and document how academic institutions may best ensure that the electronic theses and dissertations they acquire from students today will be available to future researchers.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "archival information packages", "data management", "digital archives", "digital curation", "digital libraries", "electronic theses and dissertations", "etds", "digital objects", "digital preservation", "distributed digital preservation", "ingest", "interoperability", "micro- services", "repository software", "submission information packages"]

links:
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title: Addressing data management training needs: a practice- based approach from the UK
creators: ["Laura Molloy", "Simon Hodson", "Stephane Goldstein", "Joy Davidson"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/addressing-data-management-training-needs-a-practice-based-appro/

abstract:
In this paper, we describe the current challenges to the effective management and preservation of research data in UK universities, and the response provided by the JISC Managing Research Data programme.
This paper will discuss, inter alia, the findings and conclusions from data management training projects of the first iteration of the programme and how they informed the design of the second, paying particular attention to initiatives to develop and embed training materials.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "research data management", "training", "skills", "digital curation", "digital preservation", "universities", "research infrastructure", "research support staff", "postgraduate student research training"]

links:
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title: Web Archiving Effort in National Library of China
creators: ["Qu Yunpeng"]
type: paper
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "national library of china", "web archiving"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/web-archiving-effort-in-national-library-of-china/

abstract:
In this paper, we introduce the effort in National Library of China in recent years, including resources accumulation, software development and works in Promotion Project in China. We have developed a platform for Chinese web archiving. And we are building some sites to propagate our works to the nation. At last we figure out some questions about the web archiving in China. 

links:
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title: Ahead of the CurV: Digital Curator Vocational Education
creators: ["Laura Molloy", "Ann Gow"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/ahead-of-the-curv-digital-curator-vocational-education/

abstract:
In this paper, we describe the work of the EC-funded DigCurV project. We examine the context of the project, the methods and findings of its extensive survey work, and the development of proposed frameworks for evaluating and delivering a digital curation curriculum.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "training", "education", "skills", "skills frameworks", "vocational training", "lifelong learning", "curriculum development", "digital curation", "europe"]

links:
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title: CRISP: Crowdsourcing Representation Information to Support Preservation
creators: ["Maureen Pennock", "Andrew N. Jackson", "Paul Wheatley"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/crisp-crowdsourcing-representation-information-to-support-preser/

abstract:
In this paper, we describe a new collaborative approach to the
collection of representation information to ensure long term access to digital content. Representation information is essential for successful rendering of digital content in the future. Manual
collection and maintenance of RI has so far proven to be highly resource intensive and is compounded by the massive scale of the challenge, especially for repositories with no format limitations.
This solution combats these challenges by drawing upon the wisdom and knowledge of the crowd to identify online sources of representation information, which are then collected, classified, and managed using existing tools. We suggest that nominations can be harvested and preserved by participating established web archives, which themselves could obviously benefit from such extensive collections. This is a low cost, low resource approach to collecting essential representation information of widespread relevance.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "representation information", "crowdsourcing", "digital preservation", "web archiving", "community engagement", "social networking"]

links:
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title: An ontology-based model for preservation workflows
creators: ["Michalis Mikelakis", "Christos Papatheodorou"]
type: paper
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital preservation workflows", "ontology", "oais model"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/an-ontology-based-model-for-preservation-workflows/

abstract:
This paper aims to propose an ontology for the main digital preservation workflows carried out by an organization or an archival system. The proposed ontology covers the entire preservation life cycle, starting from the ingestion of digital resources and including internal functions, such as system administration and preservation planning policies, and access control. Fifty workflow models have been represented using the ontology, which takes into account the special characteristics and features specified by the international standards, as well as the existing metadata schemas for preservation. The proposed ontology supports the decision making of the collection managers, who design preservation policies and follow practices, by providing a knowledge-based tool able to guide, encode and
(re)use their reasoning and choices.

links:
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title: PDF to PDF/A: Evaluation of Converter Software for Implementation in Digital Repository Workflow
creators: ["Jamin Koo", "Carol C.H. Chou"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/pdf-to-pdf-a-evaluation-of-converter-software-for-implementation/

abstract:
PDF/A is a version of Portable Document Format backed by ISO standard that is designed for archiving and preservation of electronic documents. Many electronic documents exist in PDF format. Due to its popularity, the ability to convert an existing PDF into a conforming PDF/A file is as important, if not more, as being able to produce documents in PDF/A format in digital preservation. In recognition of this fact and encouraged by growing interest from its affiliates, the Florida Digital Archive (FDA) conducted an evaluation of several of the PDF to PDF/A converter applications, the result of which is reported in this paper. There is room for interpretation in the ISO standards concerning PDF/A, which can be manifest in the development of software. In selecting a PDF to PDF/A converter product, reliability of the outcome in terms of PDF/A compliance must be established along with functionality. The goal of this paper is not to rank or promote the software evaluated, but rather to document the FDA’s evaluation process and present the results in such a way that they provide insight into challenges and potential drawbacks during similar evaluation or implementation.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "portable document format", "digital documents", "digital preservation", "converters"]

links:
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creators: ["Claudia-Melania Chituc", "Petra Ristau"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Requirements Elicitation for a Long Term Digital Preservation System: A Case Study from the Financial Sector

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/requirements-elicitation-for-a-long-term-digital-preservation-sy/

abstract:
Companies face challenges towards designing and implementing a preservation system to store the increasing amounts of digital data they produce and collect. The financial sector, in particular the investment business, is characterized by constantly increasing volumes of high frequency market and transaction data which need to be kept for long periods of time (e.g., due to regulatory compliance). Designing and developing a system ensuring long term preservation of digital data for this sector is a complex and difficult process. The work presented in this article has two main objectives: (1) to exhibit preservation challenges for the financial sector/ investment business, and (2) to present and discuss preliminary results of the requirements elicitation process, with focus on the financial sector - work pursued towards the design and development of a preservation system, within the scope of the on-going R&D FP7 project ENSURE – Enabling kNowledge Sustainability Usability and Recovery for Economic value (http://ensure-fp7.eu). Requirements, use cases and scenarios identified for the financial sector are presented and discussed. The agenda for future research work is also presented.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "requirements elicitation", "financial sector", "digital preservation system"]

links:
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title: From cataloguing to digital curation: the role of libraries in data exchange
creators: ["Susan K. Reilly"]
type: paper
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital curation", "research data sharing", "libraries"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/from-cataloguing-to-digital-curation-the-role-of-libraries-in-da/

abstract:
This paper describes the work of the Opportunities for Data Exchange (ODE) project, a project funded by the European Commission under Framework Programme 7. This project investigates issues surrounding data preservation, reuse and exchange from both sociological and technical view points.
Led by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), the project has sought out stories of success and honorable failures. It has also brought together representatives of key stakeholder in the data preservation and sharing landscape. This has enabled dialogue between these stakeholder in order to identify opportunities for researchers, publishers and libraries to play their part in data exchange.
The growing need for research data preservation and curation services, the linking of data to publications, and increasing awareness of the potential of data sharing for innovation, presents a major opportunity for libraries to redefine their roles and embed themselves in the research process. In November 2011 ODE surveyed the 420 plus LIBER member libraries to establish what demand from researchers libraries are experiencing for support in data exchange, what roles they need to fulfill, and what new skills they need to develop and how. The results clearly emphasised the importance of the development of the role of the library in digital curation.

links:
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title: Blogs as Objects of Preservation: Advancing the Discussion on Significant Properties
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/blogs-as-objects-of-preservation-advancing-the-discussion-on-sig/

creators:
["Karen Stepanyan", "Seamus Ross", "Matthias Trier", "Mike Joy", "Alexandra I. Cristea", "George Gkotsis", "Hendrik Kalb", "Yunhyong Kim"]

abstract:
The quest for identifying ‘significant properties’ is a common challenge for the digital preservation community. While the methodological frameworks for selecting these properties provide a good foundation, a continued discussion is necessary for further clarifying and improving the available methods. This paper advances earlier work by building on the existing InSPECT framework and improving its capabilities of working with complex/compound objects like blogs. The modifications enable a more thorough analysis of object structures, accentuate the differences and similarities between the framework’s two streams of analysis (i.e. Object and Stakeholder analysis) and, subsequently, improve the final reformulation of the properties. To demonstrate the applicability of the modified framework, the paper presents a use case of a blog preservation initiative that is informed by stakeholder interviews and evaluation of structural and technological foundations of blogs. It concludes by discussing the limitations of the approach and suggesting directions for future research.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "blogs", "weblogs", "digital preservation", "significant properties"]

links:
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title: Formats over Time: Exploring UK Web History
creators: ["Andrew N. Jackson"]
type: paper
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "software obsolescence", "internet", "web domains"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/formats-over-time-exploring-uk-web-history/

abstract:
Is software obsolescence a significant risk? To explore this issue, we analysed a corpus of over 2.5 billion resources cor- responding to the UK Web domain, as crawled between 1996 and 2010. Using the DROID and Apache Tika identification tools, we examined each resource and captured the results as extended MIME types, embedding version, software and hardware identifiers alongside the format information. The combined results form a detailed temporal format profile of the corpus, which we have made available as open data. We present the results of our initial analysis of this dataset. We look at image, HTML and PDF resources in some detail, showing how the usage of different formats, versions and software implementations has changed over time. Further- more, we show that software obsolescence is rare on the web and uncover evidence indicating that network effects act to stabilise formats against obsolescence.

links:
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title: Digital Preservation of Newspapers: Findings of the Chronicles in Preservation Project
creators: ["Katherine Skinner", "Matt Schultz", "Martin Halbert", "Mark Phillips"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/digital-preservation-of-newspapers-findings-of-the-chronicles-in/

abstract:
In this paper, we describe research led by Educopia Institute regarding the preservation needs for digitized and born-digital newspapers. The Chronicles in Preservation project, builds upon previous efforts (e.g. the U.S. National Digital Newspaper Program) to look more broadly at the needs of digital newspapers in all of their diverse and challenging forms. This paper conveys the findings of the first research phase, including substantive survey results regarding digital newspaper curation practices.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "archival information packages", "data management", "digital archives", "digital curation", "digital libraries", "digital newspapers", "digital objects", "digital preservation", "distributed digital preservation", "ingest", "interoperability", "micro-services", "repository software", "submission information packages"]

links:
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title: Audio Quality Assurance: An Application of Cross Correlation
creators: ["Bolette Ammitzboll Jurik", "Jesper Sindahl Nielsen"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/audio-quality-assurance-an-application-of-cross-correlation/

abstract:
We describe algorithms for automated quality assurance on content of audio files in context of preservation actions and access. The algorithms use cross correlation to compare the sound waves. They are used to do overlap analysis in an access scenario, where preserved radio broadcasts are used in research and annotated. They have been applied in a mi- gration scenario, where radio broadcasts are to be migrated for long term preservation. This work was partially supported by the SCAPE Project.
The SCAPE project is co-funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT-2009.4.1 (Grant Agreement number 270137).

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "audio files", "digital preservation", "migration", "radio broadcasts"]

links:
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title: Challenges in Accessing Information in Digitized 19th-Century Czech Texts
creators: ["Karel Kucera", "Martin Stluka"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/challenges-in-accessing-information-in-digitized-19th-century-cz/

abstract:
This short paper describes problems arising in optical character recognition of and information retrieval from historical texts in languages with rich morphology, rather discontinuous lexical development and a long history of spelling reforms. In a work-in- progress manner, the problems and proposed linguistic solutions are shown on the example of the current project focused on improving the access to digitized Czech prints from the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "information retrieval", "known-item retrieval", "historical text", "lemma", "hyperlemma"]

links:
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creators: ["Nir Sherwinter", "Gary T. Wright"]
type: paper
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital preservation", "data corruption", "tape archive"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Advancing Data Integrity in a Digital Preservation Archive Ex Libris and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/advancing-data-integrity-in-a-digital-preservation-archive-ex-li/

abstract:
By working collaboratively with Ex Libris and utilizing advanced tape drives plus the sophisticated data integrity features of StorageGRID, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been able to advance the state of the art of data integrity and long term preservation in a rapidly growing digital preservation archive.

links:
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title: Preservation Is Knowledge: A community-driven preservation approach
creators: ["Sophie Derrot", "Sebastien Peyrard", "Clement Oury", "Louise Fauduet"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/preservation-is-knowledge-a-community-driven-preservation-approa/

abstract:
In the beginning, SPAR, the National Library of France's repository, was designed as the OAIS softwarified. It was intended to be a "full OAIS", covering all preservation needs in one tidy system. Then as its potential revealed itself across the library, high hopes arose for a do-it-all digital curation tool. Yet in day to day preservation activities of the BnF, it turns out that SPAR's growth takes a practical approach to the essentials of preservation and the specific needs of communities. Renewed dialogue with producers and users has led to the addition of functions the digital preservation team would not have thought of. This is very clear in what has been created to ingest the BnF's web archives into SPAR, giving the community more information on their data, and in what is taking shape to deal with the BnF's administrative archives, adding new functionalities to the system.The difference between what preservations tools and what curation tools should be at the BnF will have to be examined over time, to ensure all the communities' needs are met while SPAR remains viable.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital curation", "preservation repository", "web legal deposit", "digital archives"]

links:
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title: iPRES 2012: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects
creators: ["Reagan Moore", "Kevin Ashley", "Seamus Ross"]
type: paper
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital preservation"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/ipres-2012-proceedings-of-the-9th-international-conference-on-pr/

abstract:
From October 1‐5, 2012, the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information was pleased to host the ninth annual iPRES Conference. 

The conference hosted three keynote presentations: Steve Knight of the National Library of New Zealand gave a paper on “Implementing Guidelines for Preservation of Digital Heritage”; Kevin Ashley, Director of the UK’s Digital Curation Centre on “Good Research, Good Data, Good Value: the Digital Curation Centre and the Changing Curation Landscape”; and Yunhyong Kim of blogforever, whose paper was entitled “Digital Preservation: A Game of Prediction”. Technical sessions at the conference were on central preservation topics like Preservation Assessment, Training, Preserving Text Objects, Site Reports, Business Processes, Preservation Environments, Models, Concepts, and Community Approaches.

links:
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title: DuraCloud, Chronopolis and SDSC Cloud Integration
creators: ["Andrew Woods", "Michael Burek", "Bill Branan", "David Minor", "Don Sutton"]
type: poster
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital preservation", "cloud storage", "integration"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/duracloud-chronopolis-and-sdsc-cloud-integration/

abstract:
In this paper we describe the interaction of three different systems: DuraCloud, a cloud-based service provider, Chronopolis, a digital preservation network, and the San Diego Computer Center’s cloud service. This interaction is targeted to developing a new storage and preservation service available to a wide range of users

links:
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creators: ["Simone Sacchi", "Karen M. Wickett", "Allen H. Renear"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Will Formal Preservation Models Require Relative Identity? An exploration of data identity statements

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/will-formal-preservation-models-require-relative-identity-an-exp/

abstract:
The problem of identifying and re–identifying data put the notion of of ”same data” at the very heart of preservation, integration and interoperability, and many other fundamental data curation activities. However, it is also a profoundly challenging notion because the concept of data itself clearly lacks a precise and univocal definition. When science is con- ducted in small communicating groups, with homogeneous data these ambiguities seldom create problems and solutions can be negotiated in casual real-time conversations. However when the data is heterogeneous in encoding, con- tent and management practices, these problems can produce costly inefficiencies and lost opportunities. We consider here the relative identity view which apparently provides the most natural interpretation of common identity statements about digitally–encoded data. We show how this view conflicts with the curatorial and management practice of “data” objects, in terms of their modeling, and common knowledge representation strategies.

In what follows we focus on a single class of identity statements about digitally–encoded data: “same data but in a different format”. As a representative example of the use of this kind of statements consider the dataset “Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) Data Center Closings 2010-2013”1 , available at Data.gov. Anyone can “Down- load a copy of this dataset in a static format”. The available formats include CSV, RDF, RSS, XLS, and XML. Each of this is presumably an encoding of the “same data”. We explore three approaches to formalization into first order logic and for each we identify distinctive tradeoffs for preservation models. Our analysis further motivates the development of a system that will provide a comprehensive treatment of data concepts. 

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "data", "identity", "scientific equivalence", "data curation", "digital preservation"]

links:
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title: Retrocomputing as Preservation
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/retrocomputing-as-preservation/
creators: ["Yuri Takhteyev", "Quinn DuPont"]
type: poster
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "retrocomputing", "software preservation", "remix"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
abstract:
This project explores the world of retrocomputing, a constellation of largely—though not exclusively—non-professional practices involving old computing technology. Retrocomputing includes many activities that can be seen as constituting “preservation,” and in particular digital preservation. At the same time, however, it is often transformative, producing assemblages that “remix” fragments from the past with newer elements or joining historic components that were never previously combined. While such “remix” may seem to undermine preservation, it allows for fragments of computing history to be reintegrated into a living, ongoing practice, contributing to preservation in a broader sense. The seemingly unorganized nature of retrocomputing assemblages also provides space for alternative “situated knowledges” and histories of computing, which can be quite sophisticated. Recognizing such alternative epistemologies in turn paves the way for alternative approaches to preservation. The institutional digital preservation community may have a lot to gain from paying closer attention to retrocomputing. This gain, however, should not just involve looking for ways to make use of the knowledge and labor of retrocomputing enthusiasts. Rather, it is important to recognize the value of their projects on their own terms and ask in what ways institutional efforts can support such projects.

links:
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title: Assessing Digital Preservation Capabilities Using a Checklist Assessment Method
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/assessing-digital-preservation-capabilities-using-a-checklist-as/

creators:
["Goncalo Antunes", "Christoph Becker", "Jose Borbinha", "Diogo Proenca", "Jose Barateiro", "Ricardo Vieira"]

abstract:
Digital preservation is increasingly recognized as a need by organizations from diverse areas that have to manage information over time and make use of information systems for supporting the business. Methods for assessment of digital preservation compliance inside an organization have been introduced, such as the Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist. However, these methods are oriented towards repository-based scenarios and are not geared at assessing the real digital preservation capabilities of organizations whose information management processes are not compatible with the usage of a repository-based solution. In this paper we propose a checklist assessment method for digital preservation derived from a capability-based reference architecture for digital preservation. Based on the detailed description of digital preservation capabilities provided in the reference architecture, it becomes possible to assess concrete scenarios for the existence of capabilities using a checklist. We discuss the application of the method in two institutional scenarios dealing with the preservation of e-Science data, where clear gaps where identified concerning the logical preservation of data. The checklist assessment method proved to be a valuable tool for raising awareness of the digital preservation issues in those organizations.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "repository audit and certification", "trust", "digital preservation", "reference architecture", "checklist assessment"]

links:
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title: The Community­-driven Evolution of the Archivematica Project
creators: ["Peter van Garderen", "Courtney C. Mumma"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/the-community-driven-evolution-of-the-archivematica-project/

abstract:
In this paper, we discuss innovations by the Archivematica project as a response to the experiences of early implementers and informed by the greater archival, library, digital humanities and digital forensics communities. The Archivematica system is an implementation of the ISO-OAIS functional model and is designed to maintain standards-based, long-term access to collections of digital objects. Early deployments have revealed some limitations of the ISO-OAIS model in the areas of appraisal, arrangement, description, and preservation planning. The Archivematica project has added requirements intended to fill those gaps to its development roadmap for its micro-services architecture and web-based dashboard. Research and development is focused on managing indexed backlogs of transferred digital acquisitions, creating a SIP from a transfer or set of transfers, developing strategies for preserving email, and receiving updates about new normalization paths via a format policy registry (FPR).

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "archivematica", "digital preservation", "archives", "oais", "migration", "formats", "premis", "mets", "digital forensics", "agile development", "open-source", "appraisal", "arrangement", "description", "acquisition"]

links:
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title: Preservation Watch: What to monitor and how
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/preservation-watch-what-to-monitor-and-how/

creators:
["Christoph Becker", "Jose Carlos Ramalho", "Miguel Ferreira", "Kresimir Duretec", "Petar Petrov", "Luis Faria"]

abstract:
For successful preservation operations, a preservation system needs to be capable of monitoring compliance of preservation operations to specifications, alignment of these operations with the organisation’s preservation objectives, and associated risks and opportunities. This requires linking a number of diverse information sources and specifying complex conditions. For example, the content to be preserved needs to be related to specifications of significant properties, to the file formats used to represent that content, to the software environments available to analyse, render and convert it and the technical environments available to the designated user communities that will consume this content.
This article analyses aspects of interest in a preservation context that call for automated monitoring and investigates the feasibility of drawing sufficient information from diverse sources together and linking it in a meaningful way. We define a number of preservation triggers that lead to preservation planning activities and present the requirements and a high-level design of a preservation watch system that is currently being developed. We demonstrate the value of such a monitoring approach on a number of scenarios and cases.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital preservation", "preservation planning", "monitoring", "watch"]

links:
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title: Evaluating Assisted Emulation for Legacy Executables
creators: ["Swetha Toshniwal", "Enrique Areyan", "Geoffrey Brown", "Kevin Cornelius", "Gavin Whelan"]
type: paper
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "emulation", "assisted emulation", "digital preservation"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/evaluating-assisted-emulation-for-legacy-executables/

abstract:
Access to many born-digital materials can only be accomplished economically through the use of emulation where contemporaneous software is executed on an emulated ma- chine. For example, many thousands of CD-ROMs have been published containing proprietary software that cannot be reasonably recreated. While emulation is proven technology and is widely used to run both current and obsolete versions of Windows and Unix operating systems, it suffers a fatal flaw as a preservation strategy by requiring future users to be facile with today’s operating systems and software.
We have previously advocated “assisted emulation” as a strategy to alleviate this shortcoming. With assisted emulation, a preserved object is stored along with scripts designed to control a legacy software environment and access to the object enabled through a “helper” application. In this pa- per we significantly extend this work by examining, for a large data set, both the cost of creating such scripts and the common problems that these scripts must resolve.

links:
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title: Bibliobloggers’ Preservation Perceptions, Preferences, and Practices
creators: ["Carolyn Hank", "Cassidy R. Sugimoto"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/bibliobloggers-preservation-perceptions-preferences-and-practice/

abstract:
The biblioblogosphere comprises the personal, typically professional-oriented publication of blogs by information and library science practitioners, researchers, and educators. This poster presents preliminary findings from a descriptive study examining bibliobloggers’ attitudes and preferences for digital preservation, and their respective blog publishing behaviors and blog characteristics influencing preservation action. Findings will be compared to those from an earlier study of blogging scholars from the fields of history, economics, law, biology, chemistry and physics. When considering their dual role as publishers contributing to the scholarly record and, in reflection of their professional roles, work relating to stewardship of this record, bibliobloggers present an exceptional case to extend and better understand the phenomenon of blogging in academe and implications for long-term stewardship of this form.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "weblogs", "bloggers", "blogs", "digital preservation", "scholarly communication"]

links:
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title: A Digital Repository Year: One Museum’s Quest for the Basics
creators: ["Paula Jabloner", "Katherine Kott"]
type: poster
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital repositories", "digital preservation"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/a-digital-repository-year-one-museums-quest-for-the-basics/

abstract:
The Computer History Museum (CHM) had its own mini deluge of digital data. Our in-house produced high definition oral histories, lectures and exhibition videos were usurping our available server space at over 60 terabytes, with another 10 terabytes of historic digital artifacts including images and software. With the aid of grant funds from Google.org, CHM took on the work of creating a prototype digital repository in one year. The digital repository working group is excited about the possibilities the new repository represents for expanding our digital collection while putting the Museum in the forefront of small cultural institutions creating digital repositories and we hope to share what we have learned with other similar organizations.

links:
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title: Aggregating a Knowledge Base of File Formats from Linked Open Data
creators: ["Roman Graf", "Sergiu Gordea"]
type: poster
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "linked data", "data repositories", "digital preservation"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/aggregating-a-knowledge-base-of-file-formats-from-linked-open-da/

abstract:
This paper presents an approach for semi-automatic aggregation of knowledge on computer file formats used to support planning for long term preservation. Our goal is to create a solid knowledge base from linked open data repositories which represents the fundament of the DiPRec recommender system. The ontology mapping approach is employed for collecting the information and integrating it in a common domain model. Furthermore, we employ expert rules for inferring explicit knowledge on the nature and preservation friendliness of the file formats.

links:
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title: On the Complexity of Process Preservation: A Case Study on an E-Science Experiment
creators: ["Rudolf Mayer", "Stephan Strodl", "Andreas Rauber"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/on-the-complexity-of-process-preservation-a-case-study-on-an-e-s/

abstract:
Digital preservation of (business) processes is an emerging topic in Digital Preservation research. Information technology driven processes are complex digital objects, living in an broad context of aspects relevant to their preservation. In this poster, we detail the broad environment of one sample process from the domain of E-Science, a genre classification experiment in the domain of Music Information Retrieval. We show the magnitude of aspects involved, on technology as well as organisational, legal and other aspects.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "process preservation", "case study", "e-science", "digital preservation"]

links:
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title: Authenticity Management in Long Term Digital Preservation of Medical Records
creators: ["Silvio Salza", "Maria Guercio"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/authenticity-management-in-long-term-digital-preservation-of-med/

abstract:
Managing authenticity is a crucial issue in the preservation of digital medical records, because of their legal value and of their relevance to the Scientific Community as experimental data. In order to assess the authenticity and the provenance of the records, one must be able to trace back, along the whole extent of their lifecycle since their creation, all the relevant events and transformations they have undergone and that may have affected their authenticity and provenance and collect the Preservation Description Information (PDI) as categorized by OAIS. This paper presents a model and a set of operational guidelines to collect and manage the authenticity evidence to properly document these transformations, that have been developed within the APARSEN project, a EU funded NoE, as an implementation of the InterPARES conceptual framework and of the CASPAR methodology. Moreover we discuss the implementation of the guidelines in a medical environment, the health care preservation repository in Vicenza Italy, where digital resources have a quite complex lifecycle including several changes of custody, aggregations and format migrations. The case study has proved the robustness of the methodology, which stands as a concrete proposal for a systematic and operational way to deal with the problem of authenticity management in complex environments.  Work partially supported by the European Community under the Information Society Technologies (IST) program of the 7th FP for RTD - project APARSEN, ref. 269977.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "authenticity", "digital preservation", "e-health", "medical records."]

links:
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title: The Community­-Driven Evolution of the Archivematica Project
creators: ["Peter van Garderen", "Courtney C. Mumma"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/the-community-driven-evolution-of-the-archivematica-project/

abstract:
In this paper, we discuss innovations by the Archivematica project as a response to the experiences of early implementers and informed by the greater archival, library, digital humanities and digital forensics communities. The Archivematica system is an implementation of the ISO-OAIS functional model and is designed to maintain standards-based, long-term access to collections of digital objects. Early deployments have revealed some limitations of the ISO-OAIS model in the areas of appraisal, arrangement, description, and preservation planning. The Archivematica project has added requirements intended to fill those gaps to its development roadmap for its micro-services architecture and web-based dashboard. Research and development is focused on managing indexed backlogs of transferred digital acquisitions, creating a SIP from a transfer or set of transfers, developing strategies for preserving email, and receiving updates about new normalization paths via a format policy registry (FPR).

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "archivematica", "digital preservation", "archives", "oais", "migration", "formats", "premis", "mets", "digital forensics", "agile development", "open-source", "appraisal", "arrangement", "description", "acquisition"]

links:
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title: Curating the Specificity of Metadata while World Models Evolve
creators: ["Yannis Tzitzikas", "Anastasia Analyti", "Mary Kampouraki"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/curating-the-specificity-of-metadata-while-world-models-evolve/

abstract:
The main digital preservation strategies are based on metadata
and in many cases SemanticWeb languages, like RDF/S, are used for expressing them. However RDF/S schemas or ontologies are not static, but evolve. This evolution usually happens independently of the “metadata” (ontological instance descriptions) which are stored in the various Metadata Repositories (MRs) or Knowledge Bases (KBs). Nevertheless,
it is a common practice for a MR/KB to periodically update its ontologies to their latest versions by “migrating” the available instance descriptions to the latest ontology versions. Such migrations incur gaps regarding the specificity of the migrated metadata, i.e. inability to distinguish those descriptions that should be reexamined (for possible specialization as consequence of the migration) from those for which no reexamination is justified. Consequently, there is a need for principles, techniques, and tools for managing the uncertainty incurred by such migrations, specifically techniques for (a) identifying automatically the descriptions that are candidate for specialization, (b) computing, ranking and recommending possible specializations, and (c) flexible interactive techniques for updating the available descriptions (and their candidate specializations), after the user (curator of the repository) accepts/rejects such recommendations. This problem is especially important for curated knowledge bases which have increased quality requirements (as in e-Science). In this paper we elaborate on this problem, we propose a general approach, and discuss examples and a prototype application that we have developed assuming the RFD/S framework.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital preservation", "metadata", "metadata repositories", "migrations"]

links:
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title: Interoperability Framework for Persistent Identifiers systems
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/interoperability-framework-for-persistent-identifiers-systems/

creators:
["Barbara Bazzanella", "Rene van Horik", "David Giaretta", "Maurizio Lunghi", "Emanuele Bellini", "Paolo Bouquet", "Chiara Cirinna"]

abstract:
In this paper, we propose an Interoperability Framework (IF) for Persistent Identifiers (PI) systems that addresses functions, roles and responsibilities needed to make heterogeneous PI systems interoperable. The fundamental steps, which provided the main inputs for the design of the model have been: 1) a survey on the use of PI among different stakeholder communities and 2) the definition of interoperability use cases and requirements. The IF is presented as a solution addressing the PI interoperability issues, which have been identified in the survey and have been translated into concrete use cases to serve as requirements for designing the model. Conclusions and intended future work close the paper.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "persistent identifiers (pi)", "pi domain (pid)", "digital preservation (dp)", "interoperability framework (if)", "reference model", "trust"]

links:
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title: Package Formats for Preserved Digital Material
creators: ["Eld Zierau"]
type: paper
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "package formats", "digital preservation", "bit preservation"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/package-formats-for-preserved-digital-material/

abstract:
This paper presents an investigation of the best suitable package formats for long term digital preservation. The choice of a package format for preservation is crucial for future access, thus a thorough analysis of choice is important.
The investigation presented here covers setting up requirements for package formats used for long term preserved digital material, and using these requirements as the basis for analysing a range of package formats.
The result of the concrete investigation is that the WARC format is the package format best suited for the listed requirements. Fulfilling the listed requirements will ensure mitigating a number of risks of information loss. Thus WARC is the best choice for a package format in cases where these same risks are judged most
important. Similar analysis will need to be carried out in cases where the requirements differ from the ones described here, e.g. if there are specific forensic or direct access to files.

links:
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title: Rethinking authenticity in digital art preservation
creators: ["Perla Innocenti"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/rethinking-authenticity-in-digital-art-preservation/

abstract:
In this paper I am discussing the repositioning of traditional conservation concepts of historicity, authenticity and versioning in relation to born digital artworks, upon findings from my research on preservation of computer-based artifacts. Challenges for digital art preservation and previous work in this area are described, followed by an analysis of digital art as a process of components interaction, as performance and in terms of instantiations. The concept of dynamic authenticity is proposed, and it is argued that our approach to digital artworks preservation should be variable and digital object responsive, with a level of variability tolerance to match digital art intrinsic variability and dynamic authenticity.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital preservation", "digital art", "authenticity", "instantions", "perfomances", "music notation"]

links:
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title: Describing Digital Object Environments in PREMIS
creators: ["Angela Dappert", "Sebastien Peyrard", "Janet Delve", "Carol C.H. Chou"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/describing-digital-object-environments-in-premis/

abstract:
“Digital preservation metadata” is the information that is needed in order to preserve digital objects successfully in the longterm so that they can be deployed in some form in the future. A digital object is not usable without a computing environment in which it can be rendered or executed. Because of this, information that describes the sufficient components of the digital object’s computing environment has to be part of its preservation metadata. Although there are semantic units for recording environment information in PREMIS 2, these have rarely, if ever, been used. Prompted by increasing interest in the description of computing environments, this paper describes on-going efforts within the PREMIS data dictionary’s Editorial Committee to define an improved metadata description for them.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "premis", "preservation metadata", "technical environments", "software preservation", "hardware preservation", "representation information", "representation information network", "conceptual modelling"]

links:
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title: Conversion and Emulation-aware Dependency Reasoning for Curation Services
creators: ["Yannis Tzitzikas", "Yannis Marketakis", "Yannis Kargakis"]
type: paper
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "conversion", "emulation", "modeling", "digital preservation"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/conversion-and-emulation-aware-dependency-reasoning-for-curation/

abstract:
A quite general view of the digital preservation problem and its associated tasks (e.g. intelligibility and task-performability checking, risk detection, identification of missing resources for performing a task) is to approach it from a dependency management point of view. In this paper we extend past rule-based approaches for dependency management for modeling also converters and emulators and we demonstrate how this modeling allows performing the desired reasoning and thus enables offering more advanced digital preservation services. Specifically these services can greatly reduce the human effort required for periodically checking (monitoring) whether a task on a digital object is performable.

links:
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title: Evaluating an Emulation Environment: Automation and Significant Key Characteristics
creators: ["Mark Guttenbrunner", "Andreas Rauber"]
type: paper
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "emulation", "digital preservation"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/evaluating-an-emulation-environment-automation-and-significant-k/

abstract:
Evaluating digital preservation actions performed on digital objects is essential, both during the planning as well as quality assurance and re-use phases to determine their authenticity. While migration results are usually validated by comparing object properties from before and after the migration, the task is more complex: as any digital object becomes an information object only in a rendering environment, the evaluation has to happen at a rendering level for validating its faithfulness. This is basically identical to the situation of evaluating the performance in an emulation setting.
In this paper we show how previous conceptual work is applied to an existing emulator, allowing us to feed automated input to the emulation environment as well as extract properties about the rendering process. We identify various significant key characteristics that help us evaluate deviations in the emulator’s internal timing compared to the original system and how we can find out if the emulation environment works deterministically, an important characteristic that is necessary for successful comparison of renderings. We show the results of rendering different digital objects in the emulator and interpret them for the rendering process, showing weaknesses in the evaluated emulator and provide possible corrections as well as generalized recommendations for developing emulators for digital preservation.

links:
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title: Future-Proof Preservation of Complex Software Environments
creators: ["Klaus Rechert", "Dirk von Suchodoletz", "Isgandar Valizada"]
type: paper
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "emulation", "digital preservation"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/future-proof-preservation-of-complex-software-environments/

abstract:
Emulation evolves into a mature digital preservation strategy providing authentic access to a wide range of digital objects using their original creation environments. In contrast to migration, an emulation approach requires a number of additional components, namely the full software-stack required to render a digital object, and its configuration. Thus, independent of which emulator is chosen, contextual information of the original computer environment is always needed.
To overcome this knowledge gap, a formalization process is required to identify the actual building blocks for an authentic rendering environment of a given object. While the information gathering workflow relies heavily on user knowledge and manual interaction during ingest, the workflow is coupled with a feedback loop so that both a complete emulation environment and preservation of desired properties for later access are ensured.

links:
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title: ESA USE CASES IN LONG TERM DATA PRESERVATION
creators: ["Mirko Albani", "Rosemarie Leone", "Calogera Tona"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/esa-use-cases-in-long-term-data-preservation/

abstract:
Long Term Data Preservation (LTDP) aims at ensuring the intelligibility of digital information at any given time in the near or distant future. LTDP has to address changes that inevitably occur in hardware or software, in the organisational or legal environment, as well as in the designated community, i.e. the people that will use the preserved information. A preservation data manages communication from the past while communicating with the future. Information generated in the past is sent into the future by the current preservation data. European Space Agency (ESA) has a crucial and unique role in this mission, because it maintains in its archives long time series of Earth Observation (EO) data. In order to ensure to future generations data use and accessibility of this cultural heritage is needed to define a systematic approach, accompanied by different use cases.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "long term data preservation (ltdp)", "data curation", "esa", "eo data", "preserve data set content (pdsc)"]

links:
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title: Duplicate Detection for Quality Assurance of Document Image Collections
creators: ["Reinhold Huber-Mork", "Alexander Schindler", "Sven Schlarb"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/duplicate-detection-for-quality-assurance-of-document-image-coll/

abstract:
Digital preservation workflows for image collections involving automatic and semi-automatic image acquisition and processing are prone to reduced quality. We present a method for quality assurance of scanned content based on computer vision. A visual dictionary derived from local image descriptors enables efficient perceptual image fingerprinting in order to compare scanned book pages and detect duplicated pages. A spatial verification step involving descriptor matching provides further robustness of the approach. Results for a digitized book collection of approximately 35.000 pages are presented. Duplicated pages are identified with high reliability and well in accordance with results obtained independently by human visual inspection.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital preservation", "information retrieval", "image processing"]

links:
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title: Practical Floppy Disk Recovery Study
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/practical-floppy-disk-recovery-study/
creators: ["Dirk von Suchodoletz", "Richard Schneider", "Euan Cochrance", "David Schmidt"]
type: paper
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital archeology", "floppy disks", "data recovery"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
abstract:
This paper provides a practical example of digital archeology and forensics to recover data from floppy disks originally used by CTOS, now an obsolete computer operating system. The various floppy disks were created during the period between the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s containing different types of text, data and binary files. This paper presents practical steps from two different approaches, the tools and workflows involved which can help archivists and digital preservation practitioners recover data from outdated systems and media. While the floppy disk data recovery was a full success, issues remain in filetype detection and interpretation of non-ASCII data files of unknown or unsupported types.

links:
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title: Defining Digital Curation through an Interactive, Informal Critical Delphi Approach
creators: ["Lori Podolsky Nordland", "Carolyn Hank"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/defining-digital-curation-through-an-interactive-informal-critic/

abstract:
Digital curation may be thought of as a set of strategies, technological approaches, and activities for establishing and developing trusted repositories, and ensuring long-term access to digital assets. It spans many disciplines and communities, as well as individuals seeking to maintain, preserve and add value to the ever-expanding body of digital content. This diversity has given way to ambiguity in defining digital curation, particularly in consideration of potentially synonymous terms, such as digital stewardship, preservation, and archiving. This poster will provide a forum for participants to challenge and engage in the dialogue that defines and describes digital curation.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital curation", "preservation", "archives", "definition", "consensus"]

links:
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creators: ["Martin Halbert", "Katherine Skinner", "Matt Schultz"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Preserving Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Findings of the Lifecycle Management for ETDs Project

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/preserving-electronic-theses-and-dissertations-findings-of-the-l/

abstract:
This paper conveys findings from four years of research conducted by the MetaArchive Cooperative, the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), and the University of North Texas to investigate and document how academic institutions may best ensure that the electronic theses and dissertations they acquire from students today will be available to future researchers.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "archival information packages", "data management", "digital archives", "digital curation", "digital libraries", "electronic theses and dissertations", "etds", "digital objects", "digital preservation", "distributed digital preservation", "ingest", "interoperability", "micro-services", "repository software", "submission information packages"]

links:
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title: bwFLA – Practical Approach to Functional Access Strategies
creators: ["Klaus Rechert", "Dirk von Suchodoletz", "Isgandar Valizada", "Louise Fauduet"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/bwfla-practical-approach-to-functional-access-strategies/

abstract:
The goal of the bwFLA project is the implementation and development of services and technologies to address Baden-Wurttemberg state and higher education institutes’ libraries’ and archives’ challenges in long-term digital object access. The project aims on enabling diverse user groups to pre- pare non-standard artifacts like digital art, scientific applications or GIS data for preservation. The project’s main goal is to build-on ongoing digital preservation research in international and national projects to integrate workflows for emulation-based access strategies.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital preservation", "non-standard artifacts", "digital objects", "workflows", "emulation"]

links:
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title: Creating Visualizations of Digital Collections with Viewshare
creators: ["Trevor Owens", "Abigail Potter"]
type: paper
keywords: ["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "access", "metadata", "visualization"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/creating-visualizations-of-digital-collections-with-viewshare/

abstract:
Viewshare is a free, Library-of-Congress-sponsored platform that empowers historians, librarians, archivists and curators to create and customize dynamic interfaces to collections of digital content. This demonstration of Viewshare will start with an example spreadsheet or data harvested via OAI-PMH to generate distinct interactive visual interfaces (including maps, timelines, and sophisticated faceted navigation), which can be copy-pasted in any webpage. The data augmentation services associated with Viewshare will also be demonstrated.

links:
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title: Training needs in digital preservation – A DigCurV Survey
creators: ["Stefen Strathmann", "Claudia Engelhardt"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2012-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2012"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2012/papers/training-needs-in-digital-preservation-a-digcurv-survey/

abstract:
In this poster, we introduce the results of a survey of the training needs in digital preservation conducted by the DigCurV project.

keywords:
["ischool", "toronto", "canada", "digital preservation", "digital curation", "training", "qualification", "survey", "questionnaire", "needs assessment", "vocational", "cultural heritage institution"]

links:
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title: Preservation of Scientific Data (in Natural Sciences)
creators: ["Thomas Severiens"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/preservation-of-scientific-data-in-natural-sciences/

abstract:
Preservation of "Primary Data" is of very high relevance in science. While letter publications become redundant by review publications over the years, and while review articles are remembered by many readers, primary data often can not be reconstructed. Primary data as there is e.g. weather data, accelerator data, space observation data, build the backbone of scientific research and publication activities. It is essentially required to reconstruct experiments, to recalculate final results in scientific publications and to check their correctness. The existence of primary data makes the difference between fiction and science. Primary data often is open for re-usage in other research activities, e.g. measurement of the radius of the proton at CERN. This talk will offer an overview of the relevance of primary data in natural science, of its preservation requirements, and how it is preserved today.

links:
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title: Preservation Strategies of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
creators: ["Hilde van Wijngaarden"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/preservation-strategies-of-the-koninklijke-bibliotheek/

abstract:
As a deposit library, the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) was faced with having to store digital publications already more than ten years ago. As the number of digital publications was growing, the KB decided to make digital preservation one of its main concerns. This resulted, among other things, in an operational digital archive (the e-Depot) and projects to develop preservation functionality. In this presentation two projects will be explained in more detail: the Preservation Manager, a tool for the monitoring of technical metadata, and the Universal Virtual Computer for JPEG. This UVC is a new approach for the rendering of digital objects, without depending on current platforms or formats. Together with IBM, we developed a first working UVC, which will be demonstrated.

links:
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title: File Format Features and Significant Properties
creators: ["Andreas Aschenbrenner"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/file-format-features-and-significant-properties/

abstract:
The notion "significant properties" in digital preservation can be paraphrased as the features of digital objects that need to be preserved. The definition of significant properties at the inception of a digital preservation programme will guide an organisation in choosing the preservation method suited for their specific requirements. However, the definition of significant properties and the preservation of the object are constrained by a file format's inherent features. The presentation introduces the notions 'file format features' and 'significant properties', discusses their relation and discusses their role in a successful long-term preservation effort.

links:
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title: Preservation of image documents: Theory & Case Study
creators: ["René van Horik"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/preservation-of-image-documents-theory-case-study/

links:
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title: General Introduction: Technological Issues
creators: ["Reinhard Altenhöner"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
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https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/general-introduction-technological-issues/

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title: Digital Preservation, e-journals and e-prints
creators: ["Neil Beagrie"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
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url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/digital-preservation-e-journals-and-e-prints/

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title: Different approaches to digital preservation
creators: ["Hilde van Wijngaarden"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
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https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/different-approaches-to-digital-preservation/

abstract:
Digital preservation consists of three subjects: safe storage, preservation metadata and permanent access. First we have to make sure digital objects are stored on secure storage media and are maintained by proper procedures for safety, back-up and refreshment. In order to be able to retrieve the stored objects, we have to register information on the objects in preservation metadata and work on the technical possibilities to render the stored objects, now and in the future. To work on permanent access solutions, a number of questions have to be answered about what it is we want to view and use in the future. Different strategies can be deployed, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. In this presentation these strategies will be explained and linked to their intended use and their possibilities, including examples. Apart from existing strategies, new procedures and especially tools will have to be tested and developed to keep our digital archives accessible. Research and development on permanent access requires continuous effort and internation co-operation.

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title: Preservation of e-journals at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
creators: ["Hilde van Wijngaarden"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/preservation-of-e-journals-at-the-koninklijke-bibliotheek/

abstract:
The digital archiving system of the KB, the e-Depot, stores e-journals of major international publishers automatically and for the long-term. This amounts to a total of over 2 million articles stored today and this is just after the first year that the system has been operational. Two major publishers, Elsevier and Kluwer, deposit their world production of e-journals at the e-Depot. And since they publish mainly in the field of Science, Technology and Medicine, the e-Depot now holds about 20% of everything that is recently published in this field, world-wide. This presentation will explain what lead to this result, how the e-Depot works, what we have agreed with the publishers and what we plan for the future. We call the e-Depot a 'safe place', working towards international co-operation (safe place strategy) and towards certification as a so-called trusted depository.

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title: Metadata for preservation
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/metadata-for-preservation/
creators: ["Michael Day"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
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abstract:
In recent years there have been a range of metadata specifications and frameworks developed to support digital preservation activities. These range from formats that are intended to be specific to certain types of resources to generic frameworks based on the information model defined by the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). Those specifications that exist have been developed from the perspective of a variety of different professional domains and world-views. The presentation will attempt to define preservation metadata, introduce some of the most important schemas and standards being developed, and outline some of the problems that result from the differing perspectives that inform their development.

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title: Preservation of Scientific Data in the Humanities
creators: ["René van Horik"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
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https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/preservation-of-scientific-data-in-the-humanities/

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title: Why Digital Preservation? Needs and Challenges
creators: ["Heike Neuroth"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/why-digital-preservation-needs-and-challenges/

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title: Trusted Digital Repositories, Certification
creators: ["Reinhard Altenhöner", "Heike Neuroth"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/trusted-digital-repositories-certification/

abstract:
Electronic publishing is the usual form in the scientific communication: easy to handle, worldwide available and accessible at every time. But digital information objects are in the deep sense of the word much more fragile than traditional paper based information. They can be easily altered, damaged or become unreadable especially in the long run of time. In this situation a special deposit system is necessary, which supports procedures to preserve electronic publications (online and offline) and keeps them accessible through time. To implement such a system, specific standards, technologies, and procedures are needed.
The basic standard of a Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System – OAIS describes the situation in principal. The OAIS generic model consists of functional entities with well-defined interfaces and introduces a concept of packages to standardize and interconnect preservable content and metadata.
Within this model the building block "Archival Storage" is responsible for keeping intact the bitstream of the digital object's preservation master. It may either be the original bitstream or the result of one of several migration procedures in the archive life cycle of the digital object. Whatever strategy will be followed in the future to provide access to the digital content, it will depend on the existence of a bitstream, the integrity and authenticity of which has been kept in order over the years. An OCLC/RLG working group has done groundbreaking work: The report "Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository" has articulated a framework of attributes and responsibilities for trusted, reliable and sustainable digital repositories.
The talk focusses on report of the RLG-group and current activities in Germany to handle and standardize the requirements for trusted repositories.

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title: File format registries - a global infrastructure for local persistence
creators: ["Andreas Aschenbrenner"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/file-format-registries-a-global-infrastructure-for-local-persist/

abstract:
Cooperation has always been essential in the digital preservation community regarding knowledge exchange and collaboration in research activities. As initiatives increasingly turn to implementation, cooperation also gains practical significance. Initiatives embark on collaboratively building services that are required by various preservation systems.
This presentation addresses file format registries. The preservation community jointly calls for a register that identifies and documents file formats, to come to terms with the myriad of different file formats. Activities towards building a file format registry are emerging, as already some preservation initiatives rely on such a future service in their current approaches.

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title: nestor - Network of Expertise in long-term STORage of Digital Preservation
creators: ["Heike Neuroth"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/nestor-network-of-expertise-in-long-term-storage-of-digital-pres/

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title: PREMIS: PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies
creators: ["Hilde van Wijngaarden"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/premis-preservation-metadata-implementation-strategies/

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title: reUSE! reUSE digital master files of printed material!
creators: ["Reinhard Altenhöner"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/reuse-reuse-digital-master-files-of-printed-material/

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title: The JISC FAIR Programme
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/the-jisc-fair-programme/
creators: ["Neil Beagrie"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
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title: Project “DARE”
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/project-dare/
creators: ["René van Horik"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
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title: Persistent Identifiers
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/persistent-identifiers/
creators: ["Reinhard Altenhöner"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
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abstract:
The electronic publishing process implies in generell certain attributes: "fast, cost-saving, worldwide acessible". Seen from the author's or the user's perspective, however, those attributes are sufficient to ensure permanent access to the electronic publication? The usual experience with the Internet promises not a sufficient result: URLs don't offer a mechanism that allows internet based publications to be identified unequivocally and being traceable at anytime. One solution to that situation is being provided by Persistent Identifiers such as Uniform Resource Names (URN), whose implementation Die Deutsche Bibliothek consolidates within the scope of the project EPICUR.
An implementation in local contexts cannot provide the persistency of that addressing scheme on its own. For example, if an institution ceases the maintenance and provision of a digital collection, their references – even when applied by a persistent adressing scheme – would equally be volatile as in case of URLs. To ensure a long-term usability of a permanent addressing scheme such as URN, it is necessary tocreate an infrastructure with an institutional backup.
The talk focusses on a general description of the Persistent Identifier activities worldwide and on productive implementations. Based on the EPICUR project in Die Deutsche Bibliothek, a prospect on continuative activities will be given.

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title: Preservation Planning, Institutional Strategies and Policies
creators: ["Thomas Severiens"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
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https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/preservation-planning-institutional-strategies-and-policies/

abstract:
Should we preserve everything or only a selection of the available information? This is the question which will be illuminated from different point of view within this talk. Institutions all around the world are developing strategies and policies for preservation. Many developments are done in parallel redundantly, some are still open. This talk will give a brief overview of the activities (in selection) and the solutions they developed or the state of discussion process. This overview is part of the project "nestor" http://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/index.php?newlang=eng supported by the Germany Ministry for Education and Research.

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title: The Digital Preservation Coalition: A Brief Introduction
creators: ["Neil Beagrie"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
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url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/the-digital-preservation-coalition-a-brief-introduction/

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title: KOPAL: KOoPerativer Aufbau eines Langzeitarchivs digitaler Informationen
creators: ["Reinhard Altenhöner"]
type: paper
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/kopal-kooperativer-aufbau-eines-langzeitarchivs-digitaler-inform/

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title: Digital Preservation: Legal Issues
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/digital-preservation-legal-issues/
creators: ["Neil Beagrie"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
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title: The UK Digital Curation Centre
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/the-uk-digital-curation-centre/
creators: ["Michael Day"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
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title: Metadata-Registries
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/metadata-registries/
creators: ["Heike Neuroth"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
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title: erpanet
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/erpanet/
creators: ["Andreas Aschenbrenner"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
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title: DELOS: Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, with a focus on the Preservation Cluster
creators: ["Andreas Rauber"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/delos-network-of-excellence-on-digital-libraries-with-a-focus-on/

abstract:
Digital Libraries (DL) have been made possible through the integration and use of a number of IC technologies, the availability of digital content on a global scale and a strong demand for users who are now online. They are destined to become essential part of the information infrastructure in the 21st century. The DELOS network intends to conduct a joint program of activities aimed at integrating and coordinating the ongoing research activities of the major European teams working in DL-related areas with the goal of developing the next generation DL technologies.
This talk will provide an overview of the seven Research Clusters within the DELOS Network, with a specific focus on activities of the DELOS Preservation Cluster.

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title: The OAIS Reference Model: current implementations
creators: ["Michael Day"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/the-oais-reference-model-current-implementations/

abstract:
The OAIS Reference Model (ISO 14721:2003) is an important part of the current digital preservation landscape. Initially developed by the Consultative Committee on Space Data Systems, the OAIS establishes a common framework of terms and concepts, identifies the basic functions of an archival system, and provides an information model for managing digital objects and information packages. The OAIS information model has proved to be extremely influential on the development of preservation metadata schemas. While the OAIS Reference Model does NOT specify any implementation, it has informed the implementation of some preservation systems, including the National Library of the Netherlands deposit system. This presentation will provide an introduction to the OAIS Reference Model and highlight some recent implementations that have been informed by it.

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title: Preservation Strategy Proposals for Licensed Resources of CSDL
creators: ["Zhang Xiaolin", "Wan Ling"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/preservation-strategy-proposals-for-licensed-resources-of-csdl/

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title: Web Information Preservation at National Library of China
creators: ["Wang Zhigeng"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/web-information-preservation-at-national-library-of-china/

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title: The European Union: Programmes for EU-China Cooperation in ICT
creators: ["Monika Segbert"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/the-european-union-programmes-for-eu-china-cooperation-in-ict/

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title: Using Utility Analysis to Evaluate and Compare Preservation Strategies
creators: ["Andreas Rauber", "Carl Rauch"]
type: presentation
keywords: ["beijing"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2004-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2004"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2004/papers/using-utility-analysis-to-evaluate-and-compare-preservation-stra/

abstract:
Long-term preservation solutions become critical as an increasing amount of information is being digitized or directly created and thus existing only in electronic form. While different approaches, such as Emulation, Migration, or Computer Museums, are being proposed as solutions to this challenge, neither of them excels in all circumstances. Selection of the most appropriate strategy and tools becomes a non-trivial task.
In this talk we present an adapted version of Utility Analysis, which can be applied to selecting the optimal preservation solution for each individual situation. This analysis method, which is usually applied in infrastructure projects, such as highways, airports, or city district development, is here used to combine the wide range of requirements, which are to be considered in order to select a suitable preservation strategy. Additionally, we present a framework for identifying and defining the criteria influencing the choice of a particular preservation solution, such as a specific migration tool. The evaluation metric is explained theoretically and demonstrated via case-studies performed for different application domains.

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creators: ["Laura Molloy", "Kellie Snow"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
The Data Management Skills Support Initiative: Synthesising Postgraduate Training in Research Data Management

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/the-data-management-skills-support-initiative-synthesising-postg/

abstract:
In this paper, we describe the context, methods and findings of the Data Management Skills Support Initiative (‘DaMSSI’), which supported the five JISC Research Data Management Training Materials (‘RDMTrain’) projects of the JISC Managing Research Data programme (‘JISCMRD’) in developing discipline-focused postgraduate training units in research data management. The Initiative tested the effectiveness of two skills frameworks and produced a comparison and synthesis of training approaches by the RDMTrain projects. DaMSSI also assisted in the production of a number of guidance documents to raise awareness of the importance of data management in career development.

keywords:
["singapore", "training", "education", "skills", "skills frameworks", "research data management", "postgraduate", "uk", "digital curation"]

links:
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title: Managing Preservation Networks: Issues of Scale for Scientific Research Assets
creators: ["Esther Conway", "Arif Shaon", "Brian Matthews", "Simon Lambert"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "digital preservation", "scientific data", "preservation network models"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/managing-preservation-networks-issues-of-scale-for-scientific-re/

abstract:
The preservation of science data requires consideration of a wide range of factors from file formats to analysis software. Previous work has reported on the development of Preservation Network Models that capture dependencies at multiple levels and allow reasoning about preservation planning and actions. However this is only one aspect of the development of a trusted preservation environment; there is also a need for quality assurance and relation to explicit policies on data preservation. This paper presents issues of scale for scientific research assets which will be explored further on the SCAPE project.

links:
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title: Long-Term Storage Features of Optical Disks According to Recording Conditions
creators: ["Kwan-Yong Lee", "Young-Joo Kim", "Won-Ik Cho"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/long-term-storage-features-of-optical-disks-according-to-recordi/

abstract:
Optical disks are widely used in libraries and archives as digital data media due to their long-term storage stability. Though archive-grade optical disks are already available on the market, there is relative less focus on the reliable recording conditions. Commercial DVD-R media were recorded at various recording speeds with the maximum speed of 16X, and tested at acceleration aging conditions. Through the evaluation of longterm storage features by the data stability test, a higher recording speed over 12x resulted in better long-term storage stability.

keywords:
["singapore", "long-term data storage", "optical disks", "archival application", "recording condition", "data stability"]

links:
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title: Building Digital Preservation Practices, Tools and Services on Quicksand
creators: ["Bram van der Werf"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/building-digital-preservation-practices-tools-and-services-on-qu/

links:
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title: From the World Wide Web to Digital Library Stacks: Preserving the French Web Archives
creators: ["Clément Oury", "Sébastien Peyrard"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "web archives", "metadata", "characterization tools", "arc file format"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/from-the-world-wide-web-to-digital-library-stacks-preserving-the/

abstract:
The National Library of France is mandated by French law to collect and preserve the French Internet. It is now a 10-year old project with collections ranging from 1996 to the present. To ensure their long-term preservation, the choice has been made to ingest these web archives into the institution’s existing digital preservation repository, SPAR (Scalable Preservation and Archiving Repository). There were numerous implementation challenges, on the modeling as well as the technical sides, which the library met with solutions drawn from international collaboration and widely adopted standards, whenever possible.
– Web archive-specific formats (W/ARC files) lacked validation and characterization tools, which led to the development of a Jhove2 module for the ARC format.
– The heterogeneity of BnF’s web archives in terms of formats, production workflows and tools, was managed by aligning all of them on a single model, the current production workflow using NetarchiveSuite.
– The specificities of web archives were matched to the PREMIS data model and dictionary and SPAR’s global METS profile.
– Finally, the need to express technical information about ARC files in a concise, manageable fashion led us to define a format-specific metadata scheme for container files, containerMD, which will be released to the preservation community (on BnF’s website).
All this development work means new services for digital curators in general and preservation experts in particular. They will be able to know their collection better, to check its comprehensiveness, and, with that deeper understanding, to investigate new preservation strategies. Allowing differentiated service level agreements for specific sets of documents, with richer metadata extraction, better quality insurance and differentiated preservation strategies, will be the logical next step of the web archives long-term preservation project.

links:
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title: People Mashing: Agile Digital Preservation and the AQuA Project
creators: ["Paul Wheatley", "Rebecca McGuinness", "Andrew N. Jackson", "Jodie Double", "Bo Middleton"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/people-mashing-agile-digital-preservation-and-the-aqua-project/

abstract:
Manual quality assurance (QA) of digitised content is typically fallible and can result in collections that are marred by a variety of quality and access issues. Poor storage conditions, technology obsolescence and other unforeseen problems can also leave digital objects in an unusable state. Detecting, identifying and ultimately fixing these issues typically requires costly and time consuming manual processes. An inadequate understanding of potential tools and their application creates a barrier to the automation and embedding of preservation processes for many collection owners. The JISC funded [1] Automating Quality Assurance Project (AQuA) [2] applied a variety of existing tools in order to automatically detect quality and preservation issues in digital collections and work to bridge the divide between technical and collection management expertise. Two AQuA Mashup events brought together digital preservation practitioners, collection curators and technical experts to present problematic digital collections, articulate requirements for their assessment, and then apply tools to automate the detection and identification of the content issues. By breaking down the barriers between technical and non-technical practitioners, the events enabled grass-roots digital preservation collaboration between the two communities. This paper describes the AQuA Project’s novel approach to agile preservation problem solving and discusses the incidental benefits and community building that this strategy facilitated.

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title: The Enduring Value of Social Science Research: The Use and Reuse of Primary Research Data
creators: ["Amy Pienta", "Jared Lyle", "George Alter"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "research data sharing", "scientific productivity", "digital preservation"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/the-enduring-value-of-social-science-research-the-use-and-reuse/

abstract:
The goal of this paper is to examine the extent to which social science research data are shared and assess whether sharing is associated positively with number of publications resulting from the research data. We construct a database from administrative records containing information about thousands of social science studies that have been conducted over the last 40 years. Included in the database are descriptions of social science data collections funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Using a subset of these awards, we conduct a survey of principal investigators (n=1,021). We find that very few social science data collections are preserved and disseminated by an archive or institutional repository. Informal sharing of data in the social sciences is much more common. The main analysis examines publication metrics that can be tied to the research data collected with NSF and NIH funding – total publications, primary publications (including PI), and secondary publications (nonresearch team). Multivariate models of the count of publications suggest that data sharing, especially sharing data through an archive, is associated with many more times the publications compared to not sharing data. This finding is robust even when the models are adjusted for PI characteristics, grant award features, and institutional characteristics.

links:
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title: Recordkeeping in Temporary Command Settings
creators: ["Erik A.M. Borglund"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "knowledge management", "preservation", "police operation", "recordkeeping"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/recordkeeping-in-temporary-command-settings/

abstract:
This article is about the recordkeeping that takes place during large police operations in different command post settings, and presents the tentative results from a three-year study. The aim is to increase knowledge of the problems related to recordkeeping in this kind of environment. Two police operations have been used as data sources, one large EU ministerial meeting in Sweden, and one regional disaster training exercise. An interpretative case study approach has been applied where observation and interviews were the primary data collection techniques. One problem is that too much important information is recorded in less permanent ways, on whiteboards and on flip charts. Capture, storage, and dissemination of those temporal and analogue records are difficult, and reduce the possibility to use records from large operations as knowledge reservoirs.

links:
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title: Considerations for High Throughput Digital Preservation
creators: ["Jason Pierson", "Robert Sharpe", "James Carr", "Mark Evans"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "digital preservation", "digital archiving", "scalability", "automation"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/considerations-for-high-throughput-digital-preservation/

abstract:
In partnership with Tessella, FamilySearch is developing an automated approach to large scale digitization, ingest and longterm preservation of electronic content. The set of proposed processes and underlying architecture must support required ingest rates in excess of 20Tb a day.
Significant effort has been placed on examining the preservation architecture and processes for potential bottlenecks. Digital preservation requires computational intensive capabilities to provide functionality such as fixity checking, format identification and characterization of content. When operating at very large scale there is also a real need for a large network bandwidth and high speed storage systems.
By minimizing the need for human interaction and employing software parallelization our initial findings indicate that the primary bottleneck is not processor bound, but is directly associated with the movement of digital files into and within the application. In short the scalability problem is really a system engineering problem and not necessarily an issue for digital preservation per se.

links:
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creators: ["Janet Delve", "Antonio Ciuffreda", "Leo Konstantelos"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
TOTEM: Trusted Online Technical Environment Metadata - A Long-Term Solution for a Relational Database / RDF Ontologies

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/totem-trusted-online-technical-environment-metadata-a-long-term/

abstract:
For emulation and other preservation actions, metadata is needed to describe the technical environment (operating system, related software libraries, hardware etc.) in which a given file or item of software can be rendered. This paper delineates an enhanced entity attribute relationship model suitable as a basis for a database (relational, object-relational or object-oriented), or for a RDF ontology. This core data model covers the X86, Apple II and Commodore 64 (C64) hardware architectures, as well as games consoles. The model is currently instantiated as a MySQL database with accompanying API, plus a PHP-based browsing system. Data population, and user evaluation are also discussed. The model is extensible over the long term and is compatible with OAIS and PREMIS version 2.

links:
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title: Transformation Rules for Model Migration in Relational Database Preservation
creators: ["Arif Ur Rahman", "Cristina Ribeiro", "Gabriel David"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "database preservation", "database transformation rules"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/transformation-rules-for-model-migration-in-relational-database/

abstract:
Digital preservation is about memory and giving easy access to it. If the digital object is a relational database the requirements of normalization may make it hard to access and understand. In order to deal with this problem we have proposed the DBPreserve approach to transform a relational database to a dimensional model as part of the preservation process, making the preserved information more explicit and easier to access. The paper presents a set of transformation rules to deal with aspects of the migration process such as the identification of the fact tables corresponding to the main organizational processes and the choice of the set of relevant dimensions. The rules help to keep the traceability of the migration process and to preserve integrity and authenticity. The rules were implemented in a case study which involved a human resources information system.

links:
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title: A non-proprietary RAID replacement for long term preservation systems
creators: ["Samuel Goebert", "Alain Sarti"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/a-non-proprietary-raid-replacement-for-long-term-preservation-sy/

links:
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title: Design Decisions in Emulator Construction: A Case Study on Home Computer Software Preservation
creators: ["Mark Guttenbrunner", "Andreas Rauber"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/design-decisions-in-emulator-construction-a-case-study-on-home-c/

abstract:
Preserving software is widely recognized as a far more complex task then preserving static data. Emulation is usually the chosen preservation action to enable the execution of programs of obsolete systems. In this work we show how software extracted from obsolete media was preserved by developing an emulator. We explain the reengineering work involved and the design decisions made as well as the options for data injection into and extraction from the emulated environment.
In previous work, data and programs stored on audio tapes were extracted and the resulting audio files were transformed into digital objects. The objects retrieved were mainly programs, requiring emulation for execution. As no emulator for the original system previously exists, we here show how we implemented one. We first describe the system in more detail and explain the reengineering of the view-path for the execution of programs on the original system. We show how an existing emulator for a video game system was expanded by emulation capabilities for the view-path of the home computer and how the different options for data exchange with the host environment were implemented on different levels in the view-path. We explain how differences in input and output formats and methods influence the development of an emulator and that, depending on the original system, the transfer of data between the emulated environment and the host environment enforces implicit migration of the data to become usable.

links:
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title: Evolving Domains, Problems and Solutions for Long Term Digital Preservation
creators: ["Orit Edelstein", "Philip Taylor", "Eliot Salant", "Thomas Risse", "Ross King", "Michael Factor"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "preservation", "web archives", "software as a service", "business processes"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/evolving-domains-problems-and-solutions-for-long-term-digital-pr/

abstract:
We present, compare and contrast new directions in long term digital preservation as covered by the four large European Community funded research projects that started in 2011. The new projects widen the domain of digital preservation from the traditional purview of memory institutions preserving documents to include scenarios such as health-care, data with direct commercial value, and webbased data. Some of these projects consider not only how to preserve the programs needed to interpret the data but also how to manage and preserve the related work ows. Considerations such as risk analysis and cost estimation are built into some of them, and more than one of these efforts is examining the use of cloud-based technologies. All projects look into programmatic solutions, while emphasizing different aspects such as data collection, scalability, reconfigurability, and full lifecycle management. These new directions will make digital preservation applicable to a wider domain of users and will give better tools to assist in the process.

links:
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title: Remote Emulation for Migration Services in a Distributed Preservation Framework
creators: ["Dirk von Suchodoletz", "Isgandar Valizada", "Klaus Rechert"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/remote-emulation-for-migration-services-in-a-distributed-preserv/

abstract:
Previous studies have shown the feasibility of migration services when using emulation technology. To make rather complex setups of original digital ecosystems usable in standard mass migration workflows, a separation of the systems running and their interfaces is required. Here remote emulation can become a crucial building block of future distributed preservation workflows and access systems.
In this paper we develop the requirements and a component model for migration-by-emulation services in a distributed environment based on division of labour. We suggest a modular system which offers interfaces to be accessed by standard preservation frameworks. It provides Web services allow access to original system environments via emulation engines with additional methods for automated interaction. The proposed migration units support versatile migration services and offer a wide range of file conversions based on a digital artifacts' original applications. The component-based architecture allows the distribution of system components among specialized memory institutions.

keywords:
["singapore", "digital preservation", "emulation", "migration", "workflow", "automation", "original environments", "system design"]

links:
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title: Using Automated Dependency Analysis To Generate Representation Information
creators: ["Andrew N. Jackson"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/using-automated-dependency-analysis-to-generate-representation-i/

abstract:
To preserve access to digital content, we must preserve the representation information that captures the intended interpretation of the data. In particular, we must be able to capture performance dependency requirements, i.e. to identify the other resources that are required in order for the intended interpretation to be constructed successfully. Critically, we must identify the digital objects that are only referenced in the source data, but are embedded in the performance, such as fonts. This paper describes a new technique for analysing the dynamic dependencies of digital media, focussing on analysing the process that underlies the performance, rather than parsing and deconstructing the source data. This allows the results of format-specific characterisation tools to be verified independently, and facilitates the generation of representation information for any digital media format, even when no suitable characterisation tool exists.

links:
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title: Emulation Reading Room Prototype
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/emulation-reading-room-prototype/
creators: ["Sebastian Schmelzer", "Klaus Rechert", "Dirk von Suchodoletz"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
abstract:
The electronic collections of today's libraries, museums and archives are growing and increasingly have a more relevant role in the holdings. Memory institutions must address users' need to access a widening range of digital artefacts. Often the formats of those artefacts are outdated and they cannot be run or rendered on today's systems any longer. This is where emulation can provide the required digital environments suitable for a given object type. Practical research is being done at Freiburg University for the Open Planets Foundation on how to integrate different emulators for a number of original environments into a single graphical desktop. In this case study, options for future reading room systems like stateless Linux workstations are evaluated and prototypical implementations are demonstrated.

links:
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title: Corporate Recordkeeping: New Challenges for Digital Preservation
creators: ["Gillian Oliver", "Fiorella Foscarini"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "ms sharepoint", "edrms", "content type", "genre theory"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/corporate-recordkeeping-new-challenges-for-digital-preservation/

abstract:
In this paper, we describe an innovative approach to the challenges associated with managing corporate records in the digital environment. Issues and problems with the use of EDRMS are well documented but alternatives are not yet mature enough for workplace implementation. The recordkeeping functionality of Microsoft SharePoint is disputed by practitioners, but this enterprise content management system appears to be emerging as a default solution to manage records. Applying genre theory in the configuration of SharePoint will assist records managers in negotiating shared understanding with their information technology colleagues which is essential in order to achieve digital preservation objectives.

links:
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title: An Open-Source System for Automatic Policy-Based Collaborative Archival Replication
creators: ["Thu-Mai Christian", "Micah Altman", "Nancy McGovern", "Jonathan Crabtree"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "audit", "open-source", "policy", "lockss", "trac", "preservation", "archive"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/an-open-source-system-for-automatic-policy-based-collaborative-a/

abstract:
In this poster, we provide an overview of the SafeArchive system and describe how a curator can use the tools to generate an archival policy schema and monitor compliance. Also, the poster details the technical implementation of the SafeArchive system including the policy schema, how information used in the auditing process is obtained from a set of LOCKSS peers without modifying the LOCKSS trust model or configuration, and the organization of SafeArchive software components.

links:
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title: Demo: Migration-by-Emulation
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/demo-migration-by-emulation/
creators: ["Isgandar Valizada", "Dirk von Suchodoletz", "Klaus Rechert"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
abstract:
The availability of migration tools for older formats is often limited. Thus we suggest a different approach: using the original applications to access the object and transfer the latter into formats which can be accessed in today's environments. The appropriate environment for the digital artefacts could be provided through emulation. With the reproduction of the original environment, a large and diverse set of migration input/output paths becomes available. Working for the Open Planets Project the authors the authors created remotely accessible Web services integrated into the PLANETS testbed. These services demonstrate preservation workflows using migration together with the emulation of original environments.

links:
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title: Meet RODA, a Full-Fledged Digital Repository for Long-Term Preservation
creators: ["Rui Castro", "Miguel Ferreira", "Luís Faria"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/meet-roda-a-full-fledged-digital-repository-for-long-term-preser/

abstract:
RODA is an open-source full-fledged digital preservation repository capable of ingesting, managing and providing continuous access to various types of digital objects, namely textdocuments, raster images, relational databases, video and audio.
It is supported by open-source technologies and makes use of existing standards such as the OAIS [1], METS [2], EAD [3] and PREMIS [4].

keywords:
["singapore", "digital preservation", "authenticity", "digital archive", "digital objects", "open-source", "digital repository"]

links:
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title: Preserving Change: Observations on Weblog Preservation
creators: ["Yunhyong Kim", "Seamus Ross"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/preserving-change-observations-on-weblog-preservation/

abstract:
In this article, we revisit concepts introduced within the digital preservation literature, such as Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model, and Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategy (PREMIS), to examine their continued applicability to the preservation of dynamic web content such as weblogs.

keywords:
["singapore", "digital preservation", "digital curation", "designated community", "authenticity", "intellectual entity", "archive", "web archive", "blog", "weblog"]

links:
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title: Virtual Archiving for Public Opinion Polls
creators: ["Jonathan Crabtree"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/virtual-archiving-for-public-opinion-polls/

abstract:
The Odum Institute for Research in Social Science Data Archive at the University of North Carolina, and partners from the National Network of State Polls present progress on a two year demonstration project using the Dataverse Virtual Archiving technology [1]. The goal of the Virtual Archiving for Public Opinion Polls: A Demonstration Project aims to streamline the ingest process and increase timely submission to data archives. Bridging this gap between producers and archives will increase the overall submission rates and ultimately preserve many data sets that would otherwise be lost.
Around the world researchers and scientists collect vast amounts of data, which often are not archived after the completion of the project or task. As researchers move on to new projects, past data they have collected are seldom documented and preserved [6]. Until the tools for data curation are integrated into the research lifecycle of data, we will continue to experience this problem [2]. This project seeks to provide a solution for this problem. Although the virtual archiving technology needed to bridge the gap between the data producers and archives already exists, the availability of this tool and its value needs to be communicated to the scholarly community.
The technology we use for this demonstration can be applied to many disciplines and data types. In this demonstration, we use public opinion data producers because these data serve as a useful, readily recognized example that will be widely replicated. Public opinion survey data are the most prevalent single kind of social science data and usually what most scientists first encounter.
The Odum Institute’s relationship with the various state polling agencies and the National Network of State Polls make it an ideal candidate to propose new and innovative changes in the data life cycle of public opinion polls. This projects builds on our previous work with the Dataverse Network (DVN), developed at Harvard University. The Odum Institute has been an active partner in the DVN development and has recommended system modifications to allow for the maximum flexibility in public opinion preservation, distribution, and analysis. The DVN provides the tools necessary to implement this change. In this project, we use the DVN technology to aid data producing agencies in the ingest, curation and preservation of public opinion data, election polls and reports.
Automated ingest tools specifically designed for quantitative data are used to create metadata automatically on ingest. This is critical for two reasons. First, metadata are essential in making data accessible to the scholarly community beyond those who were involved in the data collection. Second, the creation of metadata — itself a technical field with its own set of tools and norms — is a specialty that lies beyond the expertise of most research teams. 
The project is creating customized Web interfaces or “virtual archives” for each of the participating data producers. These interfaces are created to allow the researchers to seamlessly upload their data. The data will be transparently archived, preserved and curated by an organization trained in the field of long-term preservation. Once in the Dataverse Network, the data can be discovered and accessed via the existing federated search capabilities of the DVN. We are designing new workflows and help train the participating data producers to use these new and efficient methods of data ingest.

keywords:
["singapore", "digital archives", "alliances", "federation", "data management", "social science data"]

links:
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type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Capitalizing on the State-of-the-Art in Preserving Complex Visual Digital Objects: The POCOS Project

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/capitalizing-on-the-state-of-the-art-in-preserving-complex-visua/

creators:
["Leo Konstantelos", "Drew Baker", "Clive Billenness", "Milena Dobreva", "Janet Delve", "Sonia Séfi", "Vincent Joguin", "Richard Beacham", "David Anderson"]

abstract:
Complex visual digital objects and environments present the digital preservation community with distinct challenges. Complex visual objects predominantly feature interactivity properties, timebased components and intricate interdependencies which incorporate composite, heterogeneous, and often bespoke technologies. Work recently undertaken in major EC-funded projects has highlighted that continuing progress in preserving complex digital materials is achievable through engagement with relevant communities and amalgamation of research results and emerging good practices. The JISC-funded project Preservation of Complex Objects Symposia (POCOS) addresses these issues by creating a template for leading researchers and practitioners to present their findings and set out the future directives in this field.
To this end, POCOS will deliver a series of three symposia focusing on three respective areas: Simulations and Visualizations, Software-based Art and Gaming Environments and Virtual Worlds. POCOS aims to promote broader appreciation of the state-of-the art in preserving complex objects, provide input to collections management and create fertile ground for future collaborations between academia and industry.

keywords:
["singapore", "complex visual objects", "digital preservation", "software art", "simulations and visualizations", "gaming environments"]

links:
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title: UPData - A Data Curation Experiment at U.Porto using DSpace
creators: ["João Rocha da Silva", "João Correia Lopes", "Cristina Ribeiro"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/updata-a-data-curation-experiment-at-u-porto-using-dspace/

abstract:
UPData is a scientific data curation experiment currently under development at University of Porto which aims to determine the main digital preservation needs of several research groups at the university. In the course of the experiment, eight datasets have been collected from diverse scientific domains. After conducting several interviews with researchers working at U.Porto, we have concluded that from their point of view, exible data access is the most valued capability when analysing a preservation solution and that offering such access it is the best way to involve them in the preservation workflow. We propose an extension to the DSpace repository platform to complement it with data curation capabilities. In the proposed solution, the system ingests Excel spreadsheets containing scientific data and translates them into XML documents which can then be queried via automatically generated XQuery statements. Researchers use a search webpage designed for displaying deposited data and applying various filters to it, retrieving the parts they need without having to scan each file. The collected datasets will be used as test cases for data deposit, and also to evaluate the effort required by the curation procedure.

keywords:
["singapore", "scientific data", "preservation", "repository", "dspace extensions", "digital curation"]

links:
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creators: ["Leslie Johnston"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
We are all Archivists: Encouraging Personal Digital Archiving and Citizen Archiving on a Community Scale

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/we-are-all-archivists-encouraging-personal-digital-archiving-and/

abstract:
The more we interact online and manage digital lives, the more we build a born-digital record of our personal contexts and interests. There is a clear mandate that libraries, archives and museums must assume responsibility for educating the public about strategies for personal digital archiving and personal curation, and for exploring new approaches to processing, preservation, and access. Personal digital items initially have value to the individuals who generated them, but once those items are transferred to a collecting institution they will have a collective value to society. We also have a less well-established mandate to work with those citizen archivists who are taking the initiative to save large collections of digital ephemera and the at-risk output of underserved communities. Large amounts or small, all digital materials have the potential to be vital to cultural history studies in the future.

keywords:
["singapore", "personal digital archiving", "citizen archiving", "web archiving", "digital preservation"]

links:
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creators: ["Leo Konstantelos", "Seamus Ross", "Perla Innocenti"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "digital preservation", "software validation", "evaluation", "shaman"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
How Clean is Your Software? The Role of Software Validation in Digital Preservation Research Projects

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/how-clean-is-your-software-the-role-of-software-validation-in-di/

abstract:
The emphasis during the last three EC Framework Programs on Digital Preservation (DP) has enhanced our understanding of the boundaries of the problem, produced new methods, and supported the construction of preservation tools. In the case of methods and tools, measuring their suitability has emerged as a focus of research. What evidence does the DP community have that the digital preservation tools perform the functions they are supposed to and that they align with original specifications? This paper summarizes the efforts of the Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg (SHAMAN) project to create and implement software validation as a means to gauge the fitness-for-purpose of software outputs. The paper concludes by demonstrating the applicability of the validation approach to preservation projects in general.

links:
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title: Towards the Preservation of Scientific Workflows
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/towards-the-preservation-of-scientific-workflows/

creators:
["David De Roure", "Carole Goble", "Graham Klyne", "Marco Roos", "Kristina Hettne", "José Enrique Ruiz", "Raúl Palma", "José Manuel Gómez-Pérez", "Paolo Missier", "Khalid Belhajjame"]

abstract:
Some of the shared digital artefacts of digital research are executable in the sense that they describe an automated process which generates results. One example is the computational scientific workflow which is used to conduct automated data analysis, predictions and validations. We describe preservation challenges of scientific workflows, and suggest a framework to discuss the reproducibility of workflow results. We describe curation techniques that can be used to avoid the `workflow decay' that occurs when steps of the workflow are vulnerable to external change. Our approach makes extensive use of provenance information and also considers aggregate structures called Research Objects as a means for promoting workflow preservation.

links:
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creators: ["Achim Osswald", "Stefan Strathmann", "Heike Neuroth"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Curation and Preservation of Research Data in Germany: A survey across different academic disciplines

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/curation-and-preservation-of-research-data-in-germany-a-survey-a/

abstract:
This paper gives an overview of the design and purpose of a survey on the curation of research data in Germany. Eleven disciplines including, among others, the humanities, social sciences, and medicine are addressed. Issues and preliminary findings are summarized. At iPRES2011 findings of this survey will be presented to an international audience for the first time.

keywords:
["singapore", "digital curation of research data", "metadata", "cooperative structures", "research archives", "cost and funding", "training", "perspectives and visions", "scientific communities", "survey", "germany"]

links:
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title: A Braille Conversion Service Using GPU and Human Interaction by Computer Vision
creators: ["Roman Graf", "Reinhold Huber-Mörk"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/a-braille-conversion-service-using-gpu-and-human-interaction-by/

abstract:
Scalable systems and services for preserving digital content became important technologies with increasing volumes of digitized data. This paper presents a new Braille converter service that is a sample implementation of scalable service for preserving digital content. The converter service facilitates complex conversion problems regarding Braille code. Braille code is a method which allows visually impaired people to read and write tactile text. Using a GPU with the CUDA architecture allows the creation of a parallel processing service with enhanced scalability. The Braille converter is a web service that provides automatic conversion from the older BRF to the newer PEF Braille format. This service can manage a large number of objects. Speedups on the order of magnitude of 5000 to 6900 (depending on the size of the object) were achieved using a GPU (GTX460 graphics card) with respect to a CPU implementation. An extension involving an image processing system is used for human interaction. Optical pattern recognition allows Braille code creation using Braille patterns. No special input device and skills are needed, only familiarity with Braille code is required.

keywords:
["singapore", "digital preservation", "cuda", "performance measurement", "information retrieval", "image processing", "haptic i/o"]

links:
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title: Developing Virtual CD-ROM Collections: The Voyager Company Publications
creators: ["Geoffrey Brown"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "emulation", "digital preservation", "voyager company"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/developing-virtual-cd-rom-collections-the-voyager-company-public/

abstract:
Over the past 20 years, many thousands of CD-ROM titles were published; many of these have lasting cultural significance, yet present a difficult challenge for libraries due to obsolescence of the supporting software and hardware, and the consequent decline in the technical knowledge required to support them. The current trend appears to be one of abandonment – for example, the Indiana University Libraries no longer maintain machines capable of accessing early CD-ROM titles.
In previous work we proposed an access model based upon networked “virtual collections” of CD-ROMs which can enable consortia of libraries to pool the technical expertise necessary to provide continued access to such materials for a geographically sparse base of patrons who may have limited technical knowledge.
In this paper we extend this idea to CD-ROMs designed to operate on “classic” Macintosh systems with an extensive case study – the catalog of the Voyager Company publications which was the first major innovator in interactive CDROMs. The work described includes emulator extensions to support obsolete CD formats and to enable networked access to the virtual collection.

links:
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title: Re-awakening the Philips Videopac: From an old tape to a vintage feeling on a modern screen
creators: ["Mark Guttenbrunner", "Andreas Rauber"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/re-awakening-the-philips-videopac-from-an-old-tape-to-a-vintage/

abstract:
Preserving data for a specific system usually depends on the system in question. Different strategies for different file types are necessary to preserve all data for a system. In this demonstration we present tools developed for preserving data for a home computer system from 1984. We present how a tool we developed can be used to retrieve data stored on audio tapes and how this data is migrated to non-obsolete formats. We also present how the data is migrated on a bit-stream level only and can then be used in an emulated environment using a recently developed emulator for the system's hardware. We further show the features of the emulator that allow its proper usage for digital preservation purposes. The purpose of the demo is to demonstrate different types of digital objects for a system, the information layers of these digital objects and how the proper preservation strategy is chosen. Preserving static digital objects and understanding the difference to preserve dynamic and interactive digital objects like software is a key preparation for the preservation of distributed software as in Software as a Service (SaaS) and even whole business processes.

links:
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title: Simulating the Effect of Preservation Actions on Repository Evolution
creators: ["Christian Weihs", "Andreas Rauber"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/simulating-the-effect-of-preservation-actions-on-repository-evol/

abstract:
One of the most important challenges in planning and maintaining a digital repository is to predict the needed resources on a long term basis, especially storage size and processing power. The main problem emerges from the need to migrate the data at certain times to newer file types, which takes time and alters the needed storage space, potentially branching into several migration paths for individual objects. Understanding the effect of different policy decisions, such as when to migrate or whether to stay within a format family or branching into several format families turns into a complex task, specifically when considering non-trivial ingest structures and assumptions on format evaluations. In this paper we present ReproSim, a framework that simulates the evolution of a digital repository and helps predicting these factors. We demonstrate the complexity and power of simulation to assist in preservation decisions in a set of scenarios involving different ingest and preservation planning profiles.

links:
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title: Emulation as a Business Solution: the Emulation Framework
creators: ["Bram Lohman", "Jeffrey van der Hoeven", "David Michel", "Bart Kiers"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/emulation-as-a-business-solution-the-emulation-framework/

abstract:
Emulation is often considered a technically very complex subject. The association with complexity has long prevented it from being considered in an end-to-end business solution for long-term preservation and access to digital collections.
The Emulation Framework solves this problem by automating the steps required to render an unknown digital object in its original environment: characterising the object to determine its type; determining the environment required to render that type of object; setting up the required software and emulators providing the hardware; and configuring the environment to properly render the digital object. Automating these steps allows a novice user to easily render a digital object in an environment for accessing it in its original form.
Each of the four steps of the emulation workflow are described in detail, providing a simple tool for managing a complex decision making process.

keywords:
["singapore", "emulation", "framework", "digital preservation", "workflow", "business solution", "keep", "characterisation", "technical environment", "viewpath", "software"]

links:
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title: 8th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects
abstract: 8th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects, November 1 – 4, 2011, Singapore
type: proceedings
keywords: ["singapore", "digital preservation"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/8th-international-conference-on-preservation-of-digital-objects/

creators:
["José Borbinha", "Raju Buddharaju", "Christopher Khoo", "Shigeo Sugimoto", "Schubert Foo", "Adam Jatowt"]

links:
{"citation_public_url": "https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:294293", "citation_pdf_url": "https://services.phaidra.univie.ac.at/api/object/o:294293/download"}


type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "preservation", "archive", "metadata", "inspire", "iso 19115", "geographical data"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Long-Term Sustainability of Spatial Data Infrastructures: A Metadata Framework and Principles of Geo-Archiving

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/long-term-sustainability-of-spatial-data-infrastructures-a-metad/

creators:
["Arif Shaon", "Göran Samuelsson", "Marguérite Bos", "Michael Kirstein", "Andrew Woolf", "Paul Mason", "Kai Naumann", "Urs Gerber", "Carsten Rönsdorf"]

abstract:
With growing concerns about environmental problems, and an exponential increase in computing capabilities over the last decade, the geospatial community has been producing increasingly voluminous and diverse geographical datasets. Long-term preservation of these geographical data exposed through uniform and interoperable Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) is not typically addressed, but highly important for meeting legislative requirements, the short and long term exploitation of archived data as well as efficiency savings in managing superseded datasets. In this paper, we attempt to set out the path and describe what needs to be done now to future-proof the investment government agencies around the world have made in digital geographic data. We take the INSPIRE SDI as an exemplar to investigate the requirements for ensuring sustained access to geographical data from the perspective of a preservation-aware and INSPIRE-conformant SDI. We also outline a number of principles for the long term retention and preservation of European digital geographic information defined by the EuroSDR Geographic Data Archiving working group. In addition, we present a preservation profile of the ISO 19115 metadata standard to enable recording and exposing important preservation related information about geographical data through large-scale SDIs like INSPIRE.

links:
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creators: ["Dirk von Suchodoletz", "Euan Cochrane"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Replicating Installed Application and Information Environments onto Emulated or Virtualized Hardware

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/replicating-installed-application-and-information-environments-o/

abstract:
Digital objects are often more complex than their common perception as individual files or small sets of files. Standard digital preservation methods can lose important parts of digital objects, or the context of digital objects. To deal with the different types of complex digital objects, and to cope with their special requirements, we propose applying emulation from a different perspective in order to preserve the whole original environment of single digital objects or groups of digital objects. Many of today's preservation scenarios would benefit from a change in our understanding of digital objects. Our understanding should be shifted up from the single digital files or small groups of files as they are commonly conceived of, to full computer systems. When this shift in perspective is undertaken two important outcomes result: 1. the subject of preservation includes a much richer level of context and 2. the tools available for preserving them are constricted. In this paper we describe a workflow to be used for replicating installed application environments that have the x86 architecture onto emulated or virtualized hardware, we discuss the potential for automating steps in the workflow and conclude by addressing some of the possible issues with this approach.

keywords:
["singapore", "emulation", "disk imaging", "virtualization", "complex digital object", "original digital ecosystem"]

links:
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title: Impact Assessment of Decision Criteria in Preservation Planning
creators: ["Markus Hamm", "Christoph Becker"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/impact-assessment-of-decision-criteria-in-preservation-planning/

abstract:
Significant progress has been made in clarifying the decision factors to consider when choosing preservation actions and the directives governing their deployment. The Planets preservation planning approach and the tool Plato have received considerable takeup and produce a growing body of knowledge on preservation decisions. However, experience sharing is currently complicated by the inherent lack of semantics in criteria specification and a lack of tool support. Furthermore, the impact of decision criteria and criteria sets on the overall planning decision is often hard to judge, and it is unclear what effect a change in the objective evidence underlying an evaluation would have on the final decisions. This article presents a quantitative approach and tool to support the systematic assessment of criteria and their impact in preservation planning. We discuss the reconciliation of different quality models and present an analysis tool integrated with the planning tool Plato. We further apply our analysis method to a body of real-world case study material and discuss the results. The outcomes provide directions to optimise and automate decision-making, watch, and policy definitions at large scales, and to lower entry barriers by focussing on those aspects that have the strongest impact.

keywords:
["singapore", "digital preservation", "decision making", "multiple criteria decision analysis", "preservation planning", "utility analysis"]

links:
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title: Risk Assessment in Digital Preservation of e-Science Data and Processes
creators: ["Sara Canteiro", "José Barateiro"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "risk management", "risk assessment", "digital preservation", "e- science"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/risk-assessment-in-digital-preservation-of-e-science-data-and-pr/

abstract:
Risk is a constant in every area and at all levels of any organization, whether in a general context or in a specific activity, project or function. Risk Management comprises a set of coordinated activities to direct and control an organization with regard to risk. Risk Assessment is considered the most important phase of Risk Management, which consists in identifying, analyzing and evaluating risks. Digital preservation’s main concern is to keep information accessible and understandable over a long period of time, through means of digital objects; therefore, it is an area that needs a thorough Risk Management and, especially, a thorough Risk Assessment. In fact, the digital preservation process can be seen as Risk Management activities to protect digital information from inherent threats and vulnerabilities. The digital preservation problem can be even more complex in the context of e-Science, which is progressively being considered as a reference method for experimental scientific discovery, and whose data and processes need to be handled and preserved. As such, this paper analyzes the applicability of Risk Assessment techniques, in the context of digital preservation and, more concretely, in the preservation of e-Science data and processes, in order to develop a Risk Assessment method that can be applied while managing the life-cycle of digital information.

links:
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title: Cost Aspects of Ingest and Normalization
creators: ["Ulla Bøgvad Kejser", "Alex Thirifays", "Anders Bo Nielsen"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/cost-aspects-of-ingest-and-normalization/

abstract:
The Danish National Archives, and The Royal Library and the State and University Library are in the process of developing a cost model for digital preservation: Each of the functional entities of the OAIS Reference Model are broken down into measurable, cost-critical activities, and formula are being tailored for each of these in order to create a generic tool for estimating the short and long-term costs of digital preservation. This paper presents an introduction to the subject of the costs of digital preservation and describes the method used to develop the Danish Cost Model for Digital Preservation (CMDP). It then describes how the OAIS functional entity, Ingest, has been included in the model. For institutions basing their digital preservation strategy on migration, a major cost pertaining to Ingest is normalization, a digital migration from production to preservation format and structure, which is often quite complex in comparison to the subsequent migrations within the archive. The paper accounts for three aspects of migrations, which are decisive for the costs: the required migration quality, when in the lifecycle the first migration takes place, and how often subsequent migrations are executed. Lastly – with view to increasing the model’s precision – existing cost data from submission projects have been used to test the CMDP and the results of this test are described.

keywords:
["singapore", "activity based costing", "cost model", "ingest", "migration", "normalization", "oais reference model", "and preservation"]

links:
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title: Using Grid Federations for Digital Preservation
creators: ["Gonçalo Antunes", "Helder Pina"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "data grids", "digital preservation", "redundancy", "federations", "replication"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/using-grid-federations-for-digital-preservation/

abstract:
Digital preservation aims at guaranteeing that data or digital objects remain authentic and accessible to users over a long period of time, maintaining their value. Several communities, like biology, medicine, engineering or physics, manage large amounts of scientific information, including large datasets of structured data that matters to preserve, so that it can be used in future research. To achieve long-term digital preservation, it is required to store digital objects  reliably, preventing data loss. The data redundancy strategy is required to be able to successfully preserve data. Many of the characteristics required to implement, manage and evolve a preservation environment are already present in existing data grid systems, such as replication and the possibility to federate with other grids in order to share resources. We propose the customization of a data grid platform in order to be able to take advantage of its replication and federation features. In that way, scenarios where federated grids not thought for preservation purposes can be extended to preservation and their spare resources used with that mission.

links:
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title: Evaluation of a Large Migration Project
creators: ["Alex Thirifays", "Barbara Dokkedal", "Anders Bo Nielsen"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "migration", "evaluation", "database"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/evaluation-of-a-large-migration-project/

abstract:
The Danish National Archives (DNA) has ingested structurally heterogeneous public digital records since 1973. The year 2004 saw the creation of a new preservation standard into which it was decided to migrate the above mentioned archival holdings. The main objectives of this operation were to save data from technological obsolescence and to reduce the cost of both access and future migrations by streamlining the collection. The project costs approximately 30 FSCs (one ‘FSC’— Format and Structure Conversion—is the way the project’s project management measured 1 person-year, and equals 1,291 person-hours). The total sum of purchasing software, hardware and external services amounted to around 135.000 Euros.
The project migrated data from both relational and hierarchical databases (for instance ERDMS and registries), and included the digitisation of audio, video as well as paper documentation. The registries counted for example the first Civil Registration System from 1968 and the State Tax Administration's final equation from 1970. Data and documentation made up a total of about 1.7 TB, consisted of 11,187 files scattered in almost 200 different structures, and constituted more than 2,000 information packages (IPs).
The overall technical objective of the migration was defined by the aforementioned preservation standard, which required:
• Common format for data files
• Common structure of  documentation, metadata and documents
• Common format for documents (TIFF).
The project's main objectives were achieved, since all records were migrated, except the film collection. The goal of making access and future migrations easier was also reached, but a fully automatic migration of the collection is not yet entirely possible. The overall conclusion is that the migration project, which, to our knowledge, is the first of its kind, was of very high quality, both in terms of planning, execution and product. A few main conclusions are:
• Standardisation of data is a prerequisite for an economically sound digital preservation: It took about 70 times longer to migrate an older, non-standardised IP, than a newer, standardised one.
• Inadequate feasibility studies remind us that the timing in digital preservation saves money: The condition of the magnetic tapes was examined through spot checking 10 years prior to the migration project and found satisfactory, which turned out to be an erroneous, expensive conclusion.
• The technical infrastructure suffered from a number of shortcomings and late decisions, resulting in precious loss of time.

links:
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type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Towards an Integrated Media Transfer Environment: A Comparative Summary of Available Transfer Tools and Recommendations for the Development of a Toolset for the Preservation of Complex Digital Objects

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/towards-an-integrated-media-transfer-environment-a-comparative-s/

creators:
["Antonio Ciuffreda", "Vincent Joguin", "Andreas Lange", "Winfried Bergmeyer", "Dan Pinchbeck", "Leo Konstantelos", "Janet Delve", "David Anderson"]

abstract:
Efficient media transfer is a difficult challenge facing digital preservationists, without a centralized service for strategy and tools advice. Issues include creating a transfer and ingest system adaptable enough to deal with different hardware and software requirements, accessing external registries to help generate accurate and appropriate metadata, and dealing with DRM. Each of these is made more difficult when dealing with complex digital objects such as computer games or digital art. This paper presents the findings of several studies performed within the KEEP project, where numerous open-source and commercial media transfer tools have been evaluated for their effectiveness in generating image files to be integrated into an emulation-based preservation solution for complex digital objects. We provide suggestions for assembling toolsets based on the specifications of these tools, therefore providing a valuable source of information for media transfer activities.

keywords:
["singapore", "digital preservation", "image file", "transfer tools", "optical media", "magnetic media", "digital objects", "emulation"]

links:
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title: A cost model for small scale automated digital preservation archives
creators: ["Stephan Strodl", "Andreas Rauber"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "cost model", "digital preservation", "automated archiving"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/a-cost-model-for-small-scale-automated-digital-preservation-arch/

abstract:
Assessing the costs of preserving a digital data collection in the long term is a challenging task. The lifecycle costs consist of several cost factors. Some of them are difficult to identify and to break down. In this paper we present a cost model especially for small scale automated digital preservation software system. The cost model allows institutions with limited expertise in data curation to assess the costs for preserving their digital data in the long run. It provides a simple to use methodology that considers the individual characteristics of different settings. The cost model provided detailed formulas to calculate the expenses. The model supports the detailed calculation of the expenses for the near future and helps to identify the cost trend in the medium and long run (e.g. 5, 10 or 20 years) of the archive. The model monetary assesses the user’s work, the purchases of storage hardware and other costs of preserving a digital collection. In this paper the first version of the model is presented. It includes a discussion about the cost items and presents the calculation the costs. A case study shows the application of the model for a small business setting.

links:
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title: Cyberinfrastructure Supporting Evolving Data Collections
creators: ["Maria Esteva", "David Walling", "Tomislav Urban", "Christopher Jordan"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "data management", "preservation", "storage architecture", "metadata"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/cyberinfrastructure-supporting-evolving-data-collections/

abstract:
The requirements to support large-scale and complex research collections are growing at an accelerated pace. Considering the continuous evolution of the collections, their increasing sizes, the technologies supporting them, and the importance of adequate data management to long-term preservation, a team at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) developed a cyberinfrastructure to aid researchers in the creation, management, and curation of collections throughout the research lifecycle processes and beyond for access and long term preservation. Collections are maintained on a petabyte-scale data applications facility, and consulting services are available to address data curation needs. In this environment, researchers have the flexibility to build their collections without having to deal with details such as systems administration and hardware migration planning. The cyberinfrastructure facilitates the development of sustainable collections and a seamless transition through data gathering and curation, large-scale analysis, and collections dissemination and preservation.

links:
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title: The Costs and Economics of Preservation
creators: ["Neil Grindley"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "preservation", "costs", "economics", "models"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/the-costs-and-economics-of-preservation/

abstract:
Given that preservation is now a fairly well-described problem, it should, in theory, be possible to calculate with a reasonable degree of accuracy what costs are likely to accrue to an organisation that has responsibility for the long-term stewardship of digital assets. This paper will introduce and describe some of the work that has been carried out over the last 5 years to help institutions and research groups to understand both the cost and the economics of preservation, and to examine the difference between those concepts. It will also describe ongoing phases of work that are being funded in the UK by JISC that are attempting to further advance understanding in this area and where possible apply or implement previously theoretical approaches. Some indication will also be given as to where collective international effort may be of universal benefit.

links:
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title: Short Term Preservation for Software Industry
creators: ["Daniel Draws", "Frank Simon", "Daniel Simon", "Sven Euteneuer"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "software escrow", "short term digital preservation", "quality risk management"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/short-term-preservation-for-software-industry/

abstract:
In today’s literature digital preservation and its concepts are usually connoted with long term views on the lifecycle of IT systems and software. In addition to that long term view we believe that concepts available for digital preservation are also useful in short term views where the life span of systems and software is limited to a significantly shorter timeline. In this paper we discuss three different real-world use cases that benefit from DP concepts on a short term basis.

links:
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title: New Dimension in Relational Database Preservation: rising the abstraction level
creators: ["Ricardo André Pereira Freitas", "José Carlos Ramalho"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/new-dimension-in-relational-database-preservation-rising-the-abs/

abstract:
The work addressed in this paper focuses on the preservation of the conceptual model within a specific class of digital objects: Relational Databases. Previously, a neutral format was adopted to pursue the goal of platform independence and to achieve a standard format in the digital preservation of relational databases, both data and structure (logical model). Currently, in this project, we address the preservation of relational databases by focusing on the conceptual model of the database, considering the database semantics as an portant preservation "property". For the representation of this higher layer of abstraction present in databases we use an ontology based approach. At this higher abstraction level exists inherent Knowledge associated to the database semantics that we tentatively represent using "Web Ontology Language" (OWL). We developed a prototype (supported by case study) and define a mapping algorithm for the conversion between the database and OWL. The ontology approach is adopted to formalize the knowledge associated to the conceptual model of the database and also a methodology to create an abstract representation of it.

keywords:
["singapore", "digital preservation", "relational databases", "ontology", "conceptual models", "knowledge", "xml", "digital objects"]

links:
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title: Certification and Quality: A French Experience
creators: ["Marion Massol", "Lorène Béchard", "Olivier Rouchon"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/certification-and-quality-a-french-experience/

abstract:
The CINES has two main missions, among which is the long-term preservation of French scientific data. To provide this service, CINES deployed in 2006 one of the first digital repository in France named PAC (Plateforme d’Archivage du CINES – the CINES preservation system).
In order to secure this mandate in the long-term, it is absolutely crucial for CINES to prove the quality of the services it provides to the French higher education and research community. For this purpose, the CINES strategy relies on the adoption of a quality assurance approach which includes the certification of its repository.
Over the past four years, the PAC staff ran not less than five audits, internal as much as external. Various systems of reference have been used: some were at the national level (National Archives accreditation), others were at a European level (Data Seal of Approval accreditation, DRAMBORA) or even at an international level (ISO 16 363, TRAC).
From these audits, the strengths and weaknesses of the digital preservation repository have been highlighted. Action plans have been put together and executed to improve the service quality. The aim of transparency, which ranked first in the certification initiative, also reinforced the trust of the user community toward the long term digital preservation service of the CINES. Based on such an experience, the PAC staff is now willing to share its knowledge and feedback with the rest of the community, by participating in think tanks as well as standardization workgroups.

keywords:
["singapore", "certification", "audit", "quality", "trust", "long-term preservation", "archive", "risk management", "metrics and assessment"]

links:
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title: Developing a Robust Migration Workflow for Preserving and Curating Hand-held Media
creators: ["Angela Dappert", "Akiko Kimura", "Andrew Jackson"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/developing-a-robust-migration-workflow-for-preserving-and-curati/

abstract:
Many memory institutions hold large collections of hand-held
media, which can comprise hundreds of terabytes of data spread
over many thousands of data-carriers. Many of these carriers are
at risk of significant physical degradation over time, depending on
their composition. Unfortunately, handling them manually is
enormously time consuming and so a full and frequent evaluation
of their condition is extremely expensive. It is, therefore, important to develop scalable processes for stabilizing them onto backed-up online storage where they can be subject to highquality digital preservation management. This goes hand in hand with the need to establish efficient, standardized ways of recording metadata and to deal with defective data-carriers. This paper discusses processing approaches, workflows, technical set-up, software solutions and touches on staffing needs for the stabilization process. We have experimented with different disk copying robots, defined our metadata, and addressed storage issues to scale stabilization to the vast quantities of digital objects on hand-held data-carriers that need to be preserved. Working closely with the content curators, we have been able to build a robust data migration workflow and have stabilized over 16 terabytes of data in a scalable and economical manner.

keywords:
["singapore", "data-carrier stabilization", "disk-copying robot", "digital preservation", "auto loader"]

links:
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creators: ["Christoph Becker", "Ricardo Vieira", "José Barateiro", "Gonçalo Antunes"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
A Capability Model for Digital Preservation : Analyzing Concerns, Drivers, Constraints, Capabilities and Maturities

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/a-capability-model-for-digital-preservation-analyzing-concerns-d/

abstract:
The last decade has seen a number of reference models and compliance criteria for Digital Preservation (DP) emerging. However, there is a lack of coherence and integration with standards and frameworks in related fields such as Information Systems; Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC); and Organizational Engineering. DP needs to take a holistic viewpoint to acommodate the concerns of information longevity in the increasingly diverse scenarios in which DP needs to be addressed. In addition to compliance criteria, maturity models are needed to support focused assessment and targeted process improvement efforts in organizations. To enable this holistic perspective, this article discusses the question of capability maturity and presents a capability model for DP.We further demonstrate how such an architectural approach can be used as a basis to analyze the impact of criteria and metrics from the ISO Repository Audit and Certification standard on stakeholders, concerns, drivers, goals, and capabilities. The analysis presented here shall contribute to advance the understanding of cross-cutting concerns and the dicussion on maturity models in DP.

keywords:
["singapore", "oais model", "repository audit and certification", "trust", "digital preservation", "reference architecture", "standards"]

links:
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title: Users’ Trust in Trusted Digital Repository Content
creators: ["Devan Ray Donaldson"]
type: paper
keywords: ["singapore", "authenticity", "end-users", "integrity", "trust", "trusted digital repositories"]
license: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2011-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2011"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2011/papers/users-trust-in-trusted-digital-repository-content/

abstract:
Scholars who study trust in digital archives have largely focused their attention on the power of certification by third-party audit as a way to communicate trustworthiness to end-users. In doing so, they assume that the establishment of a network of trusted digital archives will create a climate of trust. But certification at the repository level also assumes the trustworthiness of digital objects within a repository; specifically that digital repository objects are authentic and reliable. This paper proposes the use of document-level seals of approval as a means of communicating to end-users about the trustworthiness of digital objects that is commensurate with specific user interaction. Implications of this proposed research stress the importance of assessing the ‘real-world’ impact of trust signals on users.

links:
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title: Legal Aspects for Digital Preservation Domain: Poster (Text)
creators: ["Barbara Kolany-Raiser", "Marzieh Bakhshandeh", "José Borbinha", "Silviya Yankova"]
type: poster
keywords: ["digital preservation", "ontology", "legal ontology", "legal taxonomies"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/legal-aspects-for-digital-preservation-domain-poster-text/

abstract:
Long term digital preservation serves the preservation of data substance and operability, so that future users are enabled to use stored data and rerun the preserved processes to gain the stored information. Furthermore, Law is becoming an essential application domain for technology developments. In case copyright protected data has to be digitally preserved, every process of a digital preservation system may violate this right, when the rightholder who has the exclusive rights did not grant the relevant rights of use. This paper shows a Legal Ontology that provides a hierarchical overview of how legal constraints and obligations (e.g. IP rights and licensing issues) could be implemented in an automated process of a DP system. In simply terms, difficulties with legal taxonomies may arises when the creators and the users don’t share the same perspective. This would be the case when the creators of the taxonomy are lawyers and the users not. Legal taxonomies for digital preservation can be represented with ontologies which are an explicit account of a shared understanding in any domain. Through the use of ontologies the communication can be improved, which, in turn, can give rise to greater reuse, sharing, transparency, and interoperability. Every DP activity must ensure the authenticity and legitimacy of the performed actions and processes. Hence to validate the correctness of our legal ontology we used a set of competency questions defined in a specific case study. The goal is to obtain a clearer taxonomical view of the necessary legal knowledge that will address the concerns of industrial use-case DP stakeholders. Therefore, we recommend using the Legal Ontology for the DP domain, in order to integrate different legal perspectives and perform reasoning and inference over legal knowledge and information.

links:
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title: A Biological Perspective on Digital Preservation: Poster (Poster)
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/a-biological-perspective-on-digital-preservation-poster-poster/

creators:
["Michael Pocklington", "Anna Eggers", "Fabio Corubolo", "Jens Ludwig", "Mark Hedges", "Sándor Darányi"]

abstract:
Successful preservation of Digital Objects (DOs) ultimately demands a solid theoretical framework. Such a framework with a high degree of generality emerges by treating DOs as containers of functional genetic information, exactly as in the genomes of organisms. We observe that functionality links survival in organisms and utility in DOs. In both cases, functional information is identifiable in principle by the consequence of its ablation. In molecular biology, genetic ablations (mutations) and environmental ablations (experimental manipulations) are used to construct interaction maps fully representing organismic activity. The equivalent of such interaction maps are dependency networks for the use of DOs within their Digital Environment (DE). In the poster we will present early work on the application of the theoretical background. It includes first results from a case-study examining a software-based art preservation scenario (SBA) developed as part of the PERICLES FP7 project.

keywords:
["digital ecosystems", "digital preservation", "niche", "interaction map", "significant environment information", "sheer curation"]

links:
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title: ROHub – A Digital Library for Sharing and Preserving Research Objects: Poster (Text)
creators: ["Raul Palma", "Cezary Mazurek", "Piotr Hołubowicz", "Oscar Corcho", "José Gómez-Pérez"]
type: poster
keywords: ["methods", "preservation", "semantic", "aggregation", "research objects"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/rohub-a-digital-library-for-sharing-and-preserving-research-obje/

abstract:
 ROHub is a digital library system, enhanced with Semantic Web technologies, which supports the storage, lifecycle management, sharing and preservation of research objects – semantic aggregations of related scientific resources, their annotations and research context. ROHub includes a set of features to help scientists throughout the research lifecycle to create and maintain high-quality research objects that can be interpreted and reproduced in the future, including quality assessment, evolution management, navigation through provenance information and monitoring features. It provides a set of RESTful APIs along with a Web Interface for users and developers. A demo installation is available at: www.rohub.org.

links:
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title: Demonstrating a Digital Curation Workflow using the BitCurator Environment
creators: ["Christopher Lee"]
type: demonstration
keywords: ["forensics", "preservation", "dfxml", "metadata", "privacy", "collections", "acquisition"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/demonstrating-a-digital-curation-workflow-using-the-bitcurator-e/

abstract:
 This demonstration will highlight several key steps in a digital curation workflow that incorporates digital forensics tools and methods. Using the open-source BitCurator environment, I will demonstrate several discrete tasks, how they can feed into each other, and considerations related to incorporating them into a larger set of curation practices within collecting institutions. A strong emphasis will be placed on features of the software that have been added or enhanced over the past year, including mounting and exporting of files from forensically packaged disk images, identification of duplicate files, generation of PREMIS metadata and initial steps toward redaction of potentially sensitive information.

links:
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title: Curation Cost Exchange platform: Demonstration (Text)
creators: ["Luis Faria", "Neil Grindley"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/curation-cost-exchange-platform-demonstration-text/

abstract:
This demonstration proposal describes the Curation Cost Exchange platform (CCEx), a web application that allows organizations to introduce, analyse, share and compare the cost of their digital curation activities. It is also a central hub for digital curation costing related information; and is a social platform that brings together organizations with the same problems and allows sharing of experiences, good practices and know-how. The CCEx is an output of the 4C Project (a Collaboration Clarify the Costs of Curation) and the relationship of the CCEx to other 4C Project outputs will also be briefly described.

keywords:
["curation", "cost", "cost analysis", "economy", "curation activities", "cost analysis", "cost comparison", "social", "cost information", "cost model"]

links:
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title: Legal Aspects for Digital Preservation Domain: Poster (Poster)
creators: ["Barbara Kolany-Raiser", "Marzieh Bakhshandeh", "José Borbinha", "Silviya Yankova"]
type: poster
keywords: ["digital preservation", "ontology", "legal ontology", "legal taxonomies"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/legal-aspects-for-digital-preservation-domain-poster-poster/

abstract:
Long term digital preservation serves the preservation of data substance and operability, so that future users are enabled to use stored data and rerun the preserved processes to gain the stored information. Furthermore, Law is becoming an essential application domain for technology developments. In case copyright protected data has to be digitally preserved, every process of a digital preservation system may violate this right, when the rightholder who has the exclusive rights did not grant the relevant rights of use. This paper shows a Legal Ontology that provides a hierarchical overview of how legal constraints and obligations (e.g. IP rights and licensing issues) could be implemented in an automated process of a DP system. In simply terms, difficulties with legal taxonomies may arises when the creators and the users don’t share the same perspective. This would be the case when the creators of the taxonomy are lawyers and the users not. Legal taxonomies for digital preservation can be represented with ontologies which are an explicit account of a shared understanding in any domain. Through the use of ontologies the communication can be improved, which, in turn, can give rise to greater reuse, sharing, transparency, and interoperability. Every DP activity must ensure the authenticity and legitimacy of the performed actions and processes. Hence to validate the correctness of our legal ontology we used a set of competency questions defined in a specific case study. The goal is to obtain a clearer taxonomical view of the necessary legal knowledge that will address the concerns of industrial use-case DP stakeholders. Therefore, we recommend using the Legal Ontology for the DP domain, in order to integrate different legal perspectives and perform reasoning and inference over legal knowledge and information.

links:
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title: A Biological Perspective on Digital Preservation: Poster (Text)
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/a-biological-perspective-on-digital-preservation-poster-text/

creators:
["Michael Pocklington", "Anna Eggers", "Fabio Corubolo", "Jens Ludwig", "Mark Hedges", "Sándor Darányi"]

abstract:
Successful preservation of Digital Objects (DOs) ultimately demands a solid theoretical framework. Such a framework with a high degree of generality emerges by treating DOs as containers of functional genetic information, exactly as in the genomes of organisms. We observe that functionality links survival in organisms and utility in DOs. In both cases, functional information is identifiable in principle by the consequence of its ablation. In molecular biology, genetic ablations (mutations) and environmental ablations (experimental manipulations) are used to construct interaction maps fully representing organismic activity. The equivalent of such interaction maps are dependency networks for the use of DOs within their Digital Environment (DE). In the poster we will present early work on the application of the theoretical background. It includes first results from a case-study examining a software-based art preservation scenario (SBA) developed as part of the PERICLES FP7 project.

keywords:
["digital ecosystems", "digital preservation", "niche", "interaction map", "significant environment information", "sheer curation"]

links:
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creators: ["Brent West", "Joanne Kaczmarek", "Jordan Phoenix"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Sustainable, justifiable, repeatable: A digital preservation strategy using metrics-based (re)appraisal: Poster (Text) 

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/sustainable-justifiable-repeatable-a-digital-preservation-strate/

abstract:
Appraisal has long been a source of intense debate in the archival community. Digital collections, affordable storage costs, and software tools now offer the opportunity to enhance appraisal strategies and move the archival appraisal discussion productively forward. In this poster, we propose an iterative, technology-assisted, metrics-based approach to appraisal as part of a digital preservation strategy. Developed in concert with a Capstone-based project to preserve email messages of enduring value at the University of Illinois, this multimodal approach integrates various traditional appraisal techniques with business performance metrics for the purpose of achieving growth that is sustainable using justifiable appraisal decisions, applying repeatable processes, and ultimately establishing measurable institutional value.

keywords:
["archives", "appraisal", "business process improvement", "capstone", "digital preservation", "metrics", "mplp", "reappraisal", "sustainability"]

links:
{"citation_public_url": "https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:378703", "citation_pdf_url": "https://services.phaidra.univie.ac.at/api/object/o:378703/download"}


creators: ["Werner Bailer", "Martin Hall-May", "Galina Veres"]
type: poster
keywords: ["process metadata", "business processes", "risk management", "risk assessment", "simulation"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Metadata Representation and Risk Management Framework for Preservation Processes in AV Archives: Poster (Text) 

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/metadata-representation-and-risk-management-framework-for-preser/

abstract:
This paper proposes an approach to assessing risks related to audiovisual (AV) preservation processes through gathering and representing metadata. We define a model for process metadata, which is interoperable with both business process models and other preservation metadata formats. A risk management framework is also suggested to help key decision makers to plan and execute preservation processes in a manner that reduces the risk of ‘damage’ to AV content. The framework uses a plan, do, check, act cycle to continuously improve the process based on risk measures and impact model. The process metadata serves as the interface between the steps in the framework and enables a unified approach to data gathering from the heterogeneous tools and devices used in an AV preservation workflow. 

links:
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creators: ["Werner Bailer", "Martin Hall-May", "Galina Veres"]
type: poster
keywords: ["process metadata", "business processes", "risk management", "risk assessment", "simulation"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Metadata Representation and Risk Management Framework for Preservation Processes in AV Archives: Poster (Poster) 

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/metadata-representation-and-risk-management-framework-for-preser/

abstract:
This paper proposes an approach to assessing risks related to audiovisual (AV) preservation processes through gathering and representing metadata. We define a model for process metadata, which is interoperable with both business process models and other preservation metadata formats. A risk management framework is also suggested to help key decision makers to plan and execute preservation processes in a manner that reduces the risk of ‘damage’ to AV content. The framework uses a plan, do, check, act cycle to continuously improve the process based on risk measures and impact model. The process metadata serves as the interface between the steps in the framework and enables a unified approach to data gathering from the heterogeneous tools and devices used in an AV preservation workflow.

links:
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title: ROHub – A Digital Library for Sharing and Preserving Research Objects: Poster (Poster)
creators: ["Raul Palma", "Cezary Mazurek", "Piotr Hołubowicz", "Oscar Corcho", "José Gómez-Pérez"]
type: poster
keywords: ["methods", "preservation", "semantic", "aggregation", "research objects"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/rohub-a-digital-library-for-sharing-and-preserving-research-obje/

abstract:
ROHub is a digital library system, enhanced with Semantic Web technologies, which supports the storage, lifecycle management, sharing and preservation of research objects – semantic aggregations of related scientific resources, their annotations and research context. ROHub includes a set of features to help scientists throughout the research lifecycle to create and maintain high-quality research objects that can be interpreted and reproduced in the future, including quality assessment, evolution management, navigation through provenance information and monitoring features. It provides a set of RESTful APIs along with a Web Interface for users and developers. A demo installation is available at: www.rohub.org.

links:
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title: Presto4U- European Technology for Digital Audiovisual Media Preservation: Poster (Poster)
creators: ["Jacqui Gupta"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/presto4u-european-technology-for-digital-audiovisual-media-prese/

abstract:
 This poster describes the actions, progress and research results of the Presto4U project, an EC funded two year coordination and support action which started in January 2013 focussing on the long term preservation of digital audiovisual media within a diverse range of Communities of Practice. The aim of the project is to identify useful results of research into digital audiovisual preservation and to raise awareness and improve the adoption of these both by technology and service providers as well as media owners. It will deliver new tools and services to connect different constituencies involved in AV Media preservation: expert users, who understand the problems and require technological solutions; researchers who can develop the fundamental knowledge; and technology providers who can commercialise research results as sustainable tools and services.

keywords:
["digital media preservation", "communities of practice", "standards", "digital preservation marketplace", "preservation tools", "best practice"]

links:
{"citation_public_url": "https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:378706", "citation_pdf_url": "https://services.phaidra.univie.ac.at/api/object/o:378706/download"}


title: Quality Assurance Tools for Digital Repositories: Poster (Text)
creators: ["Roman Graf", "Ross King"]
type: poster
keywords: ["digital preservation", "quality assurance", "image processing", "information integration"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/quality-assurance-tools-for-digital-repositories-poster-text/

abstract:
Digitization workflows for automatic acquisition of image collections are susceptible to errors and require quality assurance. This paper presents a quality assurance tool suite for long term preservation. These tools support decision making for blank pages, cropping errors, mistakenly appearing fingers in scans and accurate duplicate detection in document image collections. The important contribution of this work is a definition of the quality assurance workflow and its automatic computation. The goal is to create a reliable tool suite that is based on image processing techniques. 

links:
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title: A Persistent Identifier e-Infrastructure
creators: ["Barbara Bazzanella"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/a-persistent-identifier-e-infrastructure/

abstract:
Persistent identifiers (PIDs) have been recognized as a crucial enabling component for 2020 e-science infrastructures, having the potential of providing global keys for information access, reuse and exchange and creating a complex network of links which connect all the relevant entities in the research data landscape (e.g. digital objects to authors and datasets, authors to institutions and projects, projects to research products and fundings). The creation and full exploitation of this valuable network of connections is currently hindered by the fragmentation and lack of coordination of the persistent identifier ecosystem. Several initiatives have emerged with the aim of offering global identifier repositories for digital and non-digital entities but they are still focused on the needs of specific communities and the lack of interoperability between them is one of the major hurdles for the development of a globally connected scholarly infrastructure. The aim of this paper is to propose a Persistent Identifier e-infrastructure (based on an identifier service called Entity Name System) which provides a technical layer of interoperability which allows current identifier systems to interoperate and be coordinated across geographical, temporal, disciplinary, organization and technological boundaries. The Persistent Identifier interoperability e-infrastructure is presented as a cross-cutting core service enabling the development of advanced added-value services tailored to the specific needs of different communities and stakeholders of the e-science environment.

keywords:
["persistent identifer e-infrastructure", "interoperability", "e-science research infrastructures", "entity name system"]

links:
{"citation_public_url": "https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:378107", "citation_pdf_url": "https://services.phaidra.univie.ac.at/api/object/o:378107/download"}


type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Risk Driven Selection of Preservation Activities for Increasing Sustainability of Open Source Systems and Workflows

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/risk-driven-selection-of-preservation-activities-for-increasing/

creators:
["Tomasz Miksa", "Goncalo Antunes", "Ricardo Vieira", "Andreas Rauber", "Stephan Strodl", "Rudolf Mayer"]

abstract:
The increasing demands faced by repository systems and the growing popularity of workflow systems introduces new risks, creating new challenges to the digital preservation community. The application of risk management practices to digital preservation is a way of managing the risks associated with the use of such systems and to optimize the application of digital preservation treatments to such risks. In this paper, we present results of a case study conducted on two use cases: a repository system and an automated workflow representing a typical digital preservation quality assessment process. We used a risk assessment approach to identify risks related not only to the technical but also organizational and legal aspects. We assigned controls which decrease their impact and explained how the digital preservation related controls can also improve the current functioning of the repository system and increase reproducibility of the workflows.

links:
{"citation_public_url": "https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:378104", "citation_pdf_url": "https://services.phaidra.univie.ac.at/api/object/o:378104/download"}


creators: ["Thomas Liebetraut", "Klaus Rechert"]
type: paper
keywords: ["emulation as a service", "distributed data", "framework", "cloud computing"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Management and Orchestration of Distributed Data Sources to Simplify Access to Emulation-as-a-Service

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/management-and-orchestration-of-distributed-data-sources-to-simp/

abstract:
Emulation-as-a-Service makes emulation widely available for non-experts and thus, emulation could prove valuable as a tool in digital preservation workflows. Providing these emulation services to access preserved and archived digital objects poses further challenges to data management. Digital artifacts are usually stored and maintained in dedicated repositories and object owners want to or are required to stay in control over their intellectual property.

In this paper we propose a distributed storage and data access model that ensures that the user stays in control over his digital objects by simultaneously providing efficient data transport and support for (space) efficient management of user modifications. Finally, a mechanism for orchestration of both storage and emulation services to re-enact a single pre-defined setup is presented.

links:
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creators: ["Sam Meister"]
type: paper
keywords: ["personal digital archives", "recordkeeping", "artist records"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Addressing the personal digital archives needs of a contemporary artist: Paper - IPRES 2014 - Melbourne

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/addressing-the-personal-digital-archives-needs-of-a-contemporary/

abstract:
The study of personal digital archives is an emerging research area that crosses multiple domains including digital preservation, personal information management, archives, and recordkeeping. The practical need and desire for solutions and tools to meet the long-term preservation and access needs of individuals is increasing in relation to the ubiquitous production of digital information in contemporary society. To date, most digital preservation research has focused on the development of methods, tools, and solutions for institutional contexts such as libraries, archives, and other types of repositories. The personal context of an individual is distinct from organizational or institutional contexts, and necessitates new methods and approaches to better understand and develop solutions to meet personal digital recordkeeping and preservation needs. This paper describes a research project in progress that is focusing on this personal context by utilizing a case study approach to explore the design, development and implementation of personal digital recordkeeping system for a specific type of individual: a contemporary artist.

links:
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title: Networked Instruction for Research Data Curation Education: The CRADLE Project
creators: ["Helen Tibbo", "Thu-Mai Christian"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/networked-instruction-for-research-data-curation-education-the-c/

abstract:
In this paper, we describe a new initiative to develop a massive open online course (MOOC) for training library and information science students, library practitioners, and data producers in data curation. The Curating Research Assets and Data using Lifecycle Education (CRADLE) project exploits the affordances of MOOC technology to provide a networked learning environment that will encourage and foster the creation of research ecosystems in which CRADLE participants—library and information graduate students, library practitioners, and data producers—will have opportunities to collaborate with and learn from others engaged in data curation practice.

keywords:
["data curation", "data curation education", "data management", "massive open online course", "mooc"]

links:
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title: Epimenides: Interoperability Reasoning for Digital Preservation
creators: ["Yannis Kargakis", "René van Horik", "Yannis Tzitzikas"]
type: paper
keywords: ["conversion/emulation", "dependencymanagement", "automated reasoning", "case study"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/epimenides-interoperability-reasoning-for-digital-preservation/

abstract:
 This paper presents Epimenides, a system that implements a novel interoperability dependency reasoning approach for assisting digital preservation activities. A distinctive feature is that it can model also converters and emulators, and the adopted modelling approach enables the automatic reasoning needed for reducing the human effort required for checking (and monitoring) whether a task on a digital object (digital collection in general) is performable. Finally, the paper describes (in the form of scenarios) concrete preservation activities of a research data archive (DANS) and elaborates on how Epimenides could be used and the benefits that would bring.

links:
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creators: ["Oleg Stobbe", "Klaus Rechert", "Dirk von Suchodoletz"]
type: demonstration
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Demonstration of an Integrated System for Platform-independent Description of Human-Machine Interactions

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/demonstration-of-an-integrated-system-for-platform-independent-d/

abstract:
When using emulation to render digital objects, a dedicated system environment is required. This environment typically consists of a set of software, i.e. an emulator, replicating the original hardware, operating system, hardware drivers, application as well as tools and utilities. Typically such technical meta-data is modelled using a view-path. Configuration and operating knowledge, however, is also required and needs to be described and preserved to secure deterministic future environment and workflow replication. One possible solution is to capture and replay human-machine interaction in an abstract way. A model for recording and capturing interactions between human users and an emulated machine has already been proposed. With the integration of such a system in an Emulation-as-a-Service service model, usability has been improved significantly by integration the capturing and replay into EaaS workflows. This demo’s purpose is to demonstrate the system’s usability and utility for digital preservation tasks like automation, documentation and replication of interactive tasks.

links:
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title: Reviving Antique Software: Curation Challenges and the Olive Archive
creators: ["Daniel Ryan", "Gloriana St. Clair"]
type: demonstration
keywords: ["preservation", "software", "virtualization"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/reviving-antique-software-curation-challenges-and-the-olive-arch/

abstract:
A growing percentage of the world's intellectual output is in the form of executable content, such as simulation models, tutoring systems, data visualization tools, and expert systems. To preserve this content over time, we need to freeze and precisely reproduce the execution that dynamically produces that content. Olive, a rough acronym for “Open Library of Images for Virtualized Execution,” is a system built at Carnegie Mellon University. Olive preserves and provides access to this executable content. It relies on virtual machine (VM) technology to bundle software with all of its dependencies. These VMs are streamed over the internet in real time to ensure a smooth user experience while maintaining fidelity to the original execution environment.

This demonstration examines some of the challenges the Olive team has encountered in the process of preserving software over the last several years. Among these difficulties are technical challenges, problems of scale, legal limitations, and a lack of existing curation standards for executable content.

links:
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title: POSTERS & DEMONSTRATIONS - (Poster) Curation Cost Exchange platform: Demonstration (Poster)
creators: ["Luis Faria", "Neil Grindley"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/posters-demonstrations-poster-curation-cost-exchange-platform-de/

abstract:
This demonstration proposal describes the Curation Cost Exchange platform (CCEx), a web application that allows organizations to introduce, analyse, share and compare the cost of their digital curation activities. It is also a central hub for digital curation costing related information; and is a social platform that brings together organizations with the same problems and allows sharing of experiences, good practices and know-how. The CCEx is an output of the 4C Project (a Collaboration Clarify the Costs of Curation) and the relationship of the CCEx to other 4C Project outputs will also be briefly described. 

keywords:
["curation", "cost", "cost analysis", "economy", "curation activities", "cost analysis", "cost comparison", "social", "cost information", "cost model"]

links:
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title: E-Ark Project – Best Practice Survey on the Archiving of Digital Material: Poster (Poster)
creators: ["Clive Billenness", "Kathrine Johansen", "David Anderson"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/e-ark-project-best-practice-survey-on-the-archiving-of-digital-m/

abstract:
This paper describes the poster presented at iPres2014 by the EC funded E-ARK Project, detailing the results of an international user survey recently conducted into Best Practice in the full life cycle of the long term preservation of digital records by archival organizations in the state and private sectors.

keywords:
["digital archives", "user survey", "e-ark", "ec", "ict-psp", "sip", "aip", "pilot", "e-infrastructure", "digital archives", "data mining", "oais", "big data", "born-digital records", "ingest", "access"]

links:
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title: NLA Software and File Formats Knowledge Base
creators: ["Mark Pearson", "Gareth Kay"]
type: demonstration
keywords: ["software", "file format", "knowledge base", "graph database"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/nla-software-and-file-formats-knowledge-base/

abstract:
This demonstration will showcase ongoing work at the National Library of Australia to develop a software and file formats knowledge base for digital preservation purposes. This project involves empirical research into the capabilities of software applications in relation to file formats. We will talk about the types of information we capture in the knowledge base and describe the steps we are taking to transform it into a machine-actionable graph database, a prototype of which will also be demonstrated.

links:
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title: State Records NSW Digital Archives: Poster (Poster)
creators: ["Richard Lehane", "Danny Archer", "Cassie Findlay"]
type: poster
keywords: ["recordkeeping", "archives", "state records new south wales"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/state-records-nsw-digital-archives-poster-poster/

abstract:
In this paper, we describe a poster on the State Records New South Wales approach to digital archives.

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title: Access and Preservation in the Cloud: Lessons from Operating Preservica Cloud Edition
creators: ["Kevin O’Farrelly", "Robert Sharpe", "Maïté Braud", "James Carr", "Alan Gairey"]
type: paper
keywords: ["oais", "bit-level preservation", "logical preservation", "active preservation", "cloud"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/access-and-preservation-in-the-cloud-lessons-from-operating-pres/

abstract:
The archival community has recently been offered a series of cloud solutions providing various forms of digital preservation. However, Perservica is unique in providing not just bit-level preservation but the full gamut of digital preservation services that, up until recently, were available only to organizations using a system installed on-site following on from a complex, and potentially risky, software development project. This “new paradigm” thus offers a zero capital cost “pay as you go” model to perform not just bit-level preservation but also “active preservation”. This short paper will describe the practical difficulties of providing and operating such a comprehensive
service in the cloud.

A cloud system’s advantage is to reduce the need for capital costs (since hardware and software are rented not bought up front) and system maintenance (since this is provided by the system’s provider). To reduce costs further a system can share multiple organizations’ content on a single operational instance. However, this instance must maintain each such tenant organization’s isolation (i.e. one organization’s content must not be exposed to any others). In addition each tenancy must be able to control its own processes without being able to compromise those of other tenants. This leads to the need for some degree of tenancy administration (without placing on each tenant a large burden of administration that is best handled at the system level).

The need to move bulk content across the internet as part of ingest cannot be avoided but the remaining ingest functionality can be performed either prior to upload (through a downloadable client-side tool) or server-side (through comprehensive workflows). Some ingest streams (e.g., web crawling) in fact can be considerably eased by using the cloud since an organization’s local internet bandwidth is no longer relevant.

Other OAIS functional entities (preservation planning, data management, administration and storage) can all be performed without the need to move content across the internet. Access can be provided in a variety of forms including those suitable for archivists and those suitable for the general public. It is also possible to render content server-side to minimize the need for download.

Importantly, it is also possible to export an organization’s entire content thereby providing a suitable “end of life” route to move to a different digital preservation system.

links:
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title: Sustainability Assessments at the British Library: Formats, Frameworks, & Findings
creators: ["Maureen Pennock", "Peter May", "Paul Wheatley"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/sustainability-assessments-at-the-british-library-formats-framew/

abstract:
File format assessments have been the subject of much debate in and outside of the preservation community in the past decade. Recognizing the unique structural, operational, and collecting context of the British Library, the Library’s digital preservation team recently initiated new format assessment work to deliver recommendations on which file formats will best enable the preservation of integral, authentic representations of British Library collection content over the long term. This paper describes the work carried out to review previous assessments, identify appropriate sustainability categories and newly assess formats accordingly.

We posit that the relatively ‘fuzzy’ nature of a file format requires a relatively open-ended assessment framework and a nuanced understanding of preservation risk that does not solely lie with ‘all-or-nothing’ format obsolescence. We review other work in this area and suggest that whilst previous format assessment work has addressed a range of subtly different aims, experience has since indicated that some of the criteria used - such as considering number of pages in a format specification as a measure of complexity - may be invalid. British Library assessments are made on documented points of principle, for example, an emphasis on evidence-based preservation risks and the avoidance of numerical scores leading to comparisons between formats, and these have formed the base upon which sustainability categories are defined. We present these categories, which help to identify preservation risks or other challenges in the management of digital collections, and provide an overview of initial assessments of three formats: TIFF, JP2, and PDF. We acknowledge however, that implementation of preservation requirements, e.g., the use of particular preservation-justified file formats, must be balanced against other business requirements, such as storage costs and access needs, and argue that transparency of this format assessment process is fundamental if the resulting recommendations are to be fully understood in the future.
 

keywords:
["british library", "file formats", "sustainability", "assessments", "transparency", "preservation master"]

links:
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title: A Model for Format Endangerment Analysis using Fuzzy Logic
creators: ["Roman Graf", "Heather Ryan", "Sergiu Gordea"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/a-model-for-format-endangerment-analysis-using-fuzzy-logic/

abstract:
This paper presents an approach for merging information automatically aggregated from open repositories and expert knowledge related to digital preservation. The main contribution of this work is the employment of fuzzy models to support digital preservation experts with semi-automatic estimation of “endangerment level” for file formats. Our goal is to make use of a solid knowledge base automatically aggregated from linked open data repositories to detect conflicts and inaccuracies in this data in order to improve the quality of a risk analysis process. The proposed method is meant to facilitate decision making with regard to preservation of digital content in libraries and archives using domain expert knowledge. To allow reasoning, even in the case of inconsistent data, we employ fuzzy logic techniques for transforming information about formats with user friendly metrics. The goal is to bring conflicting and incorrect information to the surface for correction and improvement by community. The analysis of a survey regarding the risk factors for file formats was used as an input for the fuzzy model and is presented in the evaluation section.

keywords:
["digital preservation", "risk analysis", "linked open data", "preservation planning", "ontology matching", "information integration"]

links:
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title: A Digital Preservation Environment Maturity Matrix for NSLA Libraries: Paper
creators: ["Sarah Slade", "David Pearson", "Libor Coufal"]
type: paper
keywords: ["digital preservation", "capability assessment", "environment maturity matrix", "nsla libraries"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/a-digital-preservation-environment-maturity-matrix-for-nsla-libr/

abstract:
In this paper, the authors describe the work done within the NSLA Digital Preservation Group to create a list and description of the functional components of an ideal digital preservation environment and a matrix of the current stage of development against each component for each NSLA library. After defining underlying assumptions, the functional components were derived from the OAIS standard. A modified Capability Maturity Model was incorporated as a mechanism for determining each organisation’s stage of development against each component. The matrix was then completed by representatives from the Digital Preservation Group in each of the ten NSLA libraries. The respondents were asked to self-rate their organisations for both the current digital preservation situation, and an intended situation in three years’ time. NSLA has identified digital preservation as an area of priority. The results from the Digital Preservation Environment Maturity Matrix reveal that NSLA libraries are on the right path but have some way to go before digital preservation processes are mature, sustainable and fit for purpose. Collaboration on policies, products and infrastructure will continue to address these needs.  

links:
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creators: ["Gry Elstrøm", "Jette Junge"]
type: paper
keywords: ["iso 16363", "self-assessment", "audit", "metrics", "digital preservation", "metadata"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Self-assessment of the Digital Repository at the State and University Library, Denmark - a Case Study: Paper 

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/self-assessment-of-the-digital-repository-at-the-state-and-unive/

abstract:
Organisations with a commitment to long-term digital preservation need to be perceived as trustworthy to meet the demands of their stakeholders. Audit and certification procedures provide a means to transparency and trustworthiness. The State and University Library has worked with trustworthiness for several years using different tools. In this paper, we describe the process and the benefits of performing an audit based on self-assessment by the use of ISO 16363 on the digital repository of the State and University Library. After describing the digital collections, DP organisation, policy framework and repository infrastructure it is explained how The State and University Library has been working with trustworthiness over the last four to five years. The latter part of the paper describes how we have conducted a self-assessment of the digital repository by the means of the ISO standard 16363. We explain some of the challenges of the work and the immediate effects of the process, which, at the time of writing, is not finished yet. 

links:
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title: Integrating e-government systems with digital archives: Paper
creators: ["Kuldar Aas", "Janet Delve", "Ricardo Vieira", "Ross King"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/integrating-e-government-systems-with-digital-archives-paper/

abstract:
While interoperability between active e-government systems has been a significant area of work during the last decade, the fact that much of this information needs to be preserved for the long-term after the initial creation has been ignored, and the re-use of data has been of secondary concern. This paper looks into the needs of long-term preservation of digital-born e-government data and describes how the EC-funded E-ARK project proposes further actions to address the challenge in a cost-effective manner. 

keywords:
["long-term preservation", "interoperability", "digital repositories", "oais", "ingest", "access", "e-ark", "data mining", "big data", "e-infrastructures e-government"]

links:
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title: Digital Preservation: Are We Succeeding?: Panel
type: paper
keywords: ["evaluation", "success", "failure", "digital preservation"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/digital-preservation-are-we-succeeding-panel/

creators:
["Shaun Hendy", "Ross Wilkinson", "Helen Tibbo", "Andreas Rauber", "Seamus Ross", "Barbara Sierman", "Ed Fay"]

abstract:
The Programme Committee created a panel for this year’s conference that was structured to generate introspection in the digital preservation community. The panel took the form of a debate between international figures and debated the question: Digital Preservation: Are we succeeding? The following are notes compiled from the event, rather than a summary and conclusion. A video of the event is available on the iPRES 2014 website. 

 

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title: Preserving Government Business Systems: Panel
creators: ["Cassie Findlay", "Neal Fitzgerald", "Andrew Waugh", "Richard Lehane"]
type: paper
keywords: ["government archives", "recordkeeping"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/preserving-government-business-systems-panel/

abstract:
The role of government archival institutions is to ensure that essential evidence of the business of government is made, kept and used. This evidence now resides in a wide array of systems and structures; from large centralised case management systems to collaborative workspaces in the cloud. Government archives work with agencies on systems design, improvements and migrations with good recordkeeping their goal. 
 

links:
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title: Linked Data Registry: A New Approach To Technical Registries
creators: ["Maïté Braud", "James Carr", "Kevin Leroux", "Joseph Rogers", "Robert Sharpe"]
type: paper
keywords: ["linked data", "digital preservation", "automation", "technical registries"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/linked-data-registry-a-new-approach-to-technical-registries/

abstract:
Technical Registries are used in digital preservation to enable
organizations to maintain definitions of the formats, format
properties, software, migration pathways etc. needed to preserve
content over the long term. There have been a number of
initiatives to produce technical registries leading to the
development of, for example, PRONOM, UDFR and the Planets
Core Registry.

However, these have all been subject to some criticisms. One
problem is that either the information model is fixed and difficult
to evolve or flexible but hard for users to understand. However,
the main problem is the governance of the information in the
registry. This has often been restricted to the host organization,
which may have limitations on the investment they can make.
This restriction has meant that, whilst other organizations have,
perhaps, been free to use the registry they have been unable to
add to or edit the information within it. The hosts of the
registries have generally been receptive to requests for additions
and change but this has still led to issues with timing or when
different organizations cannot agree (or just utilize or interpret
things in different ways).

In this paper we describe a new approach, which has used linked
data technology to create the Linked Data Registry (LDR). This
approach means it is simple to extend the data model and to link
to other sources that provide a more rounded description of an
entity. In addition, every effort has been made to ensure there is
a simple user interface so that users can easily find and
understand the information contained in the registry.

This paper describes what is believed to be the first linked data
technical registry that can be deployed widely. The key element
of the new approach is the distributed maintenance model which
is designed to resolve the governance problem. Any organization hosting an LDR instance is free to add and edit content and to
extend the model. If an instance of LDR is exposed on the
internet, then any other organization is free to retrieve this
additional information and hold it in its own LDR instance,
alongside locally maintained information and information
retrieved from other sources. This means a peer-to-peer network
is established where each registry instance in the network
chooses which other registry instances to trust and thereby from
whom to receive which content. This gives control to each
individual organization, since they are not dependent on anyone
else but can choose to take different content from appropriate
authoritative sources. At the same time it allows collaboration to
reduce the administrative burden associated with the
maintenance of all of the information.

links:
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title: Automatic Discovery of Preservation Alternatives Supported by Community Maintained Knowledge Bases
creators: ["Rudolf Mayer", "Johannes Binder", "Stephan Strodl", "Andreas Rauber"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/automatic-discovery-of-preservation-alternatives-supported-by-co/

abstract:
Preservation Planning, which deals with selecting the most appropriate preservation action to be applied to digital objects, is an important step in any digital preservation activity. Comprehensive Preservation Planning depends on the availability of identified alternatives of preservation actions, which are for example file format migrations to migrate data in an outdated format to one that has better support. Also emulation, e.g. of the behaviour of a specific software application (application emulation), can be a viable preservation action. The alternative identification step can either be performed manually by an expert, or (semi-) automatically, if appropriate knowledge bases are available. Building and maintaining such knowledge bases is however a tedious task, as the number of software applications and file formats, and especially their relation to each other, is very large. In this paper, we therefore present an approach to automatically build knowledge bases for Preservation Planing from already existing, open resources. One such source is the community maintained Freebase, which contains linked data on many topics, among them file formats, software applications, and most importantly, their relations, in a structured manner. We demonstrate the applicability of these knowledge bases by automatically identifying possible digital preservative actions on a uses case, an eScience experiment from the domain of data mining. This use case originates from the task of process preservation, where we look beyond single files, but regard complete chains of executions as the objects to be preserved.

links:
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title: Making the strange familiar: Bridging boundaries on database preservation projects
creators: ["Peter Francis", "Alan Kong"]
type: paper
keywords: ["boundary objects", "public records", "database preservation", "siard"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/making-the-strange-familiar-bridging-boundaries-on-database-pres/

abstract:
Archive authorities develop information resources to enable public offices to meet their obligations under their jurisdiction's public records laws. Particular care is taken to ensure that these materials equip their audience with the necessary context and knowledge. Our current work with the evaluation of tools and processes for the preservation of relational databases causes us to question whether good documentation will be enough.

In this paper we describe our experiences at the Public Record
Office Victoria (PROV), Australia, in developing processes and guidance for the preservation of relational databases. We find that these projects are different to ‘traditional’ transfers, and that their novelty and technical challenges may be made more difficult by organizational and conceptual complexities. We posit that the nature of such projects may require more than the knowledge of that must be done and how it should be done. We reason that these projects may be hindered by the lack of a shared language to communicate across organisational or functional boundaries.

Using database preservation projects as an example, we discuss the potential contribution that theoretical perspectives such as boundary objects (Star), transmission theory (Shannon) and externalization (Norman) may make to our development of guidance and how this may assist the support of cross-functional dialogue. While focused on database preservation projects, this approach may be generalisable to other cross-disciplinary and cross-functional work.

links:
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title: Developing Costing Models for Emulation Based Access in Scientific Libraries
creators: ["Euan Cochrane", "Dirk von Suchodoletz", "Klaus Rechert"]
type: paper
keywords: ["cost model", "emulation", "eaas", "digital object access", "archival workflow", "service."]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/developing-costing-models-for-emulation-based-access-in-scientif/

abstract:
Digital preservation practitioners are beginning to answer questions about the costs related to the long-term availability of digital information. In order to successfully model these costs archival systems and workflows need to be fully understood and their costs identified. This can become exceedingly difficult for complex access and preservation strategies like emulation. If emulation is to be considered in a strategy mix its cost components need to be gathered and understood so that institutions can develop informed preservation plans and decide which strategy to follow. The digital preservation community now has a systematic understanding of storage and repository administration costs, but emulation and surrounding services are still an emerging topic for memory institutions. While costs to produce bitpreservable representations of digital artefacts are relatively well known there is an array of rather unpredictable cost factors that need to be further researched. Many of these unexplored costs factors vary depending on the kind of digital objects and the objectives of the stakeholders involved in the activities.

links:
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title: A next generation technical registry: moving practice forward
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/a-next-generation-technical-registry-moving-practice-forward/

creators:
["Peter McKinney", "Steve Knight", "Jay Gattuso", "David Pearson", "Libor Coufal", "Kevin DeVorsey", "David Anderson", "Janet Delve", "Ross Spencer", "Jan Hutař"]

abstract:
In this paper we introduce the work of the National and State
Libraries Australasia Digital Preservation Technical Registry
project.

Digital preservation practitioners must be able to assume technical and intellectual control of content they are charged with preserving. Our experiences tell us that the information and services used to underpin this control are insufficient. Enterprise-class digital preservation services require something better. We believe the solution outlined here is well placed to deliver information required to preserve digital content. Ultimately, this means that the practitioner can say with a strong degree of certainty that they do indeed have control of the content they are charged with preserving. 

keywords:
["technical registry", "formats", "hardware", "carrier media", "operating sysyems", "community", "nsla."]

links:
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creators: ["Anna Metcalfe", "Christopher Lee", "Steve Knight"]
abstract: Introductory Pages of the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Digital Preservation
type: proceedings preface
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Title, Bibliographic Details, Conference Committee List, Local Organising Committee List, Programme Committee List, Preface, Programme Details, Contents Pages

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/title-bibliographic-details-conference-committee-list-local-orga/

keywords:
["conferences", "state library of victoria", "national library of australia", "melbourne", "australia", "digital preservation"]

links:
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title: iPRES 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects
type: proceedings
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/ipres-2014-proceedings-of-the-11th-international-conference-on-p/

creators:
["Serena Coates", "Ross King", "Steve Knight", "Christopher Lee", "Peter McKinney", "Erin O'Meara", "David Pearson"]

abstract:
From October 6‐10, 2014, the State Library of Victoria was pleased to host the eleventh annual iPRES Conference. The conference was co-hosted by the State Library of Victoria and the National Library of Australia. 

keywords:
["conferences", "state library of victoria", "national library of australia", "melbourne", "australia", "digital preservation"]

links:
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creators: ["Ingrid MacDonald", "Neal Fitzgerald", "Anna Morris", "Adrian Cunningham"]
type: paper
keywords: ["legacy business systems", "methodology", "disposition", "preservation"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Decommissioning of legacy systems: A methodology for indentifying and preserving records of ongoing business value in legacy business systems: Paper 

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/decommissioning-of-legacy-systems-a-methodology-for-indentifying/

abstract:
This paper provides an overview of the methodology and supporting advice developed by Queensland State Archives to help Queensland government departments undertaking the disposal or replacement of legacy ICT assets to lawfully manage the information content of those systems. Before deleting or investing in any preservation effort on records in decommissioning candidate systems, agencies need to have a clear understanding of: which records need to be kept and for how long; how to seek disposition authorisation for records which may have no ongoing value to the organisation; and what is and is not deemed a suitable preservation environment for managing records of ongoing value, from a recordkeeping perspective. Developed with the non-record professional in mind, a key message underpinning the methodology is that records as evidence of business activity are strategic assets in their own right, not just a byproduct of the business process, owned by the application. 

links:
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title: Getting to Digital Preservation Tools that “Just Work”: Panel
type: paper
keywords: ["digital preservation tools", "open-source", "enhancements", "software development", "funding"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/getting-to-digital-preservation-tools-that-just-work-panel/

creators:
["Andrea Goethals", "Paul Wheatley", "Stephen Abrams", "Janet Delve", "Ed Fay", "Christopher Lee", "Dirk von Suchodoletz"]

abstract:
In this paper, we describe a panel that discussed experiences, strategies, challenges and lessons learned maintaining and funding digital preservation tools that are available for use by the digital preservation community. The panel, together with the audience, explored the challenges and discussed potential solutions to developing more robust and sustainable support structures for these tools. 

links:
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title: Applying the TIMBUS Approach to Preserving Context in Digital Libraries
creators: ["Carlos Coutinho", "Paul Gooding"]
type: workshops and tutorials
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/applying-the-timbus-approach-to-preserving-context-in-digital-li/

abstract:
To date, digital preservation has generally focused on the preservation of specific data in the form of artefacts. However, in order to ensure that this data is accessible in the long term, it is vital that we consider how to extract and preserve information on the software and hardware contexts which this data depends upon to operate. We therefore need tools to assist in identifying, preserving and validating the processes which underpin the creation of data in digital libraries. 

In particular, we need to consider the importance of preserving not just individual digital artefacts, but the platforms which allow digital libraries to render or execute their items. Digital libraries rely on this software to render their items, and it is therefore important to know configuration details and software dependencies to ensure these items remain fully operational in the future. In the case of digital libraries, the TIMBUS framework provides the tools necessary to assist practitioners in identifying relevant processes, undertake risk analysis, and then to assist the user in extracting, preserving and revalidating the necessary processes.

This half-day tutorial introduces the TIMBUS approach to process preservation, and demonstrates how it can be applied to issues relating to digital libraries. TIMBUS focuses primarily on business processes, but this tutorial will show its approach to process-oriented preservation is also relevant to digital libraries. It provides a methodology for process preservation and a set of tools which help to semi-automatically validate and preserve processes so that they can be recreated at a later dat. Participants will be given the knowledge to understand the importance of technical environments for collection items, and learn more about the TIMBUS solutions through examples relevant to the digital library domain. They will also gain an understanding of digital preservation as a risk mitigation strategy. 
 

links:
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creators: ["Paul Wheatley"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Lessons learned in developing digital preservation tools the right way (and the wrong way): Poster (Poster) 

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/lessons-learned-in-developing-digital-preservation-tools-the-rig/

abstract:
The digital preservation community has had a chequered history in developing software tools to perform operations essential for preserving digital data. Poor technology choices, half measures in adopting open source approaches, insufﬁcient engagement with users, ﬁnite project funding and an array of other challenges have hampered tool development. Gaps in capability are common but even where tools have been created to take on a particular problem, they oﬁen face patchy support and an uncertain future. Lessons have however been learned from mistakes that have been made in the past. User engagement and an agile development approach can focus solutions on real problems. Adoption and expansion of existing tools (sometimes from outside of this community) can yield greater and more dependable results. Focused designs can make adoption easier. Sharing the experimentation and data behind tool development and assessment can be as invaluable as the tools themselves. This paper provides an outline of lessons learned from developing digital preservation tools across JISC and EU ﬁmded digital preservation projects, such as PLANETS and SCAPE and more recently from agile hackathon and mashup events run by SPRUCE.

keywords:
["digital preservation", "user requirements", "digital preservation tools", "open source development"]

links:
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creators: ["Paul Wheatley"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Lessons learned in developing digital preservation tools the right way (and the wrong way): Poster (Text) 

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/lessons-learned-in-developing-digital-preservation-tools-the-rig/

abstract:
The digital preservation community has had a chequered history in developing software tools to perform operations essential for preserving digital data. Poor technology choices, half measures in adopting open source approaches, insufﬁcient engagement with users, ﬁnite project funding and an array of other challenges have hampered tool development. Gaps in capability are common but even where tools have been created to take on a particular problem, they oﬁen face patchy support and an uncertain future. Lessons have however been learned from mistakes that have been made in the past. User engagement and an agile development approach can focus solutions on real problems. Adoption and expansion of existing tools (sometimes from outside of this community) can yield greater and more dependable results. Focused designs can make adoption easier. Sharing the experimentation and data behind tool development and assessment can be as invaluable as the tools themselves. This paper provides an outline of lessons learned from developing digital preservation tools across JISC and EU ﬁmded digital preservation projects, such as PLANETS and SCAPE and more recently from agile hackathon and mashup events run by SPRUCE.

keywords:
["digital preservation", "user requirements", "digital preservation tools", "open source development"]

links:
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title: Preservation of Web Content – An Emulation-based Case Study: Poster (Text)
creators: ["Dennis Wehrle", "Thomas Liebetraut", "Klaus Rechert"]
type: poster
keywords: ["emulation", "web preservation"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/preservation-of-web-content-an-emulation-based-case-study-poster/

abstract:
A significant amount of cultural activity has moved to the world wide web preservation of web content is becoming increasingly important. But with growing complexity and dynamics of web sites, a harvesting approach to web preservation has its limitations. We present a web preservation case study using a functional approach both for preservation and presentation. By using Emulation-as-a-Service (EaaS), a complete web site (web server, content management system, database) can be preserved and functionally re-enacted efficiently on demand.

links:
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title: Preservation of Web Content – An Emulation-based Case Study: Poster (Poster)
creators: ["Dennis Wehrle", "Thomas Liebetraut", "Klaus Rechert"]
type: poster
keywords: ["emulation", "web preservation"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/preservation-of-web-content-an-emulation-based-case-study-poster/

abstract:
A significant amount of cultural activity has moved to the world wide web preservation of web content is becoming increasingly important. But with growing complexity and dynamics of web sites, a harvesting approach to web preservation has its limitations. We present a web preservation case study using a functional approach both for preservation and presentation. By using Emulation-as-a-Service (EaaS), a complete web site (web server, content management system, database) can be preserved and functionally re-enacted efficiently on demand.

links:
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title: Functional Access to Electronic Media Collections using Emulation-as-a-Service: Poster (Text)
creators: ["Thomas Bähr", "Michelle Lindlar", "Klaus Rechert", "Thomas Liebetraut"]
type: poster
keywords: ["emulation", "access", "media collection"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/functional-access-to-electronic-media-collections-using-emulatio/

abstract:
Over the last 30 years the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) accumulated a large collection of various electronic media, such as floppies or CD-ROMs. This poster describes both practical workflows as well as technical infrastructure to provide authentic and interactive access to the TIB’s large electronic media collection.

links:
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creators: ["Stacey Erdman"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
The Digital POWRR Project: Enabling Collaborative Pragmatic Digital Preservation Approaches: Poster (Poster) 

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/the-digital-powrr-project-enabling-collaborative-pragmatic-digit/

abstract:
The Digital POWRR Project has spent several years investigating scalable and practical digital preservation solutions that might be able to be implemented at smaller and less-resourced institutions. 

links:
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title: New Perspectives on Economic Modeling for Digital Curation
creators: ["Neil Grindley", "Ulla Kejser", "Hervé L’Hours"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/new-perspectives-on-economic-modeling-for-digital-curation/

abstract:
Society is increasingly dependent on the availability of digital
information assets however the resources that are available for
managing the assets over time (curating) are limited. As such, it is
increasingly vital that organizations are able to judge the
effectiveness of their investments into curation activities. For
those responsible for digital curation, it is an ongoing challenge to
ensure that the assets remain valuable in a sustainable manner.
Digital curation and preservation practices are still evolving and
they are not well aligned across different organizations and
different sectors. The lack of clear definitions and standardization
makes it difficult to compare the costs and benefits of multiple
curation processes, which again impedes identification of good
practice. This paper introduces a new perspective on modeling the
economics of curation. It describes a framework of interrelated
models that represent different aspects of the economic lifecycle
based around curation. The framework includes a sustainability
model, a cost and benefit model, a business model, and a cost
model. The framework provides a common vocabulary and
clarifies the roles and responsibilities of managers with a demand
for curation of digital assets and suppliers of curation services and
solutions. Further, the framework reflects the context in which
managers operate and how this context influences their decision-making. This should enable managers to think through different
scenarios around the economics of curation and to analyze the
impact of different decisions to support strategic planning. The
framework is intended to serve as a basis for developing tools to
help managers analyze the costs and benefits associated with
curation. The models are being developed and refined as part of
the EU project 4C “Collaboration to Clarify the Cost of Curation”,
which is bringing together and bridging existing knowledge,
models and tools to create a better understanding of the economics
of curation.

keywords:
["economics", "models", "curation", "preservation", "strategy", "decision-making", "costs", "benefits", "risks", "sustainability."]

links:
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title: Virtualisation as a Tool for the Conservation of Software-Based Artworks
creators: ["Patrícia Falcão", "Alistair Ashe", "Brian Jones"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/virtualisation-as-a-tool-for-the-conservation-of-software-based/

abstract:
Tate has a small but growing collection of software-based artworks. From the outset basic preservation procedures, like testing equipment, backing up hard-drives and assets or thoroughly documenting the hardware and software were put in place, but it was clear that these procedures would need revising over time and as our experience grew. Tate’s earliest softwarebased artwork was created in 2003 and after 10 years the issues around aging technologies are becoming more obvious and new strategies for preservation are more urgently needed. The number of artworks being acquired and displayed is increasing and therefore better workflows must be developed to accommodate this increase.

This paper describes a short project to scope the use of virtualisation for preserving software-based artworks in Tate’s Collection. It briefly explains the tests performed, in terms of the techniques, resources and expertise involved. Through the tests it was confirmed that virtualisation is a viable strategy for the preservation of software-based artworks, and that it meets our requirement that the artworks be stored as a complete system independent from the original hardware. It was also a main requirement that different virtualisation tools must support the resulting virtual machines. As a conclusion, the workflow currently being developed for the preservation of Tate’s softwarebased artworks will be outlined.

keywords:
["software-based art", "computer-based art", "born-digital artworks", "virtualisation", "digital preservation", "long-term access", "museums"]

links:
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title: Archieving Canonical PDF Validation
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/archieving-canonical-pdf-validation/
creators: ["Duff Johnson"]
type: paper
keywords: ["pdf", "pdf/a", "software", "validation", "standard", "canonical", "adoption"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
abstract:
While PDF is the best currently available option for archiving fixed-form electronic documents, low quality PDF files remain problematic throughout the document lifecycle, and can pose substantial challenges for memory institutions.

This paper proposes a model for realizing and promulgating PDF validation based on a canonical (i.e. accepted industry-wide as definitive) approach rather than focusing on preservation per se.  

links:
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creators: ["Fabio Corubolo", "Anna Eggers", "Adil Hasan", "Mark Hedges", "Simon Waddington", "Jens Ludwig"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
A pragmatic approach to significant environment information collection to support object reuse: Paper 

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/a-pragmatic-approach-to-significant-environment-information-coll/

abstract:
When aiming to ensure the long-term usage of digital objects, it is important to carefully select what information to keep, considering also what lives outside of them. In the PERICLES project we start by analysing how such information has been described in related work, considering common definitions of metadata, context, significant properties and environment, and we come to the conclusion that we need to consider the broadest set of information, which we term environment information. Building on previous deﬁnitions, we introduce the concept of Significant Environment Information (SE1) that takes into account the dependencies of the digital object on external information for speciﬁc purposes and significance weights that express the importance of such dependencies for the specific purpose. From there we expand the definition in time considering the importance of collecting SEI during any phase of the digital object lifecycle, following the sheer curation perspective. Examples of SEI are illustrated in the very diverse use cases considered in the project, that include diverse data types from the Art domain and data from space observations in the Science domain. Finally we introduce our PERICLES Extraction Tool, that we developed to capture SEI, and present methods to extract SEI with experimental results supporting the approach. The PET tool automates the novel techniques we describe, supports sheer curation, as a continuous transparent collection process that otherwise the user (e.g. scientist, artist in our use cases) would have to find time to perform manually.

keywords:
["digital preservation", "significant properties", "significant environment information", "environment information", "dependency graph", "sheer curation", "significance weight", "dependency extraction"]

links:
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creators: ["Michael Day", "Maureen Pennock", "Akiko Kimura", "Ann MacDonald"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Identifying Digital Preservation Requirements: Digital Preservation Strategy and Collection Profiling at the British Library

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/identifying-digital-preservation-requirements-digital-preservati/

abstract:
The British Library is increasingly a digital library. Over past decades, it has built up significant collections of digital content covering a very wide range of content types. In addition to the increasing amounts of digital content acquired by purchase or donation, the Library and its partners have also invested heavily in the digitization of selected collection content, helping to create large collections of certain types of content (e.g., newspapers, outof-copyright books, and sound). Most recently, the extension of legal deposit provisions to non-print works in 2013 has meant that the British Library - working in conjunction with the other UK legal deposit libraries - has begun to collect new categories of digital content, including periodic harvests of the UK Web domain. In order to support this, the Library has also invested heavily in developing scalable infrastructures for the acquisition, storage and management of large amounts of digital content. The British Library Digital Preservation Strategy, 2013-2016 is focused on the embedding of digital sustainability as an organizational principle across the Library and to help manage preservation risks and challenges across all digital collection content lifecycles. This practice paper describes work being undertaken by the Digital Preservation Team at the British Library to develop content profiles of high-level digital collections that will support the implementation of the strategy, in particular for the capture of long-term preservation requirements. 

keywords:
["digital preservation", "collection content profiling", "preservation planning", "institutional contexts of preservation"]

links:
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title: Preservation of ebooks: from digitized to born-digital
creators: ["Sophie Derrot", "Jean-Philippe Moreux", "Clément Oury", "Stéphane Reecht"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/preservation-of-ebooks-from-digitized-to-born-digital/

abstract:
The scope of digital curation at the BnF covers documents digitized from BnF collections as well as born-digital material bought by the BnF or collected under its legal deposit mandate. It is therefore critical for the library to investigate if common approaches may be adopted for similar document types, whatever their origin may be. This paper proposes to focus on the case of electronic books (or ebooks), by comparing the way BnF teams intend to ensure the long term preservation of those directly digitized by the library and those that will enter through legal deposit.

Data and metadata formats are different, even though EPUB appears as the reference format for both kinds of ebooks. Acquisition procedures are necessarily specific. However, for the other steps of the treatment process, digitized and born digital books should follow similar and parallel workflows: indexing in BnF General Catalogue, access through the digital library Gallica and preservation in SPAR, BnF’s digital repository. Common validation tools, characterization schemes and preservation metadata will be used in order to preserve both faces of French digital heritage. 

keywords:
["digital library", "legal deposit", "born-digital archives", "digitization of heritage content", "accessibility", "ebook", "drm", "epub", "onix", "pdf"]

links:
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title: The process of building a national trusted digital repository: solving the federation problem
creators: ["Sharon Webb", "Aileen O’Carroll"]
type: paper
keywords: ["requirements", "policy", "storage", "deposit", "user roles", "use case", "legal frameworks"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/the-process-of-building-a-national-trusted-digital-repository-so/

abstract:
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is building an interactive national trusted digital repository for contemporary and historical, social and cultural data held by Irish institutions. It will provide a central Internet access point and interactive multimedia tools, for use by the public, students and scholars and inform national policy for digital preservation and access. In 2011/2012 DRI conducted a requirements analysis of stakeholder needs. This paper focuses on how aspects of this requirements analysis are translated into technical and policy solutions. We address how the project consortium, comprising six academic institutions, integrates with existing partner repositories and how the Digital Repository of Ireland tackles issues of repository federation in terms of storage, deposit and the legal frameworks associated with these activities. 
 

links:
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title: Acquiring and Processing Born-Digital Data Using the BitCurator Environment
creators: ["Christopher Lee"]
type: workshops and tutorials
keywords: ["forensics", "preservation", "dfxml", "metadata", "privacy", "collections", "acquisition"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/acquiring-and-processing-born-digital-data-using-the-bitcurator/

abstract:
This tutorial will prepare participants to use the open-source BitCurator environment to acquire and process born-digital data. There will be a brief lecture and discussion that focuses on the motivation for using the tools and several foundational technical concepts. The remainder of the tutorial will be devoted to demonstration and hands-on exercises that demonstrate specific tools and methods. Participants will learn how to mount media as read-only, create disk images, mount forensically packaged disk images, export individual files or entire directories from disk images, use Nautilus scripts to perform batch activities, generate and interpret Digital Forensics XML (DFXML), generate a variety of standard and customized reports (including PREMIS records), and identify various forms of sensitive data within collections. 
 

links:
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title: Shaping a national consortium for digital preservation
creators: ["Darryl Mead"]
type: paper
keywords: ["scotland", "national library of scotland", "digital preservation coalition building"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/shaping-a-national-consortium-for-digital-preservation/

abstract:
This paper asks the question “what form of digital preservation collective is best for Scotland?” and then sets out the options being explored under the leadership of the National Library of Scotland (NLS). As a result this paper straddles several areas across the themes of the conference. It deals with the desire for the creation of an integrated national preservation infrastructure in Scotland. It also looks at the ways we can develop an appetite for collaboration to align differing institutional contexts for preservation to build a better community. Additionally it examines issues around working within the strategic environment to coordinate local, regional and national approaches across Scotland and the United Kingdom. 

links:
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title: Then and Now: The Evolution of Digital Preservation and Collecting Requirements Over a Decade
creators: ["Leigh Rosin", "Kirsty Smith"]
type: paper
keywords: ["digital preservation", "requirements", "digital policy", "ingest"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/then-and-now-the-evolution-of-digital-preservation-and-collectin/

abstract:
This paper reflects on a decade of digital collecting and digital preservation development at the National Library of New Zealand. It will examine the workflows, policies and tools that have been developed in the decade since the funding for the National Digital Heritage Archive was received. The paper will look closely at the requirements that were identified for the initial development of the digital preservation system and compare them to the status of the current preservation programme and requirements roadmap. 

links:
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title: A Perspective on Archiving the Scholarly Web
creators: ["Herbert Van de Sompel", "Andrew Treloar"]
type: paper
keywords: ["scholarly communication", "web preservation"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/a-perspective-on-archiving-the-scholarly-web/

abstract:
As the scholarly communication system evolves to become natively web-based and starts supporting the communication of a wide variety of objects, the manner in which its essential functions – registration, certification, awareness, archiving - are fulfilled co-evolves. This paper focuses on the nature of the archival function based on a perspective of the developing future scholarly communication infrastructure. 

links:
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creators: ["Duff Johnson"]
type: workshops and tutorials
keywords: ["pdf", "pdf/a", "pdf/e", "pdf/ua", "xmp", "prc", "software", "standards"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Surveying ISO Standards for PDF: archive, accessibility, engineering, metadata, 3D data and PDF itself. History, pain points, solutions and the dream.

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/surveying-iso-standards-for-pdf-archive-accessibility-engineerin/

abstract:
This workshop provides high-level information on the features, development and current status of ISO standards for PDF relevant to archiving. It then provides an opportunity for participants to clearly identify and prioritize related requirements and solutions. Presented by the ISO Project Leader of ISO 32000, an independent consultant, the workshop will begin by reviewing the features and history of the technology and its associated standards. Thereafter, a set of breakout sessions will challenge participants to clearly specify their ideas and concerns about PDF and suggest a variety of solutions leveraging commercial software interests. Finally, workshop participants will come together to discuss the breakout session results, identify common themes and build consensus on specific, actionable requests for PDF producer and processor developers in the short and medium term. 

links:
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creators: ["Brent West", "Joanne Kaczmarek", "Jordan Phoenix"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Sustainable, justifiable, repeatable: A digital preservation strategy using metrics-based (re)appraisal: Poster (Poster) 

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/sustainable-justifiable-repeatable-a-digital-preservation-strate/

abstract:
Appraisal has long been a source of intense debate in the archival community. Digital collections, affordable storage costs, and software tools now offer the opportunity to enhance appraisal strategies and move the archival appraisal discussion productively forward. In this poster, we propose an iterative, technology-assisted, metrics-based approach to appraisal as part of a digital preservation strategy. Developed in concert with a Capstone-based project to preserve email messages of enduring value at the University of Illinois, this multimodal approach integrates various traditional appraisal techniques with business performance metrics for the purpose of achieving growth that is sustainable using justifiable appraisal decisions, applying repeatable processes, and ultimately establishing measurable institutional value. 

keywords:
["archives", "appraisal", "business process improvement", "capstone", "digital preservation", "metrics", "mplp", "reappraisal", "sustainability"]

links:
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title: Presto4U- European Technology for Digital Audiovisual Media Preservation: Poster (Text)
creators: ["Jacqui Gupta"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/presto4u-european-technology-for-digital-audiovisual-media-prese/

abstract:
This poster describes the actions, progress and research results of the Presto4U project, an EC funded two year coordination and support action which started in January 2013 focussing on the long term preservation of digital audiovisual media within a diverse range of Communities of Practice. The aim of the project is to identify useful results of research into digital audiovisual preservation and to raise awareness and improve the adoption of these both by technology and service providers as well as media owners. It will deliver new tools and services to connect different constituencies involved in AV Media preservation: expert users, who understand the problems and require technological solutions; researchers who can develop the fundamental knowledge; and technology providers who can commercialise research results as sustainable tools and services.

keywords:
["digital media preservation", "communities of practice", "standards", "digital preservation marketplace", "preservation tools", "best practice"]

links:
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title: Quality Assurance Tools for Digital Repositories: Poster (Poster)
creators: ["Roman Graf", "Ross King"]
type: poster
keywords: ["digital preservation", "quality assurance", "image processing", "information integration"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/quality-assurance-tools-for-digital-repositories-poster-poster/

abstract:
Digitization workflows for automatic acquisition of image collections are susceptible to errors and require quality assurance. This paper presents a quality assurance tool suite for long term preservation. These tools support decision making for blank pages, cropping errors, mistakenly appearing fingers in scans and accurate duplicate detection in document image collections. The important contribution of this work is a definition of the quality assurance workflow and its automatic computation. The goal is to create a reliable tool suite that is based on image processing techniques.

links:
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title: E-Ark Project – Best Practice Survey on the Archiving of Digital Material: Poster (Text)
creators: ["Clive Billenness", "Kathrine Johansen", "David Anderson"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/e-ark-project-best-practice-survey-on-the-archiving-of-digital-m/

abstract:
This paper describes the poster presented at iPres2014 by the EC funded E-ARK Project, detailing the results of an international user survey recently conducted into Best Practice in the full life cycle of the long term preservation of digital records by archival organizations in the state and private sectors.

keywords:
["digital archives", "user survey", "e-ark", "ec", "ict-psp", "sip", "aip", "pilot", "e-infrastructure", "digital archives", "data mining", "oais", "big data", "born-digital records", "ingest", "access"]

links:
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title: Functional Access to Electronic Media Collections using Emulation-as-a-Service: Poster (Poster)
creators: ["Thomas Bähr", "Michelle Lindlar", "Klaus Rechert", "Thomas Liebetraut"]
type: poster
keywords: ["emulation", "access", "media collection"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/functional-access-to-electronic-media-collections-using-emulatio/

abstract:
Over the last 30 years the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) accumulated a large collection of various electronic media, such as floppies or CD-ROMs. This poster describes both practical workflows as well as technical infrastructure to provide authentic and interactive access to the TIB’s large electronic media collection.

links:
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creators: ["Stacey Erdman"]
type: poster
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
The Digital POWRR Project: Enabling Collaborative Pragmatic Digital Preservation Approaches: Poster (Text) 

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/the-digital-powrr-project-enabling-collaborative-pragmatic-digit/

abstract:
The Digital POWRR Project has spent several years investigating scalable and practical digital preservation solutions that might be able to be implemented at smaller and less-resourced institutions. 

links:
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title: Leveraging Web Archiving Tools for Research and LongTerm Access
creators: ["Lori Donovan"]
type: workshops and tutorials
keywords: ["web archiving", "research services", "access"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/leveraging-web-archiving-tools-for-research-and-longterm-access/

abstract:
This workshop will introduce participants to web archiving concepts and challenges, including creating web archives and providing for access and research use. 

links:
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title: A Novel Metadata Standard for Multimedia Preservation
creators: ["Walter Allasia", "Wo Chang", "Sergiu Gordea", "Werner Bailer"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/a-novel-metadata-standard-for-multimedia-preservation/

abstract:
This paper introduces the motivation and describes the model of a novel metadata standard for the exchange of preservation metadata of multimedia content. The model is being standardised as the MPEG Multimedia Preservation Application Format (MPAF), addressing the specific issues related to the preservation description information of audiovisual contents. Several standards for expressing metadata in digital preservation are available and have been taken into consideration in the paper and in the work done in MPEG. However, none of them is able to cover all the needed aspects related to the preservation of audiovisual content. Audiovisual files are in most cases containers and are usually made up of several tracks carrying audio data, video data and specific time-based metadata. In order to be able to perform the opportune preservation actions (among others planning and format migration), several kinds of information must be kept alongside the audiovisual contents. Within this context a standardised representation for these structures and metadata is needed. Information such as quality description or fixity at frame level is required for ensuring long term access to visual content. Without using a standardised interface it is hard to guarantee a faithful rendering of encoded information while exchanging contents between different repositories, either internally or with external institutions. This paper describes the work done so far within MPEG for defining a standard metadata model which covers the identified missing parts and gaps regarding the acquisition of digital preservation description information.

keywords:
["digital preservation", "multimedia metadata", "preservation description information", "oais", "audiovisual content preservation", "standard"]

links:
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title: VPlan - Ontology for Collection of Process Verification Data
creators: ["Tomasz Miksa", "Andreas Rauber", "Ricardo Vieira"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/vplan-ontology-for-collection-of-process-verification-data/

abstract:
The reproducibility of modern research depends on the possibility to faithfully rerun the complex and distributed data transformation processes which were executed by scientists in order to make new scientific breakthroughs. New methods and frameworks try to address this problem by collecting evidence used for verification of such experiments. However, there is still a lack of a flexible data model which would address all of the needs of these methods. This paper presents the VPlan ontology designed for the purpose of organizing and storing of data collected for verification of preserved processes. The VPlan ontology stores and links the data extracted from the preserved process. Furthermore, it includes descriptions of actions taken to collect the data, as well as provides a clear break down of requirements that lead to its collection. We demonstrate the usage of the VPlan ontology within the preservation process and describe in detail its alignment with the Verification Framework (VFramework). In order to illustrate its applicability to the eScience domain, we evaluate it on a use case from the civil engineering domain, which is an example of a typical sensor data analysis process. 

links:
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title: Occam’s Razor and File Format Endangerment Factors
creators: ["Heather Ryan"]
type: paper
keywords: ["endangerment", "file formats", "formative measurement model", "obsolescence"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/occams-razor-and-file-format-endangerment-factors/

abstract:
Much digital preservation research has been built on the assumption that file format obsolescence poses a great risk to the continued access of digital content. In efforts to address this, a number of researchers created lists of factors that could be used to assess risks associated with digital file formats. This research examines these assumptions about file format obsolescence and file format evaluation factors with the aim of creating a simplified file format endangerment index.

This study examines file format risk under a new lens of file format endangerment. Using the Delphi method in two separate studies, this exploratory research collected expert opinion on relevance of a list of factors as causal indicators of file format endangerment.

The findings show that only three of the dozens of file format evaluation factors discussed in the literature exceeded an emergent threshold level as causes of file format endangerment: rendering software available, specifications available, and community/3rd party support. These factors are ideal candidates for use in a file format endangerment index. 

links:
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title: Uniform and Robust Access to Resource Versions
creators: ["Herbert Van de Sompel"]
type: workshops and tutorials
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/uniform-and-robust-access-to-resource-versions/

abstract:
The Memento protocol tightly integrates the Web of the Present and that of the Past, making it possible to seamlessly navigate between both. The protocol defines an interoperable approach to access versions of a resource in web archives or content management systems such as wikis that leverage the URI of that resource and the datetime of the required resource version. Technically, the Memento protocol is an extension of HTTP that is fully based on the primitives of Web interoperability: URIs, resource representations, links, content negotiation. The tutorial will give an in-depth insight in various aspects of the Memento protocol that meanwhile has been published as RFC 7089. 

keywords:
["versioning", "web archives", "content management systems", "http", "content negotiation", "interoperability", "web persistence", "internet robustness"]

links:
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title: Defining a Roadmap for Economically Efficient Digital Curation – a 4C Project Workshop
creators: ["Neil Grindley", "Katarina Haage", "Paul Stokes"]
type: workshops and tutorials
keywords: ["economics", "policy", "strategy"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/defining-a-roadmap-for-economically-efficient-digital-curation-a/

abstract:
The 4C Project is tasked with delivering a Roadmap report and it is this drive towards ‘economic efficiency’ in relation to digital curation that will be central to the agenda that it sets out. This workshop is an important opportunity to connect with stakeholders and get input for a critical deliverable of the project. But it is also an opportunity for participants to learn more about the economics of digital curation and to critically assess the efficiency and sustainability of their own services and solutions. 

 

links:
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title: PREMIS Implementation Fair Workshop
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/premis-implementation-fair-workshop/
creators: ["Peter McKinney", "Rebecca Guenther", "Eld Zierau"]
type: workshops and tutorials
keywords: ["preservation metadata", "preservation repository implementation", "data dictionary"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
abstract:
This workshop provides an overview of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, a standard addressing the information you need to know to preserve digital content in a repository. It includes an introduction to PREMIS and reports from the preservation community on implementation of the standard in various systems or contexts. 

links:
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title: Digital Preservation Systems Showcase
creators: ["Ross King", "Ex Libris", "Preservica", "KEEP Solutions", "Artefactual Systems", "DuraSpace"]
type: workshops and tutorials
keywords: ["digital preservation systems showcase"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/digital-preservation-systems-showcase/

abstract:
iPRES2014 Digital Preservation Systems Showcase. System demonstrations by DuraSpace, Artefactual Systems, KEEP Solutions, Preservica and Ex Libris

links:
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title: Converting WordStar to HTML4
url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/converting-wordstar-to-html4/
creators: ["Peter McKinney", "Jay Gattuso"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
abstract:
In this paper, we describe the processing and verification work undertaken to migrate WordStar for MSDOS to HTML4 formatted files.  

keywords:
["preservation planning", "preservation action", "wordstar", "html", "significant properties", "acceptable change", "converters"]

links:
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creators: ["Eld Zierau", "Nancy McGovern"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Supporting the Analysis and Audit of Collaborative OAIS’s Using an Outer OAIS-Inner OAIS (OO-IO) Model

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/supporting-the-analysis-and-audit-of-collaborative-oaiss-using-a/

abstract:
 This paper addresses the question: What would distributed digital preservation look like using the OAIS Reference Model? The challenge is the need for several organizations to cooperate to achieve distributed digital preservation; using replication, independence, and coordination to address the known threats to digital content through time. The main purpose of the paper is to present an Outer OAIS-Inner OAIS (OO-IO) Model that can support the analysis and audit of collaborative interactions between multiple OAIS’s to enable distributed digital preservation. The paper provides extensive explanations and diagrams to demonstrate the ability of the OO-IO model to address distributed digital preservation conformance with the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model. It is argued that the OO-IO model contributes a necessary extension to the literature of the digital preservation community to address the analysis and audit necessary for distributed digital preservation. 

keywords:
["oais reference model", "distributed digital preservation", "standards", "audits", "analysis", "collaboration"]

links:
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creators: ["Barbara Sierman"]
type: paper
keywords: ["preservation policies", "oais", "tdr", "trac", "scape policy framework"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
The SCAPE Policy Framework, maturity levels and the need for realistic preservation policies: Paper 

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/the-scape-policy-framework-maturity-levels-and-the-need-for-real/

abstract:
A digital preservation policy is an essential document in which an organization summarizes its approaches to achieve the goals and objectives for the long term preservation of the collections in its digital archive. In this paper the reference to preservation policies in various standards is compared with a set of publicly available preservation policies, showing that there is a big gap between theory and practice. Recent work done in the European project SCAPE (http://www.scape-project.eu/) in building a Catalogue of Policy Elements could contribute to bridging this gap. The paper concludes with suggestions to further develop the practical use of preservation policies by aligning them to the maturity level of the organization. 
 

links:
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title: DRM and digital preservation: A use case at the German National Library
creators: ["Stefan Hein", "Tobias Steinke"]
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/drm-and-digital-preservation-a-use-case-at-the-german-national-l/

abstract:
Digital Rights Management (DRM) is in use for many digital publications. Digital libraries with a mandate to collect and preserve publications have to deal with technical challenges for preservation of DRM restricted objects. In the European project APARSEN a systematical classification of DRM methods and its risks for digital preservation was introduced. The German National Library handles the different types of DRM protections within the ingest workflow of the archival system by analysis and case-by-case distinction. 

keywords:
["digital rights management", "digital preservation", "deutsche nationalbibliothek", "aparsen", "ingest level"]

links:
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title: Preserving Data to Preserving Research: Curation of Process and Context
type: workshops and tutorials
keywords: ["e-science", "data preservation", "workflows", "semantics", "research objects", "context models"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/preserving-data-to-preserving-research-curation-of-process-and-c/

creators:
["Angela Dappert", "Rudolf Mayer", "Stefan Pröll", "Andreas Rauber", "Kevin Page", "Raul Palma", "Daniel Garijo"]

abstract:
Awareness of the need to provide digital preservation solutions is spreading from the core memory institutions to other domains, including government, industry, SME and consumers. In many of these settings we are, however, faced with preserving more than just data. In the domain of eScience, for example, investigations are increasingly collaborative. Most scientific and engineering domains benefit from building on the outputs of other research by sharing information to reason over and data to incorporate in the modeling task at hand.

This raises the need for preserving and sharing entire eScience workflows and processes for later reuse. We need to define which information is to be collected, create means to preserve it and approaches to enable and validate the re-execution of a preserved process. This includes and goes beyond preserving the data used in the experiments, as the process underlying its creation and use is essential.

The TIMBUS project and Wf4Ever project team up for this halfday tutorial to provide an introduction to the problem domain and discuss solutions for the curation of eScience processes. 

links:
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title: ICA-AtoM, Archivematica and Digital Preservation
creators: ["Lise Summers", "Meg Travers"]
type: workshops and tutorials
keywords: ["government business systems"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/ica-atom-archivematica-and-digital-preservation/

abstract:
ICA-AtoM is an open source, web-based archival description software application that is based on International Council on Archives standards. The first version of it was released in 2008 with funding from a variety of organisations including UNESCO, World Bank Group Archives, the Dutch Archiefschool, the Direction des Archives de France and the United Arab Emirates Centre for Documentation and Research. In 2013, the State Records Office of Western Australia (SROWA) has invested in further development of the software, chiefly to include support for the Australian Series Registration System as well as simple preservation workflow. These additions to ICA-AtoM will be completed in the middle of 2014 and made freely available as part of the open source package to any archives wishing to download the software.

This work has aligned the Australian Series Registration System within an international standard ISAD compliant system, and will go some way to eventually bringing the two together. This workshop will provide an overview of using ICA AtoM with special attention to archival description using the Australian Series Registration System; ingest into the complementary Archivematica digital preservation system and attaching digital objects to AtoM.

The workshop is open to the public. 

links:
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creators: ["João da Silva", "João Castro", "Cristina Ribeiro", "João Lopes"]
type: paper
keywords: ["research data management", "data curation", "ontologies", "data repositories", "dendro"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
The Dendro research data management platform: Applying ontologies to long-term preservation in a collaborative environment

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/the-dendro-research-data-management-platform-applying-ontologies/

abstract:
It has been shown that data management should start as early as possible in the research workflow to minimize the risks of data loss. Given the large numbers of datasets produced every day, curators may be unable to describe them all, so researchers should take an active part in the process. However, since they are not data management experts, they must be provided with user-friendly but powerful tools to capture the context information necessary for others to interpret and reuse their datasets. In this paper, we present Dendro, a fully ontology-based collaborative platform for research data management. Its graph data model innovates in the sense that it allows domain-specific lightweight ontologies to be used in resource description, acting as a staging area for later deposit in long-term preservation solutions. 

 

links:
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creators: ["Michelle Lindlar"]
type: paper
keywords: ["architectural 3d data", "building information modeling", "3d preservation", "ifc"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Building Information Modeling – A Game Changer for Interoperability and a Chance for Digital Preservation of Architectural Data?

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/building-information-modeling-a-game-changer-for-interoperabilit/

abstract:
Digital data associated with the architectural design-and construction process is an essential resource alongside -and even past- the lifecycle of the construction object it describes. Despite this, digital architectural data remains to be largely neglected in digital preservation research – and vice versa, digital preservation is so far neglected in the design-and-construction process. In the last 5 years, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has seen a growing adoption in the architecture and construction domains, marking a large step towards much needed interoperability. The open standard IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) is one way in which data is exchanged in BIM processes. This paper presents a first digital preservation based look at BIM processes, highlighting the history and adoption of the methods as well as the open file format standard IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) as one way to store and preserve BIM data. 
 

links:
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type: workshops and tutorials
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
Modelling File Formats and Technical Environments using the NSLA Digital Preservation Technical Registry (DPTR)

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/modelling-file-formats-and-technical-environments-using-the-nsla/

creators:
["Jay Gattuso", "Kevin DeVorsey", "Libor Coufal", "Ross Spencer", "Jan Hutař", "Peter McKinney", "Steve Knight"]

abstract:
This workshop introduces the work of the National and State Libraries funded work on a Digital Preservation Technical Registry. In particular it will allow participants to gain an understanding of the new model for modelling formats. They will be tasked with working through exercises designed not only to give participants an understanding of the model, but to test and critique it. 

keywords:
["technical registry", "models", "file formats", "hardware", "software", "community", "collaboration"]

links:
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title: Born Digital Appraisal, Ingest, and Processing
type: workshops and tutorials
keywords: ["born digital", "digital archivists", "appraisal", "ingest workflows"]
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/born-digital-appraisal-ingest-and-processing/

creators:
["Jessica Moran", "Erin O'Meara", "Leigh Rosin", "Douglas Elford", "Emma Jolly", "Somaya Langley", "Donald Mennerich", "Christopher Lee"]

abstract:
This workshop is designed to gather together the community of digital archivists and others working specifically with born digital collections to discuss aspects of the appraisal, processing, and ingest process. 

links:
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title: A Data-Geek’s Perspective on iPres 2014: Closing Remarks
creators: ["Andrew Treloar"]
abstract: Closing Remarks of the iPRES 2014 Conference.
type: paper
license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
date: 2014-09-01T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2014"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2014/papers/a-data-geeks-perspective-on-ipres-2014-closing-remarks/

links:
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title: PREMIS IMPLEMENTATION FAIR WORKSHOP: Exchanging Experiences using PREMIS
creators: ["Micky Lindlar", "Karin Bredenberg", "Sarah Romkey", "Marjolein Steeman"]
type: paper
keywords: ["premis", "preservation", "metadata", "preservation metadata"]
license: CC-BY 4.0 International
date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2023"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2023/papers/premis-implementation-fair-workshop-exchanging-experiences-using/

abstract:
This workshop functions as a meeting ground for PREMIS practitioners, researchers, and curious onlookers. As opposed to PREMIS tutorials, which focus on introducing the data model and data dictionary, the PREMIS Implementation Fair focuses on work currently undertaken by the Editorial Committee as well as on real-world implementations, projects and open questions that the digital preservation community has around preservation metadata.

links:
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title: SERVER-SIDE WEB ARCHIVING USING REPROZIP-WEB
creators: ["Katherine Boss", "Ilya Kreymer", "Vicky Rampin", "Rémi Rampin"]
type: paper
keywords: ["dynamic web archiving", "server-side web archiving", "reprozip-web", "webrecorder"]
license: CC-BY 4.0 International
date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2023"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2023/papers/server-side-web-archiving-using-reprozip-web/

abstract:
Current client-side, or “static,” web archiving crawlers have been tremendously successful in capturing and archiving millions of pages of the internet. Unfortunately, over the decades the web has evolved beyond the reach of many of these crawlers, and today’s static crawlers fail to capture the look, feel, and functionality of a significant amount of interactive web content, including maps, visualizations, database-reliant projects and social media feeds. Archiving these dynamic websites requires a different approach, including a server- side web archiving option.
ReproZip-Web is an open source, grant-funded [1] web-archiving tool that can address this need. It builds on the high-fidelity crawling tools of Webrecorder by also encapsulating a dynamic web server software and its dependencies. The output is a self-contained, isolated, and preservation-ready bundle, an .rpz file, with all the information needed to replay a website, including the source code, the computational environment (e.g., the operating system, software libraries) and the files used by the app (e.g. data, static files). Its lightweight nature makes it ideal for distribution and preservation.
This interactive workshop will be particularly useful for web archivists, digital archivists, digital humanities scholars and others seeking to archive and preserve
complex web projects. Attendees, who should be familiar with the command line interface, will practice packing and tracing a web application and recording the front-end of the site using ReproZip-Web. They will then be able to test replaying the site from the newly created and preservable .rpz file.

links:
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title: PRESERVING EMAIL ATTACHMENTS WITH ATTACHMENT CONVERTER
creators: ["Matt Teichman", "Ashley Gosselar", "Obi Obetta", "Nishchay Karle"]
type: paper
keywords: ["email", "mime", "attachment", "digital preservation", "digital formats"]
license: CC-BY 4.0 International
date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2023"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2023/papers/preserving-email-attachments-with-attachment-converter/

links:
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title: STORAGE AND STANDARDS: Shaping Version 4 of the DP Storage Criteria
creators: ["Andrea Goethals", "Cynthia Wu", "Eld Zierau", "Sibyl Schaefer", "Nancy McGovern"]
type: paper
keywords: ["preservation storage", "standards"]
license: CC-BY 4.0 International
date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2023"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2023/papers/storage-and-standards-shaping-version-4-of-the-dp-storage-criter/

abstract:
The Digital Preservation Storage Criteria (“Criteria”) are designed to provide community guidance for organizations that either use or provide digital preservation storage. Currently on its fourth iteration, the Criteria have been mapped to relevant information security and digital preservation standards such as ISO 14721 (OAIS) and ISO 16363 (Audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories). This standards mapping exercise has led to many changes in the Criteria. The authors propose a workshop to get feedback from participants on key elements of the draft fourth version of the Digital Preservation Storage Criteria (“Criteria”). 
This workshop will provide participants with an introduction to the Criteria and then will lead the participants in group exercises designed to test the assumptions and work behind draft version 4 of the Criteria. The expected outcomes are a deeper understanding of considerations for digital preservation storage by the participants, and feedback to the Criteria working group on draft version 4 before it is published after the conference.

links:
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title: CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT TOOLS FOR DEVELOPING CAPACITY AND SKILLS: A Tutorial
creators: ["Sharon McMeekin", "Jenny Mitcham", "Amy Currie"]
type: paper
keywords: ["maturity modelling", "skills", "good practice", "continuous development", "benchmarking"]
license: CC-BY 4.0 International
date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2023"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2023/papers/continuous-improvement-tools-for-developing-capacity-and-skills/

abstract:
The ability to apply a carefully considered and well implemented approach to continuous improvement of digital preservation capabilities can greatly benefit practitioners when looking to set and achieve objectives. This tutorial aims to provide attendees with the skills and tools to develop and implement a methodology for continuous improvement at their organization using resources developed by the Digital Preservation Coalition. This will include assessing maturity with the Rapid Assessment Model and auditing skills with the Competency Framework and Audit Toolkit.

links:
{"citation_public_url": "https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121055", "citation_pdf_url": "https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/128259/bitstreams/428883/data.pdf"}


title: UNDERSTANDING AND IMPLEMENTING METS: A tutorial focused on METS 2
creators: ["Karin Bredenberg", "Aaron Elkiss", "Juha Lehtonen"]
type: paper
license: CC-BY 4.0 International
date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2023"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2023/papers/understanding-and-implementing-mets-a-tutorial-focused-on-mets-2/

abstract:
This half day tutorial will provide participants with an introduction to the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) starting in METS version 1 and the METS Primer [1], but focusing on METS version 2. It will give a basic overview of METS and explore different models of implementation. The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library as well as digital archives, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium. It is maintained by the METS Editorial Board, and the METS Maintenance Activity is managed by the Library of Congress [2].

keywords:
["metadata and information strategies and workflows", "infrastructure, systems, and tools", "case studies, best practices and novel challenges", "training and education for a new version"]

links:
{"citation_public_url": "https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121056", "citation_pdf_url": "https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/128260/bitstreams/428885/data.pdf"}


title: TUTORIAL: UP AND RUNNING WITH ARK PERSISTABLE IDENTIFIERS
creators: ["John Kunze", "Donny Winston"]
type: paper
keywords: ["persistent identifier", "open access", "url", "uri"]
license: CC-BY 4.0 International
date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2023"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2023/papers/tutorial-up-and-running-with-ark-persistable-identifiers/

abstract:
This half-day (3-hour) tutorial is a pragmatic introduction to the Archival Resource Key (ARK), a 22-year-old, non-paywalled identifier scheme that is widely used for persistent access to cultural and scientific information. By the end of the tutorial, attendees will know when this highly flexible scheme is appropriate to use and how to create ARKs for their respective memory organizations. No prior experience is required.

links:
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title: HOW TO PRESERVE RESEARCH DATASETS: LABDRIVE Tutorial
creators: ["Antonio Guillermo Martinez", "Maria Fuertes"]
type: paper
keywords: ["research data management", "digital preservation", "software"]
license: CC-BY 4.0 International
date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2023"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2023/papers/how-to-preserve-research-datasets-labdrive-tutorial/

abstract:
LABDRIVE is a Research Data Management and Digital Preservation platform that allows organizations to capture the research data they produce, helping them to properly manage, preserve and allow access to it, during the whole research data lifecycle, unifying and simplifying their research data management strategies.
The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce the design principles of LABDRIVE as well as explain how it works through a tutorial (a guided demonstration).

links:
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creators: ["Arran Griffith", "Dan Field"]
type: paper
keywords: ["fedora", "repository", "open source", "migrations"]
license: CC-BY 4.0 International
date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2023"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
THIS IS FEDORA 6.X: Understanding the Oxford Common File Layout, Intro to Migration Tools and Understanding Community Developed Integrations

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2023/papers/this-is-fedora-6-x-understanding-the-oxford-common-file-layout-i/

abstract:
Fedora 6.x is the newest, most modern version of the software, representing a significant change in the preservation standards and backend infrastructure from previous versions. This modernization of the software provides users a more robust preservation platform, while giving the community back the data transparency they appreciated from Fedora 3. This workshop will provide participants with the ability to work directly with the newest version of Fedora through hands-on exercises as well as learning about the Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) and it’s role in digital preservation within a Fedora ecosystem. We will complete a sample migration using the Migration Toolkit, a series of instructional modules created from an IMLS grant-funded project, and gain experience working with the migration utility and validator tools. Lastly we will explore several community-developed integrations that allow for additional functionality and visibility into the contents within a Fedora repository.
This workshop is intended to provide participants an opportunity to work directly with the software, understand it’s preservation features and become familiar with the recently developed tools for migrating from Fedora 3.x to 6.x.

links:
{"citation_public_url": "https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121059", "citation_pdf_url": "https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/128263/bitstreams/428891/data.pdf"}


creators: ["Maureen Kenga"]
type: paper
keywords: ["digital accessibility", "indigenous agricultural knowledge"]
license: CC-BY 4.0 International
date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2023"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
DIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY, INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY: Digitization of Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge in Shaping Food Security across the Kenyan Coastal Region

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2023/papers/digital-accessibility-inclusion-and-diversity-digitization-of-in/

abstract:
According to Gilman (1917), food problem is related to three questions: First, “how to produce the most food with the least cost in time, labor and money,” second, how to swiftly, efficiently and economically distribute it to consumers, and, third, how to prepare and serve healthy food, without spending too much money, time, and effort. Since then, considerable progress has been made in improving food supply and facilitating meal preparation. This paper looks at the importance of digitizing the indigenous farming methods that can be incorporated with the emerging trends in present agriculture playing a significant role in ensuring food security. This paper is submitted to iPRESS 2023 as a poster aimed at improving indigenous agricultural knowledge with a base for new capabilities in providing solutions matters food security

links:
{"citation_public_url": "https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121060", "citation_pdf_url": "https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/128264/bitstreams/428893/data.pdf"}


creators: ["Paul Stokes", "Karen Colbron"]
type: paper
keywords: ["dynamic purchasing system", "jisc", "procurement"]
license: CC-BY 4.0 International
date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2023"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
title:
THE WHAT, WHY AND HOW OF A DIGITAL PRESERVATION DPS: The process by which a Dynamic Purchasing System for Digital Preservation service may (or may not) be adopted

url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2023/papers/the-what-why-and-how-of-a-digital-preservation-dps-the-process-b/

abstract:
Jisc are considering implementing a Dynamic Purchasing system for members to use when procuring a Digital Preservation System. This poster shows what a DPS is and the process we’re undergoing to decide if we will provide a DPS. In effect, how we’re building a robust business case to provide a DPS for our members.

links:
{"citation_public_url": "https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121062", "citation_pdf_url": "https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/128266/bitstreams/428895/data.pdf"}


title: GIVING ACCESS TO BORN-DIGITAL ARCHIVES AT THE ARCHIVES NATIONALES (FRANCE): The OeDIPus riddle
creators: ["Emeline Levasseur", "André Falut", "Julien Fenech", "Matias Ferrera"]
type: paper
keywords: ["access", "dip", "integrity", "fixity", "checksum"]
license: CC-BY 4.0 International
date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2023"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2023/papers/giving-access-to-born-digital-archives-at-the-archives-nationale/

abstract:
Born-digital archives, managed in a repository, are accessible thanks to the delivery of Dissemination Information Packages (DIP). While the DIP is a machine-readable format, it is not easily intelligible for the end user. In practice, making DIP truly accessible appears like a riddle. To make it more human-readable, a DIP must undergo some processing outside the repository and be converted in a new form, which should be discussed. These operations call into question the integrity of the archives, which was ensured until their delivery by the system. How, then, can archivists keep data trustworthy? Following recent requests for access, the Archives nationales (France) have provided some answers that could be used as a basis for discussion to solve this OeDIPus riddle. Their experience was one of moving from theory to practice, leading to the creation of an in-house proof-of-concept (POC) and tool: OE-DIP (Objets et Empreintes de DIP, Objects and Checksums of DIP).

links:
{"citation_public_url": "https://hdl.handle.net/2142/121063", "citation_pdf_url": "https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/128267/bitstreams/428899/data.pdf"}


title: ESTABLISHING AN OPEN-SOURCE PACKAGE “ARCHIVE"
creators: ["Euan Cochrane", "Rafael Gieschke"]
type: paper
keywords: ["emulation", "software preservation", "open-source"]
license: CC-BY 4.0 International
date: 2023-09-22T00:00:00
metadata: {"citation_conference_title": "iPRES 2023"}
language: en
source: iPRES Proceedings
source_url: https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/
url:
https://www.digipres.org/publications/ipres/ipres-2023/papers/establishing-an-open-source-package-archive/

abstract:
Many Linux-based operating systems use a package management system that enables users to install a wide range of applications using one or more simple workflows, without needing to find and download the applications from their original publishers. The package management systems also resolve dependencies for users by finding and installing any dependent-applications or “packages” that are needed in order to run the application that the user is trying to install.  These workflows greatly improve the experience of working with the operating systems and save a great deal of time for the end-users. When setting up the Emulation as a Service Infrastructure (EaaSI) platform to work with Linux-based operating systems we have encountered a number of issues when working with the operating systems’ built-in Package Management Systems (PKMS). The PKMSs usually include a list of servers that host the packages that the PKMS can install for the user. We have found that often those lists are out-of-date and point to servers that no longer exist. In some cases, it is impossible or nearly impossible to find alternative servers that are still actively serving the packages, and where they are available the speed/bandwidth is often much slower/limited for packages for older operating system versions than it was when the operating systems were current. Even when an alternative server can be found that is still actively serving the packages for a legacy operating system, the average end-user can often struggle to understand how to point the PKMS at a custom server as this often requires editing relatively obscure configuration files within the Operating System. 
To address these issues the EaaSI program of work and Yale University Library have launched a spin-off project to create a central “archive”  of compiled, open-source software packages. The “archive” will host copies of packages for many versions of legacy operating systems and make them freely available to any users, whether working with EaaSI or using the legacy operating systems in other contexts. The archive is hosted directly on a public S3-compatible bucket without an additional frontend server to improve availability, reduce maintainability, allow for practically limitless scaling, and enable users to easily explore and clone its contents (or parts thereof). In addition, the EaaSI software is being updated to enable instance administrators to configure the platform to automatically re-route connections being made to the package servers configured as defaults in legacy Linux-based operating systems and dynamically and seamlessly re-map the connections to the appropriate locations in the new package “archive”. This is achieved either by automatically manipulating the DKMS’s configuration files or by transparently routing network requests to the originally configured domain to an emulated version of the DKMS’s server in a virtual network running in EaaSI.
Unlike Software Heritage [1], the world’s preeminent archive of software source code, this project aims to primarily maintain an archive of compiled binaries and not the application source code. While there are some operating systems that use a PKMS that dynamically compiles from source code when installing applications, these are rare  and we are comfortable with the possibility of overlapping with the work of the software heritage team in this limited area. 
There is a wide scope of future work for this project. In spite of being comfortable mildly overlapping on the work of the Software Heritage team, we are also interested in potentially creating reproducible builds of the packages in our “archive” within the EaaSI platform, using source code Sourced from Software Heritage. Doing the compilation from source within the EaaSI platform would provide an audit trail to further strengthen the trustworthiness of the packages provided in our “archive”.
Another future extension will be enabling sourcing packages from multiple sources, so that users can use one URL for any version of the same operating system, even if the packages were originally collected from different origin servers by our project. Here, a useful addition could be to seamlessly provide provenance information in S3 for individual packages, i.e., individual files in a directory sourced from multiple different origins.
In the regular use and development of repositories used by PKMSs the specific versions of the packages supplied by the repository are regularly updated and changed. IT is conceivable that users of our archive would need access to a specific version of a package, something that might not be possible if we only included the last version made available in the original repository. Therefore, a further (but much more elaborate) future extension could be to include different versions of the same package, a service offered for Debian at https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Further developments could include archiving the repositories of other package managers used in non-operating system contexts, e.g., PKMSs used for acquiring libraries for programming languages, for example., the Python Package Index (PyPI), Node.js’ npm, or various Docker registries (e.g., DockerHub, GitHub Container Registry). Here, a particular focus could be on providing time-travel functionality (as offered by snapshot.debian.org) as software projects often do not fully specify their required library versions (e.g., by only specifying a minimum version instead of an exact version) and do not work anymore when newer versions of their required libraries become available at a later time and are selected by the package manager. Here, a bigger focus would probably be on the integration into the system than on duplicating the archive.

In this poster, we will provide a visual overview of the plans outlined in this extended abstract and hope to use it to raise awareness of the “archive” in order to ensure extensive use of it once it is available.

links:
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