title: Embedding Legacy Environments into A Grid-Based Preservation Infrastructure
creators: Claus-Peter Klas Matthias Hemmje Lars Müller Holger Brocks
abstract: The SHAMAN project targets a framework integrating advances in the data grid, digital library, and persistent archival communities in order to archive a long-term preservation environment. Within the project we identified several challenges for digital preservation in the area of memory institutions, where already existing systems start to struggle with e.g. complex or many small objects. In order to overcome these, we propose a grid based framework for digital preservation. In this paper we describe the main objectives of the project SHAMAN and the identified challenges for such a heterogeneous and distributed environment. We on the one hand assess in a bottom-up approach the capabilities and interfaces of legacy systems and on the other hand derive requirements based on the project’s objectives. Our investigation is focused to the integration of storage infrastructures and distributed data management. In the end we derive a service-oriented architecture with a grid-based integration layer as an initial approach to manage the challenges.
keywords: london