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Ilaria Pescini & Walter Volpi

Regione Toscana, Italy

An Example to follow: an Infrastructure for Interoperability and

Governance in the Tuscan public System for Digital Preservation

The Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation

Preservation infrastructures:Current models and potential alternatives

Vancouver, 26 September 2012

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3.790.000 Citizens

more than 300 Public Administrations

DAX is a Territorial System

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Four Fundamentals of DAX

DAX (Digital Archive Extended) is a distribuited platform for long-

term preservation of digital archives

Characteristics and peculiarities:

1) Public government network systems

2) Unique & Shared: stores the archives of different government agencies

3) Interoperability based: makes use of close cooperation with local

institutions for public services

4) Legal interoperability: obeys with Italian and regional legislation on

digitization

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Interoperability

“Interoperability is the ability of disparate and diverse

organisations to interact towards mutually beneficial

and agreed common goals, involving the sharing of

information and knowledge between the

organisations, through the business processes they

support, by means of the exchange of data between

their respective ICT systems.”

(European Commission’s Directorate-General for Informatics)

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Interoperability: the Keywords

The practical implementation of the interoperability

requires the political context and four levels of

interoperability – legal, organisational, semantic and

technical – to be taken into account when a new public

service is established

(European Commission’s Directorate-General for Informatics)

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The Keywords of Interoperability in Tuscany

Political choices = cooperation and governance

Legal context

– 2004, n. 1 law = Community Network

– 2009, n. 54 law = DAX

Organisational context

– Community Network as a real body

Semantics

– RFC e.Toscana

– Archival guidelines

Technological sharing infrastructures

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• RTRT: Tuscan Regional Telematics Network • CART: Tuscan Regional Applicative Cooperations (the framework

for interoperability)• TIX: Tuscany Internet eXchange (the data center)

Regional Technical Interoperability

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The architecture of DAX

• Hybrid Archive Management• ISO-OAIS compliant - Long-Term Preservation• Integrated in the Tuscany Infrastructure

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Functions and Semantics in DAX

Functions Standards

Ingest OAISUNI-SInCRO

Logical Organization and Description

ISAD(G) / EADISAAR (CPF) / EAC

InterPARESPREMISMETS…......

Appraisal & Selection Italian and Tuscany guidelines

Testo

TestoRFC e.ToscanaCommunity Network Guidelines

Agreement between different Entities

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The organisational interoperability in DAX

CRCD

Responsibility Center for Digital Preservation

• specialized Team

• Definition of Meta-Information and archival Rules

• Adjustments of the System to the international Standards

• Adjustments of the System for possible Change in the Italian Legislation

• Accreditation of DAX

• Deployment Process and Activation of Organizations

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Thecnical interoperability in DAX

- Storage- Disaster Recovery- Business Continuity

- Distribution of Workload- Selected forwarding Packages- Minimization of the Use of Network- Effective Security Policy- Store Data in the Proximity of each Entry- Improvement of Fault-Tolerance

- Access with Smart Card

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The Auditing system

Organizational Infrastructure

• Organizational Infrastructure• Governance and Organizational

• Framework• Financing Sustainability• Contracts and Licences

• Digital Object Management• Preservation Planning• Information Management• Access Management

• Infrastructure and Security Risk Management

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Links:www.regione.toscana.it

www.rtrt.it

http://www.e.toscana.it/

https://www.tix.it/

http://www.cart.rete.toscana.it

http://web.rete.toscana.it/eCompliance/portale/cercaRFC

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Thank you for listening

Ilaria Pescini

ilaria.pescini@regione.toscana.it