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Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services
• Ensure long-term access to Europe’s
cultural and scientific heritage − Improve decision-making about long term
preservation − Ensure long-term access to valued digital
content − Control the costs through automation,
scalable infrastructure − Ensure wide adoption across the user
community − Establish market place for preservation
services and tools
• Build practical solutions − Integrate existing expertise, designs and tools − Share and build
SCAPE
• Develop scalable services for planning and execution of preservation strategies
• Open source platform for semi-automated workflows for large-scale, heterogeneous collections of complex digital objects.
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Characterisation: describing the significant properties of digital objects in a format neutral manner Planning: It will enable organisations to build preservation plans appropriate to their preservation objectives, the characteristics of their collections, and the preservation actions that are available Action: A non-destructive action that creates new data from existing data in the archive, with the intent of preserving or increasing access to information stored in the archive. Testbed: The general goal of the Testbed subproject is to provide a dedicated research environment that allows the systematic execution of experiments by distributed actors, enabling the automated evaluation of experiment results, the reproducibility of experiments, the long-term availability of structured experiment documentation and shared access to the experiments themselves
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
The British Library
Internet Memory Foundation
Ex Libris Ltd.
Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe, Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftlich-Technische Information GmbH
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
KEEP SOLUTIONS LDA
Microsoft Research
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Open Planets Foundation
Statsbiblioteket
Science and Technologies Facilities Council
Technische Universität Berlin
Technische Universität Wien
The University of Manchester
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6
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Characterisation: describing the significant properties of digital objects in a format neutral manner Planning: It will enable organisations to build preservation plans appropriate to their preservation objectives, the characteristics of their collections, and the preservation actions that are available Action: A non-destructive action that creates new data from existing data in the archive, with the intent of preserving or increasing access to information stored in the archive. Testbed: The general goal of the Testbed subproject is to provide a dedicated research environment that allows the systematic execution of experiments by distributed actors, enabling the automated evaluation of experiment results, the reproducibility of experiments, the long-term availability of structured experiment documentation and shared access to the experiments themselves
Target formats
• OpenXML • ODF • UOF • HTML • XCDL (format
defined in PLANETS)
• WordPerfect 5 • WordPerfect 6 • DOS Word • Word 2, 6, 95 • Word 97-2003 • RTF • ODF • OpenXML
Source formats
Select documents for conversion Format identification Select converters
o Manual converter selection o Automatic converter selection
Start Conversion
Landing page Portal user/visitor External links Login
Authentication
Conversion
Ingest documents o Individual
documents o Collections
Manage collection
Ingest
Select document(s) for comparison
Select comparison operator View visual representation of
comparison
Quality Assurance (Comparison)
Analyse ingest data Analyse conversion data Analyse comparison data Generate report/log Select report/log for viewing
Reporting and analysis
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Comparison .DOCX
Format transformation
Comparison .DOCX
Format transformation
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.DOCX
Open Office MS Word
OCR Processing
Feature extraction / comparison
.ODT
Screen Print – XPS
Extendible functionality Extendible data store Scalable computation Virtualization Common platform for creating services Support for client applications on diverse computing platforms
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Illustrated use for file format migration So, what is wrong. First, our focus on traditional files may be debilitating because it may focus our attention in a wrong direction Second, this is all based on the contemporary technology that will evolve – we are subject to the same vulnerability as the media we wish to preserve, and even more than we are aware of -- because the digital is inherently about bit processing and not about bit storing. Bit storing is necessary but not sufficient for digital to be kept alive.
