Continuous activities such as preservation monitoring, planning and operations, including the provisioning of access mechanisms or the creation of derivatives through migration, are needed to enable continuous access to content across evolving technological contexts without affecting the authenticity of digital objects. This article describes the SCAPE preservation suite, a loosely coupled set of systems and op...
Preservation environments such as repositories need scalable and context-aware preservation planning and monitoring capabilities to ensure continued accessibility of content over time. This article identifies a number of gaps in the systems and mechanisms currently available and presents a new, innovative architecture for scalable decision-making and control in such environments.
Increasingly, content owners are operating repositories with large, heterogeneous collections. The responsibility to pro- vide access to these collections on the long term requires preservation processes such as planning, monitoring, and actual preservation operations such as migration and quality assurance, which have to be managed and integrated with the repositories. This article presents a suite of systems ...
To accomplish effective digital preservation, repositories need to be able to incorporate processes such as planning, monitoring and preservation operations. These processes feed into each other and create a continuous cycle that allows a repository to detect opportunities and risks and act accordingly. Each of these digital preservation processes have already been extensively studied and tools to support each ...
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 associ- ated risks and opportunities. This requires linking a number of diverse information sources and specifying complex con- ditions. For example, the content to be preserved ...
The SCAPE project is set to advance the planning and control of preservation operations from ad-hoc decision making to a continuous management activity. This document lays out a key component for this improvement. In Automated Watch, the project will provide automated mechanisms to support the monitoring and evolution of preservation plans over the lifecycle of digital content and react to a dynamically changin...
Successful preservation of content requires sophisticated mechanisms for collecting, tracking and analyzing information about a multitude of relevant aspects. This is not limited to content itself, but also tracking of available software, other organization’s content, usage statistics and trends, format risks, systems operations and many more. Such tracking requires a flexible system that supports evolution ove...
A preservation action is a concrete action, usually implemented by a software tool, that is performed on digital content in order to achieve some preservation goal. The execution of a preservation action has the purpose of supporting the continuous access to content or to make sure that digital preservation is being carried out effectively (Ferreira, Baptista, & Ramalho, 2006). For example, a migration of conte...
Digital preservation has turned into an active field of research. The most prominent approaches today are migration and emulation; especially considering migration, a range of working tools is available, each with specific strengths and weaknesses. The decision process on which actions to take to preserve a given set of digital ob jects for future access, i.e., preservation planning, is usually an ad-hoc proced...