Inter-organizational document exchange: facing the conversion problem with XML
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Avoiding Technological Quicksand: Finding a Viable Technical Foundation for Digital Preservation
Avoiding Technological Quicksand: Finding a Viable Technical Foundation for Digital Preservation
How to choose a digital preservation strategy: evaluating a preservation planning procedure
Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
An intelligent decision support system for digital preservation
International Journal on Digital Libraries
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Plato: a service oriented decision support system for preservation planning
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Distributed Preservation Services: Integrating Planning and Actions
ECDL '08 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
ICWE '9 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Engineering
Significance is in the eye of the stakeholder
ECDL'09 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
A Measurement Framework for Evaluating Emulators for Digital Preservation
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Sustaining accessibility of information through digital preservation: A literature review
Journal of Information Science
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The dominance of digital objects in today's information landscape has changed the way humankind creates and exchanges information. However, it has also brought an entirely new problem: the longevity of digital objects. Due to the fast changes in technologies, digital documents have a short lifespan before they become obsolete. Digital preservation, i.e. actions to ensure longevity of digital information, thus has become a pressing challenge. Different strategies such as migration and emulation have been proposed; however, the decision between available tools for format migration is very complex. Preservation planning supports decision makers in reaching accountable decisions by evaluating potential strategies against well-defined requirements. Especially the evaluation of different migration tools for digital preservation has to rely on validating the converted objects and thus on an analysis of the logical structure and the content of documents. This paper presents the eXtensible Characterisation Languages (XCL) that support the automatic validation of document conversions and the evaluation of migration quality by hierarchically decomposing a document and representing documents from different sources in an abstract XML language. We present the context of the development of these languages and tools and describe the overall concept and features of the languages and how they can be applied to the evaluation of digital preservation solutions.