Distributed Preservation Services: Integrating Planning and Actions

  • Authors:
  • Christoph Becker;Miguel Ferreira;Michael Kraxner;Andreas Rauber;Ana Alice Baptista;José Carlos Ramalho

  • Affiliations:
  • Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria;University of Minho, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal;Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria;Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria;University of Minho, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal;University of Minho, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • ECDL '08 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

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 objects for future access, i.e., preservation planning, is usually an ad-hoc procedure with little tool support and even less support for automation.This paper presents the integration of tools and services for object migration and characterization through a service oriented architecture into a planning tool called Plato, thus creating a distributed and highly automated preservation planning environment.