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 approach to accessing product data across system and software revisions
Advanced Engineering Informatics
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
Rule-based curation and preservation of data: A data grid approach using iRODS
Future Generation Computer Systems
ICWE '9 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Engineering
PreScan: towards automating the preservation of digital objects
Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
Information and Software Technology
Peserving interactive multimedia art: a case study in preservation planning
ICADL'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Asian digital libraries: looking back 10 years and forging new frontiers
ECDL'09 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
A mathematical framework for modeling and analyzing migration time
Proceedings of the 10th annual joint conference on Digital libraries
Automating logical preservation for small institutions with Hoppla
ECDL'10 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
Digital preservation: the multimedia standards way
Proceedings of the 1st International Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework Symposium
Using a multi-criteria decision making approach to evaluate format migration solutions
Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
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To date, long-term preservation approaches have comprised of emulation, migration, normalization, and metadata – or some combination of these. Most existing work has focussed on applying these approaches to digital objects of a singular media type: text, HTML, images, video or audio. In this paper, we consider the preservation of composite, mixed-media digital objects, a rapidly growing class of resources. We describe an integrated, flexible system that we have developed, which leverages existing tools and services and assists organizations to dynamically discover the optimum preservation strategy as it is required. The system captures and periodically compares preservation metadata with software and format registries to determine those objects (or sub-objects) at risk. By making preservation software modules available as Web services and describing them semantically using a machine-processable ontology (OWL-S), the most appropriate preservation service(s) for each object (or sub-object) can then be dynamically discovered, composed and invoked by software agents (with optional human input at critical decision-making steps). The PANIC system successfully illustrates how the growing array of available preservation tools and services can be integrated to provide a sustainable, collaborative solution to the long-term preservation of large-scale collections of complex digital objects.