A generic XML language for characterising objects to support digital preservation
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Plato: a service oriented decision support system for preservation planning
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Plato: a preservation planning tool
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
Plato: A Preservation Planning Tool Integrating Preservation Action Services
ECDL '08 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
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
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
Using a multi-criteria decision making approach to evaluate format migration solutions
Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
Information Resources Management Journal
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This paper describes a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on Web services technology designed to assist cultural heritage institutions in the implementation of migration based preservation interventions. The proposed SOA delivers a recommendation service and a method to carry out complex format migrations. The recommendation service is supported by three evaluation components that assess the quality of every migration intervention in terms of its performance (Migration Broker), suitability of involved formats (Format Evaluator) and data loss (Object Evaluator). Throughout the paper the whole workflow between these three components is explained in detail as well as the most relevant tasks that are carried out internally in each of them. The proposed system is also able to produce preservation metadata that can be used by client institutions to document preservation interventions and retain objects’ authenticity. Although the primary goal of this SOA is the implementation of migration based preservation interventions, it can also be used for other purposes such as comparing file formats or evaluating the performance of conversion applications.