A framework for distributed preservation workflows
Resource type
Conference paper (published)
Creator (person)
Schmidt, Rainer
King, Ross
Steeg, Fabian
Melms, Peter
Jackson, Andrew
Wilson, Carl
Date published
2009
Abstract
The Planets project is developing a service-oriented environment for the definition and evaluation of preservation strategies for human-centric data. It focuses on the question of logically preserving digital materials, as opposed to the physical preservation of content bit-streams. This includes the development of preservation tools for the automated characterization, migration, and comparison of different types of digital objects as well as the emulation of their original runtime environment in order to ensure long-time access and interpretability. The Planets integrated environment provides a number of end-user applications that allow data curators to execute and scientifically evaluate preservation experiments based on composable preservation services. In this paper, we focus on the middleware and programming model and show how it can be utilized in order to create complex preservation workflows.
Event title
iPRES 2009 - 6th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects
Publisher
UC Office of the President: California Digital Library
Place of publication
San Francisco, CA, USA
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