Preservation and Curation in Institutional Repositories

A report on the state of the art of preservation and curation in an institutional repository context, noting areas of recent and current research and development. The document gives an overview into some of the most relevant repository models and architectures providing examples of preservation planning tools including technologies for metadata extraction and emulation. It should be of interest principally …

Digital Preservation Metadata Standards

Valuable scientific and cultural information assets are created, stored, managed, and accessed digitally, but the threat of losing them over the long term is high. Digital media are brittle and short lived. Hardware and software technology continues to evolve at a rapid rate. Changes in organisations and their cultural and financial priorities add risk to continued accessibility and long-term preservation of digital assets. Unlike print-based materials, digital …

D5.2.2. First Prototype of Open PrestoPRIME Reference Implementation

Contents: Executive Summary Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Technologies 3. P4 Implementation 4. P4 Core Components 5. P4 Web Server 6. P4 User Interface 7. External Tools 8. Installation Guide 9. Software Documentation 10. Software License 11. Demonstration of Prototype 12. Future Work 13. Conclusions 14. Glossary References A. Data Model Namespaces B. SIP examples C. DIP example D. …

D2.1.3 AV Data Model: Final Specification

Contents: Executive summary 1 Introduction 2. Working Assumptions 2.1 Use of the OAIS standard 2.2 Conclusions from D5.2.1_WD_ArchitectureDesign 3 The AV Data Model 3.1 Entities – Diagram 3.2 Entities – List 4 DNX – Rosetta Normalized XML 5 Metadata Types 6 Implementation 6.1 Technical Metadata 6.2 Descriptive Metadata Glossary References Deze PrestoPRIME deliverable specificeert het audiovisuele datamodel dat in het …

D6.3.1 Financial Models and Calculation Mechanisms

Contents: Executive Summary 1 Introduction 2 Concepts 2.1 Sustainability 2.2 Constants, and predictable changes in archive costs 2.3 Time, Risks and Dependencies 2.4 Tradeoffs between Cost, Quality, and Risk 2.5 Activity Models, Lifecycle Costing, and OAIS 3 Making Estimates 3.1 Guidance from PrestoSpace 3.2 Guidance from Other PrestoPRIME Deliverables 4 Detailed Cost Models 4.1 Life Project 4.2 Keeping Research Data …

D2.1.2 Tools for modelling and simulating migration based preservation

Contents: Scope Executive summary 1. Introduction 2. ‘The cost of compromise’ 3. Overview of the tools 4. Walkthrough of the long-term storage planning tool 5. Walkthrough of the interactive storage simulation tool 6. Parameters: What do they mean, where do they come from 7. Assumptions and simplifications 8. Implementation of the models 9. Conclusion and future developments This report describes …