Distributed Preservation Services: Integrating Planning and Actions

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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ERCIMDL
• Authors: Christoph Becker, Miguel Ferreira, Michael Kraxner, Andreas Rauber, Ana Alice Baptista, José Carlos Ramalho
• Keywords: Digital Preservation, Education, ERCIMDL 2008, Preservation Planning, Preservation Planning Environment