Emulation-as-a-Service - The Past in the Cloud

Liebetraut, Thomas; Rechert, Klaus; Valizada, Isgandar; Meier, Kurt; Suchodoletz, Dirk von

doi:10.1109/cloud.2014.124

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“…All EMiL components can be deployed independently. Depending on specific use case or institutional requirements, the EMiL framework can be deployed either as a ‘live’ system on a USB stick (Espenschied et al, 2016), as a self-contained desktop application, within a local compute cluster or in a public compute Cloud (Liebetraut et al, 2014).…”

Section: General Emil Architecturementioning

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The RESTful EMiL

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Emulation of Multimedia objects in Libraries (EMiL) is a web-based emulation service environment for library reading rooms that addresses the challenges of accessing large born-digital collections. In particular, we present an automated process to gather technical metadata necessary to initiate an emulation session that renders a user-chosen object as well as a technical design that allows a seamless integration into existing web-based catalogues. The primary focus is on providing access to multimedia CD-ROMs of the 1990s and 2000s, but the EMiL system is designed to be used with other digital collections as well.

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The RESTful EMiL

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“…A decision tree (Figure 2) was produced, which differentiated between content types in order to inform selection of an initial approach for testing in the lab, either emulation or migration. For emulation, the project team tested Emulation as a Service (EaaS) from the University of Freiburg (Liebetraut et al, 2014; Suchodoletz et al, 2013) alongside a small number of existing emulators freely available online. For migration, software was selected as appropriate to the content type and original format of each title.…”

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The preservation of disk-based content at the British Library

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This article introduces the British Library’s Flashback project, which is exploring the practical challenges of preserving digital content currently stored on physical media (magnetic and optical disks). It reports on a Flashback proof of concept that conducted experiments on a sample of content from hybrid collection items dating from between 1980 and 2000. It describes some of the activities undertaken by the proof-of-concept stage of the project from July 2015 to February 2016, including the initial collection profiling and sampling of content, the extraction of content from the disks, and the project team’s experiments with identifying and applying preservation approaches to the content, which included both emulation and migration. It concludes with some general observations on the approaches taken by the proof of concept and shares some recent findings from the second phase of the project, which is concerned with the practical challenges of developing an implementation strategy for the Library’s capture and preservation of digital content currently stored on physical media.

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