Integrating Contemporary Content Management and Long-Term Digital Preservation: A Design Problem

Päivärinta, Tero; Westerlund, Parvaneh; Nilsson, Jørgen Fischer

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-21783-3_7

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“…The well-known benefits of component-based software design include the increased reuse of software at the component level, more flexible further development and maintenance of the component-based system, decreased production cost and shorter implementation cycles (Lau and Wang, 2007). The middleware-orientation in our design is needed to establish a hub between potentially many source systems with potentially more than one DP services (Afrasiabi Rad et al , 2014; Päivärinta et al , 2015). Such design is needed to avoid the “spaghetti” structure (Smith and McKeen, 2002) that would result from point-to-point, rigid integrations directly between many source systems and DPSs.…”

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“…Producers of digital records and preservation organizations need to co-operate for longterm digital preservation (DP), aided by tools that automatically capture metadata and support the appraisal process (Hedstrom and Jinfang, 2008). While the literature addressed the issue of pre-ingest automation a while ago, projects to develop pre-ingest tools and elements of varyingly automated solutions started to emerge not before the mid-2010s (Päivärinta et al. 2015;Kärberg, 2016;Lehtonen et al, 2017).…”

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“…That is, a DP solution should help to configure, automate, and manage digital preservation workflows in a context of potentially many-to-many integrations needed to bridge ISs producing digital content and long-term DPSs. Päivärinta et al (2015) suggested an overall conceptual model for a supporting middleware for such a context and denoted the design problem of supporting automation of information transfer from ISs to DPSs and vice versa. The objective of this research is to develop and demonstrate a workflow in such middleware for automating pre-ingest tasks in the context of (potentially) many-to-many interactions between ISs and DPSs.…”

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Towards automated pre-ingest workflow for bridging information systems and digital preservation services

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Purpose -This research aims at automating pre-ingest workflow for preserving digital content, such as records, through middleware that integrates potentially many information systems with potentially several alternative digital preservation services. Approach -Our design research approach resulted in a design for a model and component-based software for such workflow. A proof-of-concept prototype was implemented and demonstrated in context of a European research project, ForgetIT. Findings -The study identifies design issues of automated pre-ingest for digital preservation while using middleware as a design choice for this purpose. The resulting model and solution suggests functionalities and interaction patterns based on open interface protocols between the source systems of digital content, middleware, and digital preservation services. The resulting workflow automates the tasks of fetching digital objects from the source system with metadata extraction, preservation preparation, and transfer to a selected preservation service. The proofof-concept verified that the suggested model for pre-ingest workflow and the suggested component architecture was technologically implementable. Future research and development needs to include new solutions to support context-aware preservation management with increased support for configuring submission agreements as a basis for dynamic automation of pre-ingest and more automated error handling. Originality/Value -The paper addresses design issues for middleware as a design choice to support automated pre-ingest in digital preservation. The suggested middleware architecture supports many-to-many relationships between the source information systems and digital preservation services through open interface protocols, thus enabling dynamic digital preservation solutions for records management.

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