PRONOM-ROAR: Adding Format Profiles to a Repository Registry to Inform Preservation Services

Brody, Tim; Carr, Leslie; Hey, Jessie M.N.; Brown, Adrian; Hitchcock, Steve

doi:10.2218/ijdc.v2i2.25

Cited by 14 publications

(11 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…To re-enact a digital object in its original systemenvironment a number of additional components and configurations are required. A classic method to discover a digital object's runtime dependencies is querying a file-type database like PRO-NOM [4]. Several tools have been proposed to resolve software dependencies.…”

Section: System-environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

bwFLA – A Functional Approach to Digital Preservation

Rechert

Valizada

Suchodoletz

et al. 2012

PIK - Praxis Der Informationsverarbeitung Und Kommunikation

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Emulation evolves into a mature digital preservation strategy, providing authentic functional access to a wide range of digital objects, using their original creation environments. In contrast to format migration strategies a functional, emulation-based approach requires a number of additional components, i.e. the full softwarestack required to render a digital object but also its configuration. The goal of the bwFLA project is the implementation and development of a distributed framework for emulation-based services and technologies to address Baden-Württemberg state and higher education institutes' libraries' and archives' new challenges in digital long-term preservation.The Baden-Württemberg Functional Long-Term Archiving and Access (bwFLA) 1 is a two-year state sponsored project transporting the results of past and ongoing digital preservation research into practitioners communities. Primarily, bwFLA creates tools and workflows to ensure long-term access to digital cultural and scientific assets held by the state's university libraries and archives. The project consortium brings together partners across the state, involving people from university libraries computing centers, libraries and archives, providing a broad range of background and insights into the digital preservation landscape.The project builds on existing digital preservation knowledge by integrating and extending established preservation frameworks. It will define and provide a practical implementation of archival workflows to re-enact digital objects in their original environment (e.g. creation application) where suitable migration strategies are unavailable, for instance, interactive objects, software, scientific toolchains and databases, but also digital art.

show abstract

Section: System-environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

bwFLA – A Functional Approach to Digital Preservation

Rechert

Valizada

Suchodoletz

et al. 2012

PIK - Praxis Der Informationsverarbeitung Und Kommunikation

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Collection profiling services build upon characterisation tools, such as DROID, and registries, e.g. PRONOM [3], to create profiles of repository collections.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several tools exist to correctly identify the MIME type from an object, along with a wealth of characterisation tools that provide more detailed information, such as the aforementioned DROID Digital Record Object Identification tool in combination with registries such as PRONOM [3].…”

Section: Object Type Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interacting with (semi-) automatically extracted context of digital objects

Mayer

Neumayer

Rauber

2009

Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Context, Information and Ontologies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The context in which digital objects are created, modified, or used is essential for the interpretation of information entities, for retrieval settings, for establishing their authenticity, as well as ensuring appropriate use. Therefore, determining this context of creation and use of digital objects is an essential task for many areas and applications, from (huge) digital library settings to end-user applications such as search. However, context is notoriously difficult and laboursome to establish and document, and when it has to be entered and maintained manually by the creator of the digital objects, it is often missing or partially incomplete or incorrect. Thus, this paper proposes an approach to (semi-) automatically determine the context of creation and usage of digital objects. Various facets of context along different dimensions are automatically detected, and are combined in pivot-table inspired views, at multiple levels of granularity, which then allow the extraction of the most appropriate connections to other digital objects. Finally, this contact can be used for a range of applications, such as search and navigation.

show abstract

“…Format registries such as PRONOM [4] or the Global Digital Format Registry (GDFR) partly cover this need.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Examples of objective trees are presented in [1,14]. As the trees are often created in workshop settings where mind-mapping can be very helpful, the software can directly import trees created in mind-mapping software 4 . Figure 3 shows the tree in both the mind-mapping software and imported into Plato.…”

Section: Plato: Preservation Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Distributed Preservation Services: Integrating Planning and Actions

Becker

Ferreira

Kraxner

et al. 2008

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract. 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.

show abstract

PRONOM-ROAR: Adding Format Profiles to a Repository Registry to Inform Preservation Services

Cited by 14 publications

References 0 publications

bwFLA – A Functional Approach to Digital Preservation

bwFLA – A Functional Approach to Digital Preservation

Interacting with (semi-) automatically extracted context of digital objects

Distributed Preservation Services: Integrating Planning and Actions

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About