A brief introduction to the SCAPE project co-funded by the European Union under the FP7 ICT program. A blog post leading you through the presentation can be found here: http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2012-12-10-scape-project-%E2%80%93-brief-introduction

1. General introduction to the project and its goals
www.scape-project.eu
SCAPE
Scalable Preservation Environments

2. 2This work was partially supported by the SCAPE Project.
The SCAPE project is co‐funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT‐2009.4.1(Grant Agreement number 270137).
What is SCAPE developing?
• Scalable services for
• efficient and automated preservation planning;
• execution of preservation actions of large (multi-Terabyte)
and complex data sets.
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SCAPE – what is it about?
Long term digital preservation of large-scale and
heterogeneous collections of digital-objects

3. The SCAPE Consortium brings together a broad spectrum
of expertise from
More about the SCAPE partners.
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Introducing SCAPE
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Memory institutions
Data centres
Research labs
Universities
Industrial firms

4. • SCAPE is enhancing the state-of-the-art of long-term
digital preservation in terms of
Read more about the SCAPE objectives.
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SCAPE’s contribution to digital preservation
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The SCAPE project is co‐funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT‐2009.4.1(Grant Agreement number 270137).
Scalability of
preservation actions
Automation and
Quality Assurance of
scalable preservation
workflows
Preservation Planning
driven by institutional
policies
Preservation activities must become more scalable and automated
The volume of digital content worldwide is increasing exponentially

5. • SCAPE results will enable organisations to:
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Benefits for Content Holders
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The SCAPE project is co‐funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT‐2009.4.1(Grant Agreement number 270137).
Keep pace with the rapid growth of digital collections
Help ensure that their preservation actions have been effective
Fulfill their increasing regulatory obligations
Reduce the risks to their digital material

6. Preservation Components
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Overview: SCAPE Components
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Overview: SCAPE Components
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The SCAPE project is co‐funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT‐2009.4.1(Grant Agreement number 270137).
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The SCAPE Testbeds are the
primary driver of the rest of
the project in that they
determine the use case
scenarios, define the
preservation workflows, and
evaluate the platform.
Preservation Components

8. • The SCAPE Testbeds define preservation issues with a
special focus on three application areas:
Read more about the SCAPE Scenarios.
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The Testbeds
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The SCAPE project is co‐funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT‐2009.4.1(Grant Agreement number 270137).

9. Platform
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Overview: SCAPE Components
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The SCAPE project is co‐funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT‐2009.4.1(Grant Agreement number 270137).
The SCAPE Platform is a reference
architecture for scalable preservation
environments.

10. • The SCAPE Platform is an extensible infrastructure that:
Read more about the SCAPE Platform.
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The SCAPE Platform
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The SCAPE project is co‐funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT‐2009.4.1(Grant Agreement number 270137).
Provides reliable storage of voluminous data
objects and records
Supports the parallel execution of preservation
tools and workflows close to the data
Provides a scalable backend which can be
attached to different data management systems

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Overview: SCAPE Components
This work was partially supported by the SCAPE Project.
The SCAPE project is co‐funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT‐2009.4.1 (Grant Agreement number 270137).
The SCAPE Preservation Components
are tools which enhance the
functionality of a digital preservation
system in:
• scalability
• functional coverage
• quality
Preservation Components

12. More about Jpylyzer, xcorrSound, and C3PO.
Jpylyzer
• QA tool for validation
of images in JPEG
2000 format (JP2):
• Validation against
the JP2 format
specifications, which
ensures that images
are standards
compliant
• Extracted image and
encoding properties
can be validated
against an institute-
specific profile
xcorrSound package
• QA tools for
comparison of audio
files:
• Overlap-analysis:
detects overlaps
between two audio
files
• Sound-match: finds
occurrences of
shorter WAV files
within larger ones;
• Waveform-
compare: analyses
audio files for
similarity.
C3PO
• Content profiling tool
for preservation
analysis:
• Processes FITS (or
TIKA) meta data files
and generates a
profile of the
content set in an
automated fashion
• With the Web App
you can visualise,
filter, and export the
data
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Preservation Components, e.g.
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The SCAPE project is co‐funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT‐2009.4.1(Grant Agreement number 270137).

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Planning&
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Overview: SCAPE Components
This work was partially supported by the SCAPE Project.
The SCAPE project is co‐funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT‐2009.4.1(Grant Agreement number 270137).
Preservation Components
The SCAPE Planning and
Watch components
address the bottleneck
of decision processes
and processing
information required for
decision making.

14. More about SCOUT and PLATO.
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Automated Planning & Watch Components
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The SCAPE project is co‐funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT‐2009.4.1(Grant Agreement number 270137).
Automated Watch
Component (SCOUT)
• Gathers information relevant to
digital preservation activities
(e.g. from repositories, technical
registries)
• Provides an automated
monitoring system
Automated Planning
Component (building
upon PLATO)
• Supports decision makers in
producing automated
preservation plans based on
• individual digital collections
• preservation policies
• previous preservation plans
• controlled experiments
• Integrates with SCOUT and the
SCAPE repositories

15. • In future, SCAPE will
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SCAPE: Scalable Preservation Environments
This work was partially supported by the SCAPE Project.
The SCAPE project is co‐funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT‐2009.4.1(Grant Agreement number 270137).
transform the manner in which content holders safeguard their
digital content;
increase confidence in the long-term accessibility and integrity of
their collections, at the European, national, and organisational
levels;
have a profound impact on the way that digital repositories are
designed and built in order to enable scalable preservation
services.

16. Website: www.scape-project.eu
Email: info@list.scape-project.eu
Twitter: @SCAPEproject, #SCAPEproject
Blog: www.openplanetsfoundation.com/projects/scape
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