The document outlines a grant agreement for the PERICLES project focused on enhancing the reuse of information throughout the content lifecycle, emphasizing digital preservation and evolving semantics. It details the development and demonstrations of various tools designed for technical appraisal and change impact analysis for complex digital objects. The project involves multiple partners and incorporates discussions and practical exercises aimed at understanding model-driven preservation in digital ecosystems.

1. GRANT AGREEMENT: 601138 | SCHEME FP7 ICT 2011.4.3
Promoting and Enhancing Reuse of Information throughout the Content Lifecycle taking account of Evolving
Semantics [Digital Preservation]
Simon Waddington (King’s College London)
Johannes Biermann, Noa Campos Lopez
(Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Technical Appraisal of Complex Digital
Objects in Evolving Environments

2.  PERICLES: " Promoting and Enhancing Reuse
of Information throughout the Content
Lifecycle taking account of Evolving
Semantics “
 EC FP7 Integrated Project, Digital Preservation
(Feb. 2013- Jan. 2017). 11 partners.

3.  Present proof-of-concept tools
◦ Technical Appraisal Tool
◦ Model Impact Change Explorer (MICE)
◦ EcoBuilder
◦ Process Compiler
 For each tool
◦ Describe background theory and scenarios in which the
tools can be applied
◦ Hands on demonstrations
◦ Feedback and potential for exploitation and further
development

4. 9am Introduction
 Welcome
 Introduction to the aims of the session
9.10am Technical appraisal and change impact analysis
 Description of the motivation for building a tool based on use cases related to
◦ Digital video
◦ Space science
 PERICLES Appraisal Tool and MICE (Model Change Impact Explorer) presentation and demonstration
9.50 am Group session 1
 Introduction and objectives
 Group discussion / tool exercise on change management tools
 Discussion
10.30 am Coffee break
10.50 am Tools to support model-driven preservation
 The background to the tools: Model-driven preservation and associated ontologies
 PERICLES EcoBuilder tool presentation and demonstration
 PERICLES Process Compiler presentation and demonstration
11.35am Group session 2
 Practical exercise on model-driven preservation
 Discussion
12.15 pm Wrap-up discussion
12.30pm Lunch

5. Facilitate continued understanding, access to
and reuse of complex digital objects
◦ Objects comprising interconnected and heterogeneous
components

6.  Capture and representation of the environment
◦ Understand the wider context around digital objects that
impacts their long-term reuse
 Digital ecosystems
◦ Analogy with biological systems
◦ Evolving systems of interdependent entities
 Model-driven approach
◦ Abstraction of complex systems as models that can be
manipulated independently
◦ Models are computational – not merely descriptive
 Continuum approach
◦ Merging of active-life and archival phases
◦ Non-custodial

7. Even walking around the Scottish countryside you can bump into a model…