Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation, November 2-6, 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Abstract:
This paper describes how the E-ARK project (European Archival Records and Knowledge Preservation) aims to develop an
overarching methodology for curating digital assets. This methodology must address business needs and operational issues, proposing a technical wall-to-wall reference implementation for the core OAIS flow – Ingest, Archival Storage and Access. The focal point of the paper is the Access part of the OAIS flow. The paper first lays out the access vision of the E-ARK project, and secondly describes the method employed to enable information processing and to pin-point the functional and non-functional requirements. These requirements will allow the E-ARK project to create a standardized format for the Dissemination Information Package (DIP), and to develop the access tools that will process this format. The paper then proceeds to describe the actual DIP format before detailing what the access solution will look like, which tools will be developed and, not least, why the E-ARK Access system will be used and work.
The Meertens Institute, part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, is also a memory institution, where records are digitally preserved and curated. This talk will give an overview of the different types of records currently digitally curated at the Meertens Institute. We highlight our recent projects, such as the Sailing Letters project, where we use crowd sourcing to transcribe centuries-old handwritten letters, or the Radical Political Representation project, where we crowd source the analysis of political cartoons. These are all exemplary Digital Humanities cases, and we show our approach to the digital archiving of these materials, from creation to (re-)use.
Achille Felicetti - ARIADNE Semantic Integration of Archaeological Informationariadnenetwork
This presentation by Achille Felicetti of PIN at the ARIADNE winter school describes the approach adopted in ARIADNE for the semantic integration of archaeological information. The challenges of integrating archaeological datasets created in various countries with different research objectives and implicit knowledge built into the structure of the data. The CIDOC-CRM ontology is introduced and the benefits of using it as a reference framework for semantic integration are discussed.
The Meertens Institute, part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, is also a memory institution, where records are digitally preserved and curated. This talk will give an overview of the different types of records currently digitally curated at the Meertens Institute. We highlight our recent projects, such as the Sailing Letters project, where we use crowd sourcing to transcribe centuries-old handwritten letters, or the Radical Political Representation project, where we crowd source the analysis of political cartoons. These are all exemplary Digital Humanities cases, and we show our approach to the digital archiving of these materials, from creation to (re-)use.
Achille Felicetti - ARIADNE Semantic Integration of Archaeological Informationariadnenetwork
This presentation by Achille Felicetti of PIN at the ARIADNE winter school describes the approach adopted in ARIADNE for the semantic integration of archaeological information. The challenges of integrating archaeological datasets created in various countries with different research objectives and implicit knowledge built into the structure of the data. The CIDOC-CRM ontology is introduced and the benefits of using it as a reference framework for semantic integration are discussed.
Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation, November 2-6, 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Abstract:
Memory institutions have already collected a large number of digital objects, predominantly CD-ROMs. Some of them are already inaccessible with current systems, and most of them will be soon. Emulation offers a viable strategy for long-term access to these publications. However, these collections are huge and the objects are missing technical metadata to setup a suitable emulated environment. In this paper we propose a pragmatic approach to technical metadata which we use to implement a characterization tool to suggest a suitable emulated rendering environment.
Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation, November 2-6, 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Abstract:
In this paper, we describe an OAIS aligned data model and architectural design that enables us to archive digital information with a single core preservation workflow. The data model allows for normalization of metadata from widely varied domains to ingest and manage the submitted information utilizing only one generalized toolchain and be able to create access platforms that are tailored to designated data consumer communities. The design of the preservation system is not dependent on its components to continue to exist over its lifetime, as we anticipate changes both of technology and environment. The initial implementation depends mainly on the open-source tools Archivematica, Fedora/Islandora, and iRODS.
Achille Felicetti "Introduction to the Ariadne winter school and to the ARIAD...ariadnenetwork
This presentation, by Achille Felicetti of PIN, gives an introduction to the ARIADNE winter school, to the ARIADNE research infrastructure and to the integration of archaeological datasets into the infrastructure. The process of integrating diverse datasets using the ARIADNE Catalogue Data Model to provide a high level description and the strategies to support retrieval by subject, period and map location.
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Presentation by Costis Dallas
Digital Curation Unit-IMIS, Athena Research Centre
Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University
Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
and
Dimitris Gavrilis
Digital Curation Unit-IMIS, Athena Research Centre
Full-day session on archaeological infrastructures and services at the 18th Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) conference
Vienna, Austria
11th -13th November 2013
Innovative methods for data integration: Linked Data and NLPariadnenetwork
Linked Data (LD) + Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Two technologies that open up new possibilities for semantic integration of archaeological datasets and fieldwork reports.
Overview
•Illustrative early examples
- a flavour of progress and challenges to date
•NLP of grey literature (English – Dutch)
•Mapping between multilingual vocabularies
What is an archaeological research infrastructure and why do we need it? Aims...ariadnenetwork
Presentation by:
Edeltraud Aspöck, OREA (Institute for Rriental and European Archaeology)
and
Guntram Geser, Salzburg Research
Full-day session on archaeological infrastructures and services at the 18th Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) conference
Vienna, Austria
11th -13th November 2013
Pieterjan Deckers - Medea an online platform for recording metal-detected findsariadnenetwork
Presentation given by Pieterjan Deckers of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel at the ARIADNE winter school about MEDEA, an online platform for recording metal-detected finds. The presentation describes the background to the project and its approach.
Béatrice Markhoff - Semantic mediation ArSol and CIDOC CRMariadnenetwork
Presentation given by Béatrice Markhoff of the University of Tours at the ARIADNE winter school on work that has been carried out to integrate data and to implement ArSol (Archives du Sol). The presentation describes the mapping to the CIDOC CRM and how its been implemented to provide a web based application.
Presentation by Joanna Rae of the British Antarctic Survey about using Modes Complete to record archive and collection information in a single program.
Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation, November 2-6, 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Abstract:
Memory institutions have already collected a large number of digital objects, predominantly CD-ROMs. Some of them are already inaccessible with current systems, and most of them will be soon. Emulation offers a viable strategy for long-term access to these publications. However, these collections are huge and the objects are missing technical metadata to setup a suitable emulated environment. In this paper we propose a pragmatic approach to technical metadata which we use to implement a characterization tool to suggest a suitable emulated rendering environment.
Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation, November 2-6, 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Abstract:
In this paper, we describe an OAIS aligned data model and architectural design that enables us to archive digital information with a single core preservation workflow. The data model allows for normalization of metadata from widely varied domains to ingest and manage the submitted information utilizing only one generalized toolchain and be able to create access platforms that are tailored to designated data consumer communities. The design of the preservation system is not dependent on its components to continue to exist over its lifetime, as we anticipate changes both of technology and environment. The initial implementation depends mainly on the open-source tools Archivematica, Fedora/Islandora, and iRODS.
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Presentation by Costis Dallas
Digital Curation Unit-IMIS, Athena Research Centre
Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University
Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
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Digital Curation Unit-IMIS, Athena Research Centre
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•Mapping between multilingual vocabularies
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Presentation by:
Edeltraud Aspöck, OREA (Institute for Rriental and European Archaeology)
and
Guntram Geser, Salzburg Research
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Pieterjan Deckers - Medea an online platform for recording metal-detected findsariadnenetwork
Presentation given by Pieterjan Deckers of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel at the ARIADNE winter school about MEDEA, an online platform for recording metal-detected finds. The presentation describes the background to the project and its approach.
Béatrice Markhoff - Semantic mediation ArSol and CIDOC CRMariadnenetwork
Presentation given by Béatrice Markhoff of the University of Tours at the ARIADNE winter school on work that has been carried out to integrate data and to implement ArSol (Archives du Sol). The presentation describes the mapping to the CIDOC CRM and how its been implemented to provide a web based application.
Presentation by Joanna Rae of the British Antarctic Survey about using Modes Complete to record archive and collection information in a single program.
Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation, November 2-6, 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Abstract:
Digital curation is a complex of actors, policies, practices, and technologies enabling successful consumer engagement with
authentic content of interest across space and time. While digital curation is a rapidly maturing field, it still lacks a convincing unified theoretical foundation. A recent internal evaluation of its programmatic activities by the University of California Curation Center (UC3) led quickly to seemingly simple, yet deceptively difficult-to-answer questions. Too many fundamental terms of curation practice remain overloaded and under-formalized, perhaps none more so than “digital object.” To address these concerns, UC3 is developing a new model for conceptualizing the curation domain. While drawing freely from
many significant prior efforts (e.g., Kahn-Wilensky, FRBR, NAA, OAIS, BRM, etc.), the UC3 Sept model also assumes that digital curation is an inherently semiotic activity. Consequently, the model considers curated content with respect to six distinct analytic dimensions: semantics, syntactics, empirics, pragmatics, diplomatics, and dynamics, which refer respectively to content’s underlying abstract meaning or emotional affect, symbolic encoding structures, physical representations, realizing behaviors, evidential authenticity and reliability, and evolution through time. Correspondingly, the model defines an object typology of increasing consumer utility: blobs, artifacts, exemplars, products, assets, records, and heirlooms, which are respectively existential, intentional, purposeful, interpretable, useful, trustworthy, and resilient digital objects. Content engagement is modeled in terms of producer, owner, manager, and consumer roles acting within a continuum of concerns for originating, organizing, and pluralizing curated content. Content policy and strategy are modeled in terms of six high-level imperatives: predilect, collect, protect, introspect, project, and connect. A consistent, comprehensive, and conceptually parsimonious domain model is important for planning, performing, and evaluating programmatic activities in a rigorous and systematic rather than ad hoc and idiosyncratic manner. The UC3 Sept model can be used to make precise yet concise statements regarding curation intentions, activities, and results.
Archiver pilot phase kick off Award CeremonyArchiver
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Archiver pilot phase kick off Award CeremonyArchiver
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Delivered by Peter Burnhill at Text Mining for Scholarly Communications and Repositories Joint Workshop, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, 28-29 October 2009
On 29 January 2020 ARCHIVER launched its Request for Tender with the purpose to award several Framework Agreements and work orders for the provision of R&D for hybrid end-to-end archival and preservation services that meet the innovation challenges of European Research communities, in the context of the European Open Science Cloud.
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Science Demonstrator Session: Social and Earth SciencesEOSCpilot .eu
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These sessions will help members of the scientific communities understanding the current state of maturity of the EOSC ecosystem and what is obtainable in a field of scientific research. It is also valuable to prospective Service Providers who wish to discover what are the challenges and opportunities that user communities might have to deal with, as a result of the adoption of their services.
This session will focus on Social and Earth Sciences.
Topics
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● MediaMosa for Archives / eDepot
● MediaMosa and WCAG2 Compliancy
● MediaMosa and SURFconext
● MediaMosa and Clouds
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20yrs: 2007 Brussels Digital Preservation: Setting the Course for a Decade of...Neil Beagrie
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This presentation was the opening keynote to a conference in 2007 held by the Belgian Association of Documentation (BDA) to celebrate its 60th anniversary. It dates from my time at the British Library.
The conference theme was "Europe facing the challenge of the long term conservation of digitalised archives". My keynote synthesised many of the topics I was focussing on at the time (and have featured in some of my earlier slide shares in this series) including encouraging University libraries to engage more actively with research data management in the sciences, to begin developing digital special collections of individuals, and to support international efforts to ensure continuing access and preservation of e-Journals as part of the scholarly record. In addition, given the European focus I briefly covered some of the major European initiatives in digital preservation at that time.
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Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation, November 2-6, 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Abstract:
Researchers in information science are placing increased attention on data reuse and on what must be preserved with that data to enable meaningful use by scholars within and across disciplines. Although the focus has been on scientific or quantitative data, this paper expands the discussion to qualitative data – specifically digital video records of practice in the field of education. This is an interesting case because researchers and diverse education professionals are interested in reusing this content, though their needs differ. We focus on three issues that raise challenges for preservation and access: file format, context, and dissemination.
Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation, November 2-6, 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Abstract:
The role of the National Archives of Australia is to promote the creation, management and preservation of authentic, reliable and usable Commonwealth government records and enable ongoing public access to the archival resources of the Commonwealth. Records that are created by Commonwealth government agencies and transferred to the National Archives are, of course, predominately digital. Digital records bring a range of challenges, but they also potentially present new opportunities in the way archives can conduct their business. This paper outlines a project currently underway at the National Archives, named Project Chrysalis, which is an end-to-end business system that aims to transform the way in which the Archives does its digital business. Project Chrysalis represents not just a technical solution, but also significant business change for the National Archives. However, if implemented successfully, the project should enable the Archives to sustainably harvest, preserve and provide access to digital records in the information age.
Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation, November 2-6, 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Abstract:
To develop a comprehensive digital preservation program for maintaining long-term access to the Libraries’ digital assets and align our practices with national standards and guidelines, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries formed the Digital Preservation Task Force (DPTF) to assess previous digital preservation practices and make recommendations on future efforts. This paper outlines the methodology used, including the task force’s use of existing models and evaluation criteria, to successfully generate new policies and select Archivematica as our system to process and preserve our digital assets. It concludes with recommended strategies for the implementation of the policies and preservation operations.
Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation, November 2-6, 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Abstract:
The DataNet Federation Consortium uses a policy-based data management system to apply and enforce preservation requirements. This paper describes the Preservation Policy Toolkit developed by the consortium. In particular, the paper describes the infrastructure needed for preservation, presents examples of computer actionable forms of policies, and provides a generic template for designing actionable preservation policies.
Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation, November 2-6, 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Abstract:
This paper describes some of the challenges the National Library of New Zealand has faced in our efforts to maintain the authenticity of born digital collection items from first transfer to the Library through ingest into our digital preservation system. We assume that assuring the authenticity and integrity of digital objects means preserving the binary objects plus metadata about the objects. We discuss the efforts and challenges of the Library to preserve contextual metadata around the binary object, in particular filenames and file dates. We discuss these efforts from the two perspectives of the digital archivist and the digital preservation analyst, and how these two perspectives inform our current thinking.
Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation, November 2-6, 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Abstract:
The National Library of France (BnF) has recently implemented a new module for its Scalable Preservation and Archiving Repository (SPAR) to set up preservation strategies based on formats, agents, workflows, tools and tests, and managed as reference packages in the Archive. This module aims to fulfill an objective: for SPAR to be fully self-documented. Formats, agents and workflows are formally described and preserved along with the Information packages in which such elements are involved. Although this was a feature that was included from the beginnings of SPAR, the new Preservation Planning module aims to provide a tool that can more easily build these reference packages and that will more closely involve domain experts and the IT department in the processes of preservation planning. But the main innovation lies in the documentation of decisions that directed their selection as standards in SPAR: test data are now preserved as a new kind of reference package.
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Abstract:
We describe a hybrid approach for access to digital objects contained within forensic disk images extracted from physical media. This approach includes the use of emulation-as-a-service (EaaS) to provide web-accessible virtual environments for materials that may not render or execute accuratelyon modern hardware and software, and the use of digital forensics software libraries to produce web-accessible file system views to support single-file access and provide visualizations of the file system.
Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation, November 2-6, 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Abstract:
An increasing amount of scientific work is performed in silico, such that the entire process of investigation, from experiment to publication, is performed by computer. Unfortunately, this has made the problem of scientific reproducibility even harder, due to the complexity and imprecision of specifying and recreating the computing environments needed to run a given piece of software. Here, we consider from a high level what techniques and technologies must be put in place to allow for the accurate preservation of the execution of software. We assume that there exists a suitable digital archive for storing digital objects; what is missing are frameworks for precisely specifying, assembling, and executing software with all of its dependencies. We discuss the fundamental problems of managing implicit dependencies and outline two broad approaches: preserving the mess, and encouraging cleanliness. We introduce three prototype tools for preserving software executions: Parrot, Umbrella, and Prune.
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Abstract: Web resources are increasingly interactive, resulting in resources that are increasingly difficult to archive. The archival difficulty is based on the use of client-side technologies (e.g., JavaScript) to change the client-side state of a representation after it has initially loaded. We refer to these representations as deferred representations. We can better archive deferred representations using tools like headless browsing clients. We use 10,000 seed Universal Resource Identifiers (URIs) to explore the impact of including PhantomJS – a headless browsing tool – into the crawling process by comparing the performance of wget (the baseline), PhantomJS, and Heritrix. Heritrix crawled 2.065 URIs per second, 12.15 times faster than PhantomJS and 2.4 times faster than wget. However, PhantomJS discovered 531,484 URIs, 1.75 times more than Heritrix and 4.11 times more than wget. To take advantage of the performance benefits of Heritrix and the URI discovery of PhantomJS, we recommend a tiered crawling strategy in which a classifier predicts whether a representation will be deferred or not, and only resources with deferred representations are crawled with PhantomJS while resources without deferred representations are crawled with Heritrix. We show that this approach is 5.2 times faster than using only PhantomJS and creates a frontier (set of URIs to be crawled) 1.8 times larger than using only Heritrix.
Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation, November 2-6, 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Abstract:
Creation and improvement of tools for digital preservation is a difficult task without an established way to assess any progress in their quality. This happens due to low presence of solid evidence and a lack of accessible approaches to create such evidence. Software benchmarking, as an empirical method, is used in various fields to provide objective evidence about the quality of software tools. However, digital preservation field is still missing a proper adoption of that method. This paper establishes a theory of benchmarking of tools in digital preservation as a solid method for gathering and sharing the evidence needed to achieve widespread improvements in tool quality. To this end, we discuss and synthesize literature and experience on the theory and practice of benchmarking as a method and define a conceptual framework for benchmarks in digital preservation. Four benchmarks that address different digital preservation scenarios are presented. We compare existing reports on tool evaluation and how they address the main components of benchmarking, and we discuss the question of whether the field possesses the right combination of social factors that make benchmarking a promising method at this point in time. The conclusions point to significant opportunities for collaborative benchmarks and systematic evidence sharing, but also several major challenges ahead.
Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation, November 2-6, 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Abstract:
In this paper, we describe the development of a file format migrations framework at Harvard Library, using one migration
case study, Kodak PhotoCD images, to demonstrate implementation of the framework.
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Towards a Common Approach for Access to Digital Archival Records in Europe. Alex Thirifays and Kathrine Hougaard Edsen Johansen
1. iPRES
12th International Conference on Digital Preservation
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alex Thirifays
Danish National Archives (DNA)
E-ARK
European Archival Records and Knowledge Preservation
Towards a Common Approach for
Access to Digital Archival Records in
Europe
3. What’s the ambition of E-ARK?
Overall goal: Create open source, full-fledged digital archive with
• Common workflows and terminology
• Common formats (SAD-IP)
• Common tools
• Solution will be: Scalable, computational, modular, robust,
and adaptable
Common methods
• Common framework using international
standards e.g. OAIS, PREMIS, METS, PAIS…
• Reuse of existing software (e.g. ICA-AtoM) and formats
(e.g. SIARD)
• Open Source, Github, etc.
Different content types
• Databases, geodata, Electronic Records Management Systems
(ERMS), individual computer files, and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
4. Who and what?
These designated communities…
• Producers
• Archives
• Consumers
Need…
• Everything but images (e.g. database archiving, geodata)
• User friendliness
• Uniformity; reduction of number of tools Savings!
• Exchange Is E-ARK the first step of a common
European infrastructure? What’s next?
Get…
• The Reference Implementation, which is
7. Scope
SIP
•Package prepared by Pre-Ingest
WP3
AIP
•Package created for long-term archive
WP4
DIP
•Package created for access
WP5 Danish National Archives
8. ‘Access’ workpackage main working areas and method
Access Tools
User needs
Requirements
specification
&
DIP format
Best practices
Search Interface
Order Management
AIP-DIP transformation
DIP modification
End-user access to
requested archives
9. The GAP analysis
• Examine landscape of current access
solutions;
• Examine user needs for access solutions
• Compare those and create a
GAP analysis
10. Findings from GAP analysis
User requirements
Overall users’ needs are not met very well!
• Content data type coverage (databases!) Must bridge!
• Integration of Access services Must bridge!
• Metadata and search quality Must bridge!
• Usability (& exploitation) Must bridge!
13. DIP & tool requirements
Req.
no
Requirement description Use
Case
MoSCo
W
23 The DIP must allow for the inclusion of any
descriptive metadata from the AIP
UC4.2 M
24 The DIP must allow for the inclusion of any relevant
descriptions of access conditions and restrictions
UC4.2 M
25 The DIP must allow for the inclusion of any relevant
technical metadata about its content
UC4.2 M
26 The DIP must allow to use any relevant metadata
standards within it
UC4.2 M
27 The DIP must include the date and time of the
creation
UC4.2 M
28 The DIP must allow to include data in any type or
format within it
UC4.2 M
29 The DIP must include information which allows its
validation and authentication by the user
UC4.2 M
30 The DIP should include relevant information about
the context and provenance of the package (i.e. the
position in the archival hierarchy, reference to the
creator and archives)
UC4.2 S
31 The DIP should allow for including / logging
information about any changes done to the IP
during ingest (SIP), preservation (AIP) or access
preparation (DIP)
UC4.3 S
32 The DIP should include information about its
current status in the DIP preparation workflow (as
an example, whether the DIP is ready for delivery
UC4.3 S
15. Metadata requirements
Examination of metadata standards:
• Categorization of metadata elements to enable
comparison of different standards
• Quantification of elements to produce a detailed
impression of the coverage of each standard
Result: METS, PREMIS, EAD, EAC-CPF,
INSPIRE, SIARD, Moreq
19. Take-up and sustainability…
• Access attracts increasing attention/funding. For example
public authorities need access to their own records. This is why
national archives of Sweden and Norway are in the process of
creating so-called ‘middle archives’ that cater for these needs.
• Archives need database archiving. Over the coming 5 years, the
Danish National Archives will ingest around 100TB of data per
year, most of which are databases. No reason to believe that
public authorities in other countries generate less data.
• ~Data mining. Exploitation of data is sought for. However, there’s
a conflict between confidentiality and access. Will it be solved by
EU initiatives like Scrutiny?
20. Take-up and sustainability…
• The common IP format will
– facilitate exchange of information packages and
standardize the search for them and within them
– it will also reduce the number of tools needed in the
archival community, and thus their development cost and
maintenance cost
• Pilots will prove the concept, which is the main strength of
the E-ARK project regarding take-up
• Flexible work flows, micro-services and open source will
cater for adaptability to local needs and longevity
21. …and a glimpse into the future
• Finalisation of the DIP format (January 2016)
• Pilot release of E-ARK Access tools (April 2016)
• Functionality show-off at iPRES, Bern (2016)
• Final release of E-ARK Access tools (January 2017)
Beyond the E-ARK project there’s the possibility of building a
common, international archival infrastructure, building on the E-ARK IP
formats. It would allow people from everywhere to search in all kinds of
archival repositories, exploiting data in new ways, opening the doors
for new research, clever journalism, more efficient public
administration, and, not the least, new business possibilities for private
companies.
