Phaidra - A Repository-Project Of The University Of Vienna

2007

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Database Preservation (PresDB’07), 2007

The National Archive of Portugal (IAN/TT) doesn't currently have the needed infrastructures to support the processes of ingestion and management of digital objects produced by the public administration (PA). The eGovernment initiatives establish the need of information and communication technologies support, to improve the efficiency, productivity and quality of their public services. In this scenario, it is clear that the number of digital objects produced by these institutions will grow, and that their legal value and authenticity should be assured. Furthermore, these digital objects will be the testimony of public organizations activity and will constitute the Portuguese social and patrimonial memory. On that account, the IAN/TT should undertake the endeavor of developing processes, tools and resources capable of answering the needs of the public administration institutions in terms of preservation of the digital items being produced. The goal of this project is to provide technical solutions to digital preservation, applicable to a national archive. A prototype is expected to be produced, which will be the basis for the development of a fully functional solution, capable of ingesting and managing digital objects.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2005

The Digital Assets Repository (DAR) is a system developed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Library of Alexandria, to create and maintain the digital library collections. The system introduces a data model capable of associating the metadata of different types of resources with the content such that searching and retrieval can be done efficiently. The system automates the digitization process of library collections as well as the preservation and archiving of the digitized output and provides public access to the collection through browsing and searching capabilities. The goal of this project is building a digital resources repository by supporting the creation, use, and preservation of varieties of digital resources as well as the development of management tools. These tools help the library to preserve, manage and share digital assets. The system is based on evolving standards for easy integration with web-based interoperable digital libraries.

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), 2016

2012

This presentation gives a short overview of long-time preservation of electronic resources and of the role libraries in general and metadata in particular will have in guaranteeing availability of our digital heritage for future users. Some of the current preservation metadata element sets will be described and compared with one another.

International Journal of Computer Science & Engineering Survey, 2017

In the digital age, the amount of data produced is growing exponentially. Governments and institutions can no longer rely on old methods for storing data and passing on the knowledge to future generations. Digital data preservation is a mandatory issue that needs proper strategies and tools. With this awareness, efforts are being made to create and perfect software solutions capable of responding to the challenge of properly preserving digital information. This paper focuses on the state-of-the-art in open-source software solutions for the digital preservation and curation field used to assimilate and disseminate information to designated audiences. Eleven open source projects for digital preservation are surveyed in areas such as supported standards and protocols, strategies for preservation, methodologies for reporting, dynamic of development, targeted operating systems, multilingual support and open source license. Furthermore, five of these open source projects, are further analysed, with focus on features deemed important for the area. Along open source solutions, the paper also briefly surveys the standards and protocols relevant for digital data preservation. The area of digital data preservation repositories has several open source solutions, which can form the base to overcome the challenges to reach mature and reliable digital data preservation. .

Ariadne, 2006

Efforts to archive a large amount of digital material are being developed by many cultural heritage institutions. We have evidence of this in the numerous initiatives aiming to harvest the Web [1-5] together with the impressive burgeoning of institutional repositories [6]. However, getting the material inside the archive is just the beginning for any initiative concerned with the long-term preservation of digital materials.

2004

We motivate, describe and demonstrate a generic repository for visual material related to cultural disciplines such as architecture, art and heritage. The repository design abstracts from the requirements of particular tasks to implement a set of common features based on the metaphor of a gallery. In functional terms, galleries are spaces in which several roles play together to create the larger social entity we call a gallery.

2013

Abstract: The development of a methodology and tools for an automatic extraction of metadata for digital objects deployed in various subject repositories is a potential research issue. This paper presents a general overview of topics concerning the building of repositories and the applied metadata schemas with respect to the objectives of METASPEED project. The main goal of this project is to investigate and create technologies, methods and tools for automatic generation of metadata thus facilitating the proper specification of documents with different e-format, content and location. Key words: Digital object repository, metadata schema

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL OBJECTS (iPRES 2008), 2008

In 2006 the Portuguese National Archives (Directorate-General of the Portuguese Archives) engaged in the development of an OAIS compatible digital repository system for long-term preservation of digital material. Simultaneously, at the University of Minho a project called CRiB was being devised which aimed at the development of a wholesome set of services to aid digital preservation. Among those services were format converters, quality-assessment tools, preservation planning and automatic metadata production for retaining representations? authenticity. This paper provides a detailed description of both projects and discusses how these may be integrated into a complete digital preservation solution based on currently available archiving and preservation standards, e.g. OAIS, EAD, PREMIS, METS and ANSI/NISO Z39.87.