Preservation Policies für sparten- und institutionsübergreifende Digitale Langzeitarchivierung

Die Vielfalt und schiere Menge von Digitalia im Bereich des digitalen Kulturerbes stellt Gedächtnisorganisationen vor Aufgaben, die zunehmend kooperativ bewältigt werden müssen. Kooperationen gelten im Bereich der Digitalen Langzeitarchivierung als probates Mittel zur Schonung von Personal- und Sachressourcen. Während die technische Machbarkeit der verteilten Bitstream Preservation bewiesen und auch andere Teilaspekte der kooperativen Langzeitarchivierung praxistauglich geworden sind, zeigen sich kooperative Aspekte in Managementinstrumenten wie Preservation Policies unscharf oder unterrepräsentiert. Die vorliegende Arbeit identifiziert in Top-Down und Bottom-Up-Ansätzen kooperative Policy-Aspekte und formuliert sie als ergänzende Empfehlungen zu bestehenden Best-Practice-Materialien des deutschen Kompetenznetzwerkes nestor. Basierend auf den Vorarbeiten der Forschungsinitiativen InterPARES, PLANETS und SCAPE werden Möglichkeiten der Formalisierung von Preservation Policies aufgezeigt. Dazu zählt die Übertragung strategischer Ziele in die Strategy Markup Language (StratML) sowie eine Formalisierung von Policy-Elementen für den Einsatz in skalierbaren Preservation Environments.The diversity and extent of digital data requires memory institutions to collaborate in the field of digital preservation. While joint ventures are deemed cost savers for all parties involved, the community observes first hand experience in distributed bitstream preservation and other cloud based-services in the digital preservation domain. However, cooperative aspects appear to be under-represented in preservation policies and related strategic documents. This work identifies cooperative policy elements using both top-down and bottom-up-approaches. It suggests supplementary recommendations to policy development in general and supporting materials published by the German competence network nestor. Based on earlier research by InterPARES, PLANETS and SCAPE the paper also examines higher degrees of formalisation for preservation policy elements. In two hands-on approaches, the paper will transform strategic objectives from a real-life preservation policy into in the Strategy Markup Language (StratML) and introduce possible ways of policy formalisation applicable in scalable preservation environments

Preservation Policies für sparten- und institutionsübergreifende Digitale Langzeitarchivierung

Die Vielfalt und schiere Menge von Digitalia im Bereich des digitalen Kulturerbes stellt Gedächtnisorganisationen vor Aufgaben, die zunehmend kooperativ bewältigt werden müssen. Kooperationen gelten im Bereich der Digitalen Langzeitarchivierung als probates Mittel zur Schonung von Personal- und Sachressourcen. Während die technische Machbarkeit der verteilten Bitstream Preservation bewiesen und auch andere Teilaspekte der kooperativen Langzeitarchivierung praxistauglich geworden sind, zeigen sich kooperative Aspekte in Managementinstrumenten wie Preservation Policies unscharf oder unterrepräsentiert. Die vorliegende Arbeit identifiziert in Top-Down- und Bottom-Up-Ansätzen kooperative Policy-Aspekte und formuliert sie als ergänzende Empfehlungen zu bestehenden Best-Practice-Materialien des deutschen Kompetenznetzwerkes nestor. Basierend auf den Vorarbeiten der Forschungsinititativen InterPARES,PLANETSund SCAPE werden Möglichkeiten der Formalisierung von Preservation Policies aufgezeigt. Dazu zählt die Übertragung strategischer Ziele in die Strategy Markup Language (StratML) sowie eine Formalisierung von Policy-Elementen für den Einsatz in skalierbaren Preservation Environments.The diversity and extent of digital data requires memory institutions to collaborate in the field of digital preservation. While joint ventures are deemed cost savers for all parties involved, the community observes first hand experience in distributed bitstream preservation and other cloud based-services in the digital preservation domain. However, cooperative aspects appear to be under-represented in preservation policies and related Strategic documents. This work identifies cooperative policy elements using both top-down and bottom-up-approaches. It suggests supplementary recommendations to policy development in general and supporting materials published by the German competence network nestor. Based on earlier research by InterPARES, PLANETS and SCAPE the paper also examines higher degrees of formalisation for preservation policy elements. In two hands-on approaches, the paper will transform strategic objectives from a real-life preservation policy into in the Strategy Markup Language (StratML) and introduce possible ways of policy formalization applicable in scalable preservation environments

Towards the Preservation of the Scientific Memory

In this paper we consider the requirements for preserving the memory of science.  This is becoming more challenging as data volumes and rates continue to increase.  Further, to capture a full picture of the scientific memory we need to move beyond the bit preservation challenge to consider how to capture research in context, represent the meaning of the data, and how to interpret data in relation to other scientific artefacts distributed in multiple information spaces. We review the progress of scientific research into the digital preservation of science over the last decade, emphasising in particular the research and development programme of STFC. We conclude with a number of observations into the future directions of research and also the practical deployment of policy and infrastructure to effectively preserve the scientific memory

Building information modeling – A game changer for interoperability and a chance for digital preservation of architectural data?

Digital data associated with the architectural design-andconstruction process is an essential resource alongside -and even past- the lifecycle of the construction object it describes. Despite this, digital architectural data remains to be largely neglected in digital preservation research – and vice versa, digital preservation is so far neglected in the design-and-construction process. In the last 5 years, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has seen a growing adoption in the architecture and construction domains, marking a large step towards much needed interoperability. The open standard IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) is one way in which data is exchanged in BIM processes. This paper presents a first digital preservation based look at BIM processes, highlighting the history and adoption of the methods as well as the open file format standard IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) as one way to store and preserve BIM data

Preservation Policy Levels in SCAPE: Paper - iPres 2013 - Lisbon

This paper describes the Preservation Policy model as designed in the European project SCAPE and an experiment to test the viability of the model against two real life preservation policies