Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings. 10291 - Automation in Digital Preservation
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Abstract
Digital Preservation has evolved into a specialized, interdisciplinary research discipline
of its own, seeing significant increases in terms of research capacity, results, but also
challenges. However, with this specialization and subsequent formation of a dedicated subgroup
of researchers active in this field, limitations of the challenges addressed can be observed.
Digital preservation research may seem to react to problems arising, fixing problems that exist
now, rather than proactively researching new solutions that may be applicable only after a few
years of maturing.
Recognising the benefits of bringing together researchers and practitioners with various
professional backgrounds related to digital preservation, a seminar was organized in Schloss
Dagstuhl, at the Leibniz Center for Informatics (18-23 July 2010), with the aim of addressing
the current digital preservation challenges, with a specific focus on the automation aspects
in this field. The main goal of the seminar was to outline some research challenges in digital
preservation, providing a number of “research questions” that could be immediately tackled,
e.g. in Doctoral Thesis. The seminar intended also to highlight the need for the digital
preservation community to reach out to IT research and other research communities outside the
immediate digital preservation domain, in order to jointly develop solutions
