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Uncertainty, Risk, Trust, and Digital Persistency

Seamus Ross,

Director HATII University of Glasgow

2006 NHPRC Electronic Records Research Fellowships SymposiumOctober 6, 2006,

Pleasant Room, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)● ERPANET

http://www.erpanet.org● Digital Curation Centre (DCC)

http://www.dcc.ac.uk● DELOS Digital Preservation Cluster

http://www.delos.infohttp://www.dpc.delos.info

● PLANETShttp://www.planets-project.eu/

● CASPARhttp://www.casparpreserves.eu/

● DPEhttp://www.digitalpreservation.europe.eu

● AHDS Performing Arts

http://www.ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/index.htm

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a centre of expertise in data curation and preservation

:: DCC—An Introduction :: 4

a centre of expertise in data curation and preservation

:: DCC—An Introduction :: 5

Development Deliverables• Registry/Repository development

– Review registry data model of related projects and agree common model as far as possible

– Pilot Registry for Data Formats– Design of Representation Information Repository

• Representation Information development– Data Description– Software– Time Dependence– Process

• Testing and Certification processes– Standards– Testbeds– Certification

a centre of expertise in data curation and preservation

:: DCC—An Introduction :: 6www.dcc.ac.uk

DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE): Introduction

DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE): Introduction

• Case studies in public and private sectors – 500 organisations contacted 12% participation

rate achieved– Aim to achieve spread across organisational

size and location– Diversity of organisational type, activity,

regulatory framework, and culture

• Perception across records and resources• Accumulate and make accessible

information about how approaches to digital longevity

• Identify issues for further research

ERPANET Case Studies

Mr Allemann, Trivadis AG Switzerland co-sponsor of the ERPANET Bern Workshop on Long term preservation of databases, April 2003.

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DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE): Introduction

• Perception and awareness of risk posed by digital materials• Understanding how digital preservation affects the organisation• Identifying what actions have been taken to prevent loss of

digital materials• Develop an understanding of the way preservation activities are

monitored (policies or programmes)• Understand how organisations plan future preservation

requirements (e.g. costs)• What technologies are in place

Focus of Investigations

DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE): Introduction

• Variation in awareness of risk• Value of information depends upon recognition of

business/organisational dependency, potential of re-use, or risk associated with information (not necessarily cost)

• Responsibility rarely taken at corporate level• Few organisations have adequate strategies• Activity is fragmentary: practices tend to be incomplete, ad hoc,

and unitary• waiting for external solutions• Preservation and storage poorly understood • Lack of policies and procedures

Eight Very General Findings

http://www.erpanet.org

DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE): Introduction

DELOS Digital Preservation Testbed

• DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries; Digital Preservation Cluster, (FP6 IST)

• Joint efforts by Dutch National Archives, TU-WIEN, ONB, Phonogram Archives, SUB Göttingen, CNR with additional input from many other parties

• DELOS, Digital Preservation Cluster NoE, 6th Framework Program ISTReport at: http://www.dpc.delos.info

• DELOS DP Testbed tool :http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp

DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE): Introduction

Preservation Testbed

• requires clear specification of all DP goals/requirements

• provides structured view of these objectives

• offers platform for repeatable, documented evaluation

• Supports informed, documented, and accountable decisions on which preservation plan to adopt

DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE): Introduction

DELOS DP Testbed

• Reference model for developing preservation testbeds (systems) and an instance of the model

Testbed management

Technical Infrastructure

Research database

ExperimentDatabse

Digital Objects

Experiments processresults

Questions

reports

DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE): Introduction

Evaluation Methodology

• Based on Utility Analysis

• Workflow

• 13 steps in

• 3 phases

• Specifying andevaluatingalternative DP plans

• Work led by Technical University of Vienna

•DELOS DP Testbed tool :http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp

DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE): Introduction

PLANETS Architecture

PreservationPlanningServices

CharacterisationServices

PreservationAction

ServicesTest Bed:evaluation and

validationservices

DisseminationTake-up

&Training

UserCommunity

SupplierCommunity

Interoperability Framework

http://www.planets-project.eu/

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Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)● HATII

http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk● Digital Curation Centre (DCC)

http://www.dcc.ac.uk● DELOS

http://www.delos.infohttp://www.dpc.delos.info

● PLANETShttp://www.planets-project.eu/

● CASPARhttp://www.casparpreserves.eu/

● DPE (DigitalPreservationEurope)http://www.digitalpreservation.europe.eu

● AHDS Performing Arts

http://www.ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/index.htm

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