About
An important part of digital preservation is to analyse the content and uncover the risks that hinder its preservation. This analysis entails answering diverse questions, like for example: Which file formats do I have?, Are there any invalid files?, Are there any files violating my defined policies?; and many others. The threats to preservation of content belong to many distinct domains, from technological to organizational, economical and political, and can relate to the holder of the content, the producers or to the target communities to which the content is primarily destined for.
Scout, the preservation watch system, allows to centralize all the necessary knowledge to the same platform, cross-relating this knowledge to uncover all preservation risks. Scout automatically fetches information from several sources to populate its knowledge base. For example, SCOUT integrates with C3PO to get large-scale characterization profiles of content. Furthermore, Scout targets to be a knowledge exchange platform, to allow the community to bring together all the necessary information into the system. The sharing of information opens new opportunities for joining forces against common problems.
This tutorial demonstrates and provides a hands-on on how to find preservation risks in your content and, at the same time, share your content profile information with others to open new opportunities.
We encourage all participants to bring their own content and laptops, and learn how to uncover preservation risks hands on!
Outline
| Topic | Presenter |
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| Motivation and overview | Andreas Rauber |
| From content to characterization profile | Kresimir Duretec |
| Preservation Watch and Risks | Luis Faria |
| Hands-on demonstration of tools | All |
| Q&A and discussion of issues | All |
| Outlook: roadmap and challenges | Andreas Rauber |
Learning outcomes
| Learned how to characterise their collections and use C3PO to easily inspect the content characteristics | |
| Learned how to integrate C3PO with Scout and publish their content profiles online | |
| Learned how to use Scout to automatically monitor their content profile | |
| Learned how to monitor preservation risks by cross referencing their content profile with policies, information from the world, and even content profiles from their peers | |
| Discussed the potential of such a community-based knowledge base approach to facilitate experience sharing and risk management | |
| Discussed future technological developments and the roadmap for further developing the tools |
Presenters
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Luis Faria
Innovation Director at KEEP SOLUTIONS and a PhD student at the University of Minho. He graduated in System and Informatics Engineering by the University of Minho in 2006. Is part of the development team of RODA (Repository of Authentic Digital Objects), of Scout (the preservation monitoring system), and is involved in the SCAPE and 4C research projects.
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Kresimir Duretec
PhD student and a research assistant at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology. He graduated in Computer Science by the University of Zagreb in 2011. He is currently involved in the SCAPE and BenchmarkDP research projects.
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Artur Kulmukhametov
PhD student at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology. He graduated with a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Computer Science from the Ufa State Aviation Technical University in 2012. He is involved in the research projects SCAPE and BenchmarkDP.
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Andreas Rauber
Associate Professor at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems (ifs) at the Vienna University of Technology (TU-Wien). He furthermore is president of AARIT, the Austrian Association for Research in IT.