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The creation of most digital objects occurs solely in interactive graphical user interfaces available at the particular time period. Archiving and preservation organizations are posed with large amounts of such objects of various types. At some point they will need to, if possible, automatically process these to make them available to their users or convert them to a valid format.
A substantial problem in creating an automated process is the availability of suitable tools. In this paper a new method is suggested, which uses an operating system and application independent interactive workflow for the migration of digital objects using an emulated environment. Success terms for the conception and functionality of emulation environments are therefore devised which should be applied to future long-term archiving methods.

The paper was presented by Klaus Rechert, University of Freiburg, at iPres 2009, 5-6 October 2009, in San Francisco, California. [PDF, 225KB]

The creation of most digital objects occurs solely in interactive graphical user interfaces available at the particular time period. Archiving and preservation organizations are posed with large amounts of such objects of various types. At some point they will need to, if possible, automatically process these to make them available to their users or convert them to a valid format.
A substantial problem in creating an automated process is the availability of suitable tools. This presentation suggests a new method, which uses an operating system and application independent interactive workflow for the migration of digital objects using an emulated environment. Success terms for the conception and functionality of emulation environments are therefore devised which should be applied to future long-term archiving methods.

The presentation was given by Klaus Rechert, University of Freiburg, at iPres 2009, 5-6 October 2009, in San Francisco, California. [PDF, 1443KB]