Publications beginning with 'O'

Christoph Becker, Vienna University of Technology, gave this presentation at the Planning the Future with Planets preservation tutorial at the Austrian Computer Society on 15 April. The session takes users through the process of constructing objective trees; defining influencing factors and stakeholders; creating objective trees; importing objective trees and applying this to the example of web-archiving. [PDF, 913KB]

Abstract: "Object transformation for preservation purposes is currently a hit-or-miss affair, where errors in transformation may go unnoticed for years since manual quality assurance is too resource-intensive for large collections of digital objects.
We propose an approach of semi-automatic quality assurance (QA), where numerous separate automatic checks of “aspects” of the objects, combined with manual inspection, provides greater assurance that objects are transformed with little or no loss of quality. We present an example of using this approach to appraise the quality of OpenOffice’s import of Word documents."

The paper was accepted for and presented at the 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL2007, on 16-21 September 2007 in Budapest, Hungary.
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Lars R. Clausen, State and University Library, Denmark presented his paper "Opening Schrödingers Library: Semi-automatic QA Reduces Uncertainty in Object Transformation" at the 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL2007) on 18 September 2007 in Budapest, Hungary.

Taken from the abstract: "Object transformation for preservation purposes is currently a hit-ormiss affair, where errors in transformation may go unnoticed for years since manual quality assurance is too resource-intensive for large collections of digital objects. We propose an approach of semi-automatic quality assurance (QA), where numerous separate automatic checks of “aspects” of the objects, combined with manual inspection, provides greater assurance that objects are transformed with little or no loss of quality. We present an example of using this approach to appraise the quality of OpenOffice’s import of Word documents." [PDF, 87KB]

Object transformation for preservation purposes is currently a hit-or-miss affair, where errors in transformation may go unnoticed for years since manual quality assurance is too resource-intensive for large collections of digital objects.
We propose an approach of semi-automatic quality assurance (QA), where numerous separate automatic checks of “aspects” of the objects, combined with manual inspection, provides greater assurance that objects are transformed with little or no loss of quality. We present an example of using this approach to appraise the quality of OpenOffice’s import of Word documents.

The paper was presented at the 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL2007, on 16-21 September 2007 in Budapest, Hungary.

In: L. Kovács, N. Fuhr, and C. Meghini (Eds.): ECDL 2007, LNCS 4675, pp. 186–197, 2007, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007 [PDF, 286KB]