Publications beginning with 'P'

The assumptions and decisions behind HOPPLA (Home Office Painless Persistent Long-term Archiving) were presented by Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology) at DigCCurr 2009 in Chapel Hill, USA, at 1-3 April 2009.
HOPPLA is an archiving solution for personal archiving - developed for people with little or no skills on preservation issues. [PDF, 173KB]

Planetarium #7 features a spotlight on Characterisation, which explores digital object migration. This issue also includes articles about the recent Market Survey, how Planets tools can be integrated into Archives and Libraries as well as news on our upcoming training event in Sofia, which has been awarded a bursary by the CEI to assist the attendance of 15 delegates. In addition, you will find a list of Planets publications and presentations at events.
[PDF, 322KB]

In the final newsletter Hannah Jenkins, British Library, welcomes the Open Planets Foundation (OPF) which will take over when Planets comes to an end by 31 May 2010. Furthermore the appointed director of OPF is introduced.
This newsletter also features an article on risk management in digital preservation and of course the spotlight is on the final results of Planets and the future directions in digital preservation. In addition, Planetarium #10 presents a series of case studies illustrating the use of Planets in archives and libraries. Finally, the newsletter contains a News Round Up and a list of Planets’ publications and presentations at events.
[PDF, 753KB]

The fifth newsletter from the Planets project includes highlights from the annual review, an introduction to Plato, as well as an article introducing a conceptual model for expressing concepts and requirements in digital preservation. The newsletter also presents detailed lists of recent Planets publications and the project's participation in past and forthcoming events. Finally, the fifth issue reveals a new name, Planetarium, and general makeover of the publication. [PDF, 291KB]

The sixth Planets newsletter features an interesting spotlight on the Planets Testbed and also contains articles about Planets beyond 2010 and the Planets all staff meeting in Marbella.
The newsletter presents detailed lists of Planets publications and presentations at events, and both the award winning Plato and the SIARD tools presentation are briefly described.
[PDF, 675KB]

The Planets project is happy to announce its eighth newsletter, Planetarium. This newsletter features a spotlight on Preservation Planning and presents the emulation preservation strategy and also contains articles about how the Planets technology partners put Planets into practice. In addition you will find a presentation of the results from a Planets Briefing for suppliers and vendors in Brussels on 5-6 June 2009. The newsletter also contains a News round up and a list of Planets publications and presentations at events. [PDF, 686KB]

Planetarium #9 features a spotlight on Preservation Planning: Protecting Files For The Future, presents research in the impact of transition from analogue to digital communication on researchers and civil servants, and also contain an article about how the Planets research partners develop tools and services and put Planets into practice. In addition you will find an article about Planets and the OAIS. The newsletter also contains a News Round Up and a list of Planets publications and presentations at events. [PDF, 2900KB]

The presentation contains the Planets slide show used for the WePreserve stand at CeBIT 2008. [PDF, 2605KB]

This report sets out the components developed during the course of the PLANETS project to extract and evaluate digital object properties, gives recommendations for future work, and in it’s Appendix, illustrates through a use case how these components might be used [PDF, 398KB]

The purpose of this document is to set out a future vision of possible developments for the PLANETS Core Registry (PCR). This is based on both those elements of the PCR which have previously been specified during the course of the PLANETS project as needing further development, for example PUID assignment and the implementation of a faceted classification system, and further ideas for potential development, such as the use of linked data. [PDF, 435KB]

This presentation was given at the iPres 2006 Digital Preservation conference held October 9-10 at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.

It provides an overview of the partners and project with emphasis on preservation planning. It also includes a brief digression on the Office OpenXML file format and how it addresses some of the root causes of digital obsolescence. [PPT, 1575KB]

The cost of digital obsolesence, establishing the project, and designing the preservation tools and services. [PDF, 38KB]

The second Newsletter from the Planets project - describing project progress, the collaboration with other EU projects, the first review by the European Commission etc. [PDF, 113KB]

The third Planets newsletter describes the project's progress, recent and future dissemination activities, Planets publications and presentations etc. [PDF, 141KB]

The fourth Planets newsletter describes the project's progress, recent and future dissemination activities, Planets publications and presentations. PLATO (Planets preservation planning tool) and the XCEL and XCDL languages, which are key components in the characterisation work done in the project, get a special mentioning in the newsletter. Included are also brief reports from the preservation planning tutorial in Vienna and the project's presence at CeBIT 2008. [PDF, 580KB]

This presentation provides a basic overview of the Planets project, its goals, structure, and approach. [PPT, 197KB]

This document describes version 2 of the preservation planning tool Plato, thus it is the accompanying document to the software deliverable. It gives an overview of the underlying Planets preservation planning workflow which Plato implements, explains how to install and access Plato, and gives an overview of events and case studies. [PDF, 449KB]

This presentation was made by Matthew Barr, HATII, at Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future with Planets, British Library Conference Centre, London, 29th July 2008. The preservation of digital objects requires specific software tools and services. These can be characterisation tools that abstract the essential characteristics of a digital object from a file, migration tools that convert digital objects to different formats, or emulation tools that render digital objects in their original context on a new infrastructure. The Planets Testbed provides a controlled environment where preservation tools can be tested and evaluated, and where experiment results can be empirically compared. This presentation will provide a high-level overview and demonstration of the Testbed application and how it will operate in practice. [PDF, 702KB]

This document outlines a plan for the Planets DT6 training programme. It lists the defined communities and teaching methodologies, learning objectives and content of individual courses, proposed locations and dates for events, suggested communication channels, and resources that will be required to deliver the courses successfully. [PDF, 315KB]

This is a presentation by Adam Farquhar given at the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal. It explains the types of problems Planets is addressing and the project partners’ motivations to be involved in the project. In the context of two scenarios, it demonstrates how Planets methods, tools, and services can help organisations diagnose and treat obsolescence problems with their digital objects. [PPT, 825KB]

Abstract: "The Planets Project is developing services and technology to address core challenges in digital preservation. This article introduces the motivation for this work, describes the extensible technical architecture and places the Planets approach into the context of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model. It also provides a scenario demonstrating Planets’ usefulness in solving real-life digital preservation problems and an overview of the project’s progress to date."

The article was published in International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol 2, No 2 (2007).
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The Planets Project is developing services and technology to address core challenges in digital preservation. This article introduces the motivation for this work, describes the extensible technical architecture and places the Planets approach into the context of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model. It also provides a scenario demonstrating Planets’ usefulness in solving real-life digital preservation problems and an overview of the project’s progress to date.

The article was published in International Journal of Digital Curation, Issue 2, Volume 2 | 2007, pp. 88-99
[PDF, 290KB]

This is a presentation given by Eleonora Nicchiarelli, Austrian National Library, at the EVA/MINERVA Conference on 20 November 2007 in Jerusalem, Israel. It introduces the key components of Planets architecture, a general digital preservation scenario using Planets tools and services, as well as the key components of the project. [PDF, 290KB]

This presentation was given by Adam Farquhar, British Library, at the Tools & Trends conference at Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) on 1-2 November 2007.

The talk presented the Planets architechture and conceptual model, the Planets testbed and the Planets Interoperability Framework. [PDF, 155KB]

This presentation was made by Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, at the Planning the Future with Planets preservation tutorial at the Austrian Computer Society on 14 April 2008. The slides provide an overview of the Planets project, the 16 European project partners, Planets architecture and the five key features of Planets technology. [PDF, 805KB]

Christoph Becker, Vienna University of Technology, gave this presentation at the Planning the Future with Planets preservation tutorial at the Austrian Computer Society on 14 April 2008. The slides review Planets architecture; the definition of a preservation plan; integrate Planets concepts and services and introduce exercises to put preservation planning into practice in four institutional settings: a government archive; a private business; games museum and boat collectors image archive. [PDF, 591KB]

This presentation, made by Christoph Becker, Vienna University of Technology, concluded the second day of the Planning the Future with Planets preservation tutorial at the Austrian Computer Society on 15 April. The presentation reviews Planets architecture; a model for translating preservation policy to action; overview of workflow planning and the Plato tool. [PDF, 351KB]

Digital preservation activities can only succeed if they consider the strategy, policy, goals, and constraints of the institution that undertakes them. Furthermore, because organizations differ in many ways, a one-size-fits-all approach cannot be appropriate. [PDF, 1028KB]

This presentation was delivered to the Foundation Rinascimento Digitale at the Round Table, 'PREMIS - Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies' on 6 February 2009 in Rome. Angela Dappert (British Library) presented the PREMIS implementations at the British Library and the use of PREMIS in the Planets project. [PDF, 134KB]

Dr. Adam Farquhar, The British Library, gave a presentation on "The Planets Approach to Digital Preservation" at the Digital Library Federation Spring Forum held in Pasadena, California April 23-25, 2007 [PPT, 2409KB]

Hilde van Wijngaarden, National Library of the Netherlands, gave a presentation on Preservation Action at the Tools & Trends conference at Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) on 1-2 November 2007.

The presentation describes what Preservation Action means and how one should choose a preservation action. It also describes the availablity of preservation action tools and the challenges and development of such tools. [PDF, 393KB]

This presentation was given by Hans Hofman, the National Archives of the Netherlands, at the international symposium on Digital Curation, DigCCurr2007. The symposium was held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 18-20, 2007.

This presentation provides an overview of the main objectives and characteristics of Planets and the results and deliverables which can be expected from it. The presentation focuses on preservation planning, which in its essence tries to get control of the still unknown and virtual world of managing and maintaining digital information.
[PDF, 329KB]

This report presents a study that moves beyond migration and emulations, by exploring the possibilities of binary translation and virtualisation to preserve dynamic and interactive content. [PDF, 1644KB]

This is a presentation by Christoph Becker, Vienna University of Technology, given at the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal. It presents the Planets methodology for specifying preservation plans, which allows explicit definition of preservation requirements and offers a systematic way to compare candidate preservation strategies. It also includes a sneak preview of the software tool called Planets Preservation Planning Tool (Plato), which is being developed to implement the methodology and automate the preservation planning process. [PPT, 3148KB]

This presentation was given by Stephan Strodl at the iPres 2007 conference which took place on October 11-12 2007 in Beijing, China.

The presentation gives an introduction to the Planets Preservation Planning Approach, it presents preservation planning in the OAIS model (including alerts, information flow, and effects of new preservation strategies), and finally a number of conclusions. [PDF, 3963KB]

This presentation was made by Hans Hofman, Nationaal Archief Netherlands, at the Planning the Future with Planets preservation tutorial at the Austrian Computer Society on 14 April 2008. The slides introduce preservation planning, the objectives and how planning fits into the process. The Planets approach to preservation planning is also described as well as the OAIS preservation planning function. [PDF, 236KB]

This presentation was made by Hans Hofman, Nationaal Archief Netherlands, at the ICA 2008 Congress in Kuala Lumpur on 23 July 2008. The presentation touches upon the challenges in digital preservation, interested stakeholders, and the elements which are needed in order ot design a preservation plan. Finally, it lists some of the tools which Planets is currently in the process of developing - including PLATO. [PDF, 441KB]

This presentation was made by Andreas Rauber (University of Vienna) at DigCCurr 2009 in Chapel Hill, USA on 1-3 April 2009. It presents the interactive software tool, Plato, which is aimed at supporting institutions in the process of creating preservation plans. [PDF, 1085KB]

This presentation was delivered during the joint DPE/Planets/CAPAR/nestor training event, ‘The Preservation challenge: basic concepts and practical applications’ in Barcelona, 23-26 March 2009. Hannes Kulovits (Vienna University of Technology) presented, by means of Plato, how to create a preservation plan. [PDF, 1347KB]

This presentation was made by Christoph Becker, University of Vienna, at Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future with Planets, British Library Conference Centre, London, 29th July 2008. The presentation examines the process involved in planning the preservation of digital objects. The planning workflow defines the basic context and representative sample objects for the collection at hand, describes the requirements and the significant properties of the objects, discovers available strategies, tests the chosen options and evaluates the outcomes to arrive at a recommendation on how to treat the digital objects. The presenation also introduces Plato, the Planets digital preservation tool, which supports and automates the workflow. [PDF, 1454KB]

This presentation was made by Christoph Becker, University of Vienna, at Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future with Planets, British Library Conference Centre, London, 29th July 2008. The presentation was part of a practical workshop that provided first-hand experience of working with the Plato tool. Participants took part in creating objective trees which help to define the relevant characteristics and requirements of digital content and to structure these into a preservation planning specification. Using a prepared objective tree, participants imported this into Plato to see how the software works with real-life content to arrive at a preservation plan, using sample content for conducting experiments. [PDF, 1321KB]

This presentation was made by Hans Hofman, Nationaal Archief Netherlands, at the Planning the Future with Planets preservation tutorial at the Austrian Computer Society on 14 April 2008. The slides give a status of the current situation of preservation planning: who is doing what and how. This is illustrated with four different examples. The presentation also describes the requirements that go into creating an operational preservation plan. [PDF, 85KB]

This presentation was made by Hans Hofman, Nationaal Archief Netherlands, at the Planning the Future with Planets preservation tutorial at the Austrian Computer Society on 14 April 2008. The presentation gives an overview of why a preservation plan is needed, what it should include, and how a plan can be built. [PDF, 127KB]

Abstract: "Over the last years, digital preservation has become a particularly
active research area. While several initiatives are dealing with the preservation of standard document formats, the challenges of preserving multimedia objects and pieces of electronic art are still to be tackled. This paper presents the findings of a pilot project for preserving born-digital interactive multimedia art. We describe the specific challenges the collection poses to digital preservation and the results of a case study identifying requirements on the preservation of interactive artworks."

The paper was accepted for presentation at the Tenth International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2007, held on December 10-13 2007 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

D.H.-L. Goh et al. (Eds.): ICADL 2007, LNCS 4822, pp. 257–266, 2007.
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
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This is a presentation given by Christoph Becker, Vienna University of Technology, at the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL’07) on December 10-13 2007 in Hanoi, Vietnam. It touches upon the importance of carrying out digital preservation and points out the complexities in choosing the best preservation strategy. It also presents the Planets preservation planning workflow system (Plato), an example of an objective tree and finally an example of how the presented tools have been used in connection with an actual collection, The Ars Electronica collection (a collection of eletronic art). [PDF, 1629KB]

Over the last years, digital preservation has become a particularly
active research area. While several initiatives are dealing with the preservation of standard document formats, the challenges of preserving multimedia objects and pieces of electronic art are still to be tackled. This paper presents the findings of a pilot project for preserving born-digital interactive multimedia art. We describe the specific challenges the collection poses to digital preservation and the results of a case study identifying requirements on the preservation of interactive artworks.

The paper was presented at the Tenth International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2007, held on December 10-13 2007 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

In: D.H.-L. Goh et al. (Eds.): ICADL 2007, LNCS 4822, pp. 257–266, 2007, © Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2007 [PDF, 1005KB]

In 2004, the British Library secured £2 million funding from JISC to digitise its fragile C19 newspaper collection and make it available online. The collection is one of the top ten in the world and is used by journalists, historians and researchers world-wide. Users such as Kate Summerscale, author of prize-winning novel: "The Suspicions of Mr Whicher."

The British Library has digitised two million pages amounting to 80 terabytes of data. This film looks at the challenges the Library has faced to preserve the collection for the future and the decisions it has taken.

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