Presentations

This paper describes a proposal for a logical data model based on preliminary work within the Planets project. In OAIS terms the main areas discussed are related to the introduction of a logical data model for representing the past, present and future versions of the digital object associated with the Archival Storage Package for the publications deposited by our client repositories.

The paper was presented by Eld Zierau at ECDL 2008 which was held in Aarhus, Denmark, on 14-19 September 2008 [PDF, 183KB]

In his presentation Max Kaiser describes the Planets Testbed, which is a controlled environment for experimentation on and evaluation of a wide array of preservation tools and services. The full public release of the Testbed will be in 2010, but it is possible to get access to carry out experiments now and thereby to help improving the development of the Testbed.

This presentation was given by Max Kaiser from The Austrian National Library at the eChallenges e2009 Conference in Istanbul on 21-23 October 2009. [PDF, 474KB]

In early 2009 Planets conducted an on-line survey of people with an interest in digital preservation. In particular, national libraries and archives in Europe were targeted. The survey had a relatively large number of responses (over 200), approximately two fifths were from libraries and a third from archives.
This talk presents the outcomes of the survey and the key lessons that can be drawn from this study and applied in institutions. In particular, it will examine the questions institutions need to ask themselves as digital preservation starts to move away from being a craft towards becoming a deployable, scalable reality. In short, are you ready?

The presentation relates to the paper Are you ready? Assessing Whether Organizations are Prepared for Digital Preservation and was given by Robert Sharpe, Tessella, at iPres 2009, 5-6 October 2009, in San Francisco, California. [PDF, 118KB]

This presentation relates to the paper Digital Archaeology: Recovering Digital Objects from Audio Waveforms which deals with a case study of extracting data created on an early home computer system, the Philips G7400.

The original data formats were re-engineered and an application was written to support the migration of data stored on tapes without using the original system. This eliminates the necessity of keeping an obsolete system alive for preserving access to data on storage media meant for this system. Two different methods to interpret the data and eliminate possible errors in the tape were implemented and evaluated on original tapes recorded 20 years ago. Results show that with some error correction methods parts of the tapes are still readable, even without the original system. It also becomes clear, that it is easier to build solutions now when the original systems are still available.

The presentation was given by Mark Guttenbrunner, Vienna University of Technology, at iPres 2009, 5-6 October 2009, in San Francisco, California. [PDF, 255KB]

This presentation describes an analysis of how preservation services interact and use digital preservation metadata and how a data dictionary is developed to support them.

The presentation relates to the paper Implementing Metadata that Guides Digital Preservation Services by Angela Dappert and Adam Farquhar (The British Library), presented at iPres2009, 5-6 October 2009, in San Francisco, California, by Angela Dappert. [PDF, 399KB]

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]

Planets is developing a service-oriented environment for the definition and evaluation of preservation strategies for human-centric data. It focuses on the question of logically preserving digital materials, as opposed to the physical preservation of content bit-streams. This includes the development of preservation tools for the automated characterization, migration, and comparison of different types of digital objects as well as the emulation of their original runtime environment in order to ensure long-time access and interpretability.
The Planets integrated environment provides a number of end-user applications that allow data curators to execute and scientifically evaluate preservation experiments based on composable preservation services. Focus of this paper is on the middleware and programming model and on showing how it can be utilized in order to create complex preservation workflows.

Rainer Schmidt, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, gave this presentation at iPres 2009, 5-6 October 2009, in San Francisco, California. [PDF, 441KB]

Digital libraries are increasingly relying on distributed services to support increasingly complex tasks such as retrieval or preservation.
While there is a growing body of services for migrating digital objects into safer formats to ensure their long-term accessability, the quality of these services is often unknown. Moreover, emulation as the major alternative preservation strategy is often neglected due to the complex setup procedures that are necessary for testing emulation. However, thorough evaluation of the complete set of potential strategies in a quantified and repeatable way is considered of vital importance for trustworthy decision making in digital preservation planning.
A preservation action monitoring infrastructure that combines provider-side service instrumentation and quality measurement of migration web services with remote access to emulation is presented.
Tools are monitored during execution, and both their runtime characteristics and the quality of their results are measured transparently. The architecture of the presented framework is described and the results from experiments on migration and emulation services are discussed.

Christoph Becker, Vienna University of Technology, gave this presentation at ECDL 2009, Sept. 27 - Oct. 2 in Corfu, Greece. [PDF, 1250KB]

Custodians of digital content take action when the material that they are responsible for is threatened by, for example, obsolescence or deterioration.
At first glance, ideal preservation actions retain every aspect of the original objects with the highest level of fidelity. Achieving this goal can, however, be costly, infeasible, and sometimes even undesirable. As a result, custodians must focus their attention on preserving the most significant characteristics of the content, even at the cost of sacrificing less important ones. The concept of significant characteristics has become prominent within the digital preservation community to capture this key goal. As is often the case in an emerging field, however, the term has become over-loaded and remains ill-defined. The presentation and paper unpack the meaning that lies behind the phrase, analyze the domain, and introduce clear terminology.

The presentation was delivered at ECDL 2009, Sept. 27 - Oct. 2 in Corfu, Greece. [PDF, 521KB]

Hannes Kulovits (Vienna University of Technology) gave a presentation on the preservation tool Plato and the workflow related to preservation planning at the WePreserve Forum 2009 in Barcelona on 27 March 2009 [PDF, 1643KB]

In this presentation Max Kaiser (Austrian National Library) explains the need for an experimentation framework for digital preservation and systematic assessment of preservation approaches and tools. The Planets Testbed provides a controlled research environment for evaluation of preservation tools wrapped and deployed in the Testbed. When using the Testbed Corpora one can perform experiments without having to expose the institution’s own content and at the same time one can share and browse knowledge obtained through experiments.
The presentation was delivered during the joint DPE/Planets/CASPAR/nestor training event, ‘The Preservation challenge: basic concepts and practical applications’ in Barcelona, 23-26 March 2009.
[PDF, 935KB]

In this presentation Manfred Thaller (University at Cologne) gives an overview of the issues in digital preservation. The presentation was delivered during the joint DPE/Planets/CASPAR/nestor training event, ‘The Preservation challenge: basic concepts and practical applications’ in Barcelona, 23-26 March 2009. [PDF, 781KB]

During this presentation Manfred Thaller (University at Cologne) describes the principle of file formats and discusses what formats to choose for what. With Planets as an example he shows what a consistently dynamic approach looks like, when trying to evaluate the performance of migration tools moving from one format to another, based on automatic analysis of the characteristics of files. He concludes his presentation with some thoughts about which characteristics of digital files do not reside in the file, but in the software which is used to display it and how the approaches discussed before can be extended to take care of these problems. The presentation was delivered during the joint DPE/Planets/CASPAR/nestor training event, ‘The Preservation challenge: basic concepts and practical applications’ in Barcelona, 23-26 March 2009. [PDF, 630KB]

Rainer Schmidt (Austrian Research Centers) presented recent developments on a Job Submission Service that is based on standard grid mechanisms and capable of providing a large cluster of virtual machines. He also presented experimental results conducted on the Amazon EC2 and S3 utility cloud infrastructure.
The presentation was selected as ‘Best Paper’ at INTENSIVE 2009, which was held in Valencia, Spain on 20-25 April 2009.
[PDF, 263KB]

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]

Hans Hofman ((Nationaal Archief Netherlands) introduced and presented the Planets project at the WePreserve Forum 2009 in Barcelona on 27 March 2009. [PDF, 455KB]

In order to develop an appropriate decision making process that will support the management and preservation of digital information new methods are needed and are developed within different European projects, such as Delos and Planets. This presentation by Hans Hofman (Nationaal Archief Netherlands) discusses these new methods and explores the main components of the preservation planning process. An important part is the identification of requirements in a given business context.
The presentation was delivered during the joint DPE/Planets/CASPAR/nestor training event, ‘The Preservation challenge: basic concepts and practical applications’ in Barcelona, 23-26 March 2009. [PDF, 325KB]

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 delivered by Angela Dappert (British Library) during the joint DPE/Planets/CASPAR/nestor training event, ‘The Preservation challenge: basic concepts and practical applications’ in Barcelona, 23-26 March 2009.
Metadata can play a vital role in enabling the effective management, discovery, and re-usability of digital information. Digital preservation metadata provides provenance information, supports and documents preservation activity, identifies technical features, and aids in verifying the authenticity of a digital object. The presentation gives and introduction to Digital preservation metadata and preservation metadata in practise. [PDF, 1096KB]

Jeffrey van der Hoeven (National Library of the Netherlands) presented the emulator 'Dioscuri' at DigCCurr 2009 in Chapel Hill, USA, on 1-3 April 2009.
Dioscuri is an x86 computer hardware emulator written in Java, designed to ensure that documents and programs from the past can still be accessed in the future. The Dioscuri emulator has two key features: it is durable and flexible. [PDF, 3009KB]

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]

Andreas Rauber (University of Vienna) presented Hoppla at DigCCurr 2009 in Chapel Hill, USA, on 1-3 April 2009.
The Hoppla archiving system provides digital preservation solutions specifically for small institutions and offices. It hides the technical complexity of digital preservation challenges by providing automated services based on established best practice examples. Appropriate preservation strategies and required tools for the collection are delivered via a web service, effectively outsourcing the required digital preservation expertise. [PDF, 219KB]

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 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 presentation was made by Manfred Thaller, University of Cologne, at Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future with Planets, British Library Conference Centre, London, 29th July 2008. Extracting characteristics from files is the base line for the automatic handling of a number of important steps in preservation, notably when connected to the evaluation of the quality of migration tools and the automated evaluation of migrations. Planets produces a consistently dynamic approach here, which uses two formal languages to (a) translate format specifications into a machine interpretable language, which allows general purpose software to extract properties from a large number of file formats, and, (b) to map the content of files encoded in a different model into a common content model, which allows automated comparison of the content of two files encoded in different file formats. This presentation concludes with some initial remarks, how this approach can be extended to cover rendering characteristics, which do NOT reside in the files themselves. [PDF, 3516KB]

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 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 Natalie Walters, Wellcome Library, at Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future with Planets, British Library Conference Centre, London, 29th July 2008. The presentation discusses the experiences of The Wellcome Library in working with born digital material, and the approach taken by the library whereby Archivists are taking the lead in this. It also includes a progress report on the procurement of the library's Digital Object Repository, which is currently ongoing. [PDF, 480KB]

This presentation was made by Matthew Woollard, UK Data Archive, at Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future with Planets, British Library Conference Centre, London, 29th July 2008. The UK Data Archive has been acquiring, ingesting, disseminating and preserving social science data on behalf of the Economic and Social Research Council for over 40 years. The first formal preservation policy was published in 2003 and revised in 2005. These versions of the policy were informed more by internal practice than by outside influences. A complete revision of the policy occured in late 2007 and a new policy has been written and is in the process of implementation. This presentation outlines the main influences on the redefinition of this policy and some of the decision-making processes which have led to it. [PDF, 377KB]

This presentation was made by Andreas Rauber, University of Vienna, at Digital Preservation Planning: Principles, Examples and the Future with Planets, British Library Conference Centre, London, 29th July 2008. The presentation introduces workshop participants to the project and its technology, key features of the Planets framework and the tools and services that the project will deliver. [PDF, 1269KB]

The presentation was made by Jean-Marc Comment, Swiss Federal Archives, at the ICA 2008 Congress in Kuala Lumpur, 21-27 July 2008. The presentation gives an introduction to "SIARD" which is a new long-term preservation format for a Software-Independent Archiving of Relational Database. [PDF, 242KB]

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 is a presentation by Joy Davidson, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, given at the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal. The presentation outlines reasons and motivations for collaboration on training activities in Planets, DPE and CASPAR. Topics/themes and objectives for training as well as methods are also mentioned. Promotion, branding and challenges in joining efforts are covered too. [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 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]

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]

Eleonora Nicchiarelli, Austrian National Library, delivered this presentation at the Planning the Future with Planets tutorial at the Austrian Computer Society, Vienna on 14 April 2008. The presentation describes why a testbed is needed, how the Planets Testbed works, and the role it plays in the project. [PDF, 99KB]

Ross King, Austrian Research Centres GmbH, delivered this presentation at the Planning the Future with Planets tutorial at the Austrian Computer Society, Vienna on 14 April 2008. The presentation provides a technical outline of the thinking behind the Planets interoperability framework; the architecture which will make tools and services available via a single platform; an overview of the benefits. The presentation introduces the Planets Service and Data Registries and workflow design tools. [PDF, 925KB]

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]

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]

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]

Andreas Rauber, 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 set out the OAIS preservation planning function; Preservation Planning alerts; a model for translating policy into action; an introduction to preservation planning workflow and the Planets preservation planning tool, Plato. [PDF, 417KB]

Hannes Kulovits, Vienna University of Technology, made this presentation at the Planning the Future with Planets preservation tutorial at the Austrian Computer Society on 15 April 2008. The slides build on the 'Identification of Institutional Setting and Selection of Sample Records' session. They present a practical introduction to defining preservation strategies and alternatives, evaluating the usefulness of strategies, developing and running experiments, evaluating experiments; creating comparable measured values; setting importance factors and analysing results. [PDF, 656KB]

Hannes Kulovits, Vienna University of Technology, delivered this workshop presentation at the Planning the Future with Planets preservation tutorial at the Austrian Computer Society on 15 April 2008. The slides provide a practical introduction to the process of creating a preservation plan using the Planets Plato tool. [PDF, 206KB]

Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, delivered this presentation at the Planning the Future with Planets preservation tutorial at the Austrian Computer Society on 14 April 2008. The presentation looks at the motivation for preservation planning; the processes involved; workflow planning; defining the characteristics of objects, the preservation requirements, a strategy and alternatives; developing, running and evaluating an experiment; analysing the results and determining the preservation plan. [PDF, 710KB]

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]

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

Christoph Becker, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, gave a presentation at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2008 in Ceará, Brazil, on 20 March 2008.
The presentation describes the eXtensible Characterisation Languages (XCL) that support the automatic validation of document conversions and the evaluation of migration quality by hierarchically decomposing a document and representing documents from different sources in an abstract XML language. The context of the development of these languages and tools are presented and the overall concept and features of the languages and how they can be applied to the evaluation of digital preservation solutions are described. [PDF, 1040KB]

Adrian Brown, The National Archives, gave this presentation at the workshop "What to preserve? Significant Properties of Digital Objects" which was jointly organised by JISC, the British Library and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) on 7 April 2008.
In the presentation Adrian Brown gives an overview of Planets and its research in the field preservation characterisation. He also describes representation properties and significant properties as well as the different tools used for preservation characterisation. [PDF, 1511KB]

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 is a presentation given by Christoph Becker, Vienna University of Technology, at the Ninth Russian National Research Conference (RCDL'07) on 17 October 2007 in Pereslavl, Russia. It touches upon the problems concerning digital preservation and the challenges organisations are faced with when having to choose the best strategy for digital preservation. It presents the preservation planning methodology (including the objective tree), Plato (the Planets preservation planning workflow system) and the results of a case study done on the collection and preservation of Austrian theses and dissertations. [PDF, 1234KB]

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]

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]

Hans Hofman, the National Archives of the Netherlands, gave a presentation on Plato and the use of objective trees in preservation planning at the DCC/DPE/DRIVER/nestor joint workshop on 28 November 2007 in Berlin, Germany.

The presentation presents the influencing and deciding factors that go into preservation planning, and the stages you have to go through in the process. It also presents both the "objective tree" and Planets Preservation Planning tool, PLATO. [PDF, 1171KB]

Robert Sharpe, Tessella, gave a presentation on Preservation Characterization at the Tools & Trends conference at National Library of the Netherlands on 1-2 November 2007.

The presentation touches upon the ways files and records can be characterized for preservation, but it also points to problems that may arise in the process. However, it also points to a solution and indicates that Planets will be able to make a difference. [PDF, 91KB]

Manfred Thaller, University of Cologne, gave a presentation on Preservation Characterization at the Tools & Trends conference at National Library of the Netherlands on 1-2 November 2007.

The slides support a highly technical presentation on how characterization of file formats can be done by using the XCEL (eXtensible Characterisation Extraction Language). [PDF, 571KB]

At the Tools & Trends conference at National Library of the Netherlands on 1-2 November 2007 Remco Verdegem, Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands, presented Dioscuri, which is a modular emulator. He also discussed the differences, pros and cons of the emulation and migration strategies, respectively. [PDF, 579KB]

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 Christoph Becker, Vienna University of Technology, at the Tools & Trends conference at Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) on 1-2 November 2007.

The presentation discusses the methodology for preservation strategies, including how to define requirements, and it looks at the preservation plannning tool, Plato, which is developed within the framework of Planets. [PDF, 1661KB]

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 given by Jean-Marc Comment, The Swiss Federal Archives, at the International Workshop on Digital Preservation of Heritage and Research Issues in Archiving and Retrieval (IWDPH 2007) which took place in Kolkata, India on 29-31 October 2007.

The presentation gives an overview of the project, its aims and objectives, and involved partners. It also presents the progress so far and goals to be reached within the next 18 months. Finally it describes the Swiss Federal Archives' work within the Planets project. [PDF, 440KB]

This presentation was given by Jeffrey van der Hoeven at the iPres 2007 conference which took place on October 11-12 2007 in Beijing, China.

The presentation describes the pros and cons of emulation, it outlines the project behind the modular emulator, Dioscuri, and presents the next steps in emulation and Planets. [PDF, 974KB]

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 given by Helen Hockx-Yu, The British Library, at the iPres 2007 conference which took place on October 11-12 2007 in Beijing, China.

The presentation gives an overview of Planets, its aims and objectives, and involved partners. It also lists the partners' motivations for being involved in the project, and provides a status report for progress to date. Finally, the presentation describes to two user scenarios, and mentions a number of goals to be reached by the end of 2008. [PDF, 316KB]

This is a presentation by Jeffrey van der Hoeven, National Library of the Netherlands, given at the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal. It presents the the Dioscuri project, funded by the National Library and National Archive of the Netherlands in 2004, after having recognised the need for emulation, especially for rendering complex digital objects in the future without affecting their authenticity and integrity. Work within Planets on emulation continues from the Dioscuri project. The presentation also contains a useful diagram showing how emulation tools and services fit with other Planets tools and services. [PPT, 3106KB]

This is a presentation by Adrian Brown, The National Archives UK, given at the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal. Tools and services are being developed within Planets to characterise the significant properties of digital objects, which are necessary to support the development of preservation plans and validate preservation actions (evaluating change). The presentation covers achievements to date and provides technical details on the characterisation registry, the Extensible Characterisation Description Language (XCDL) and the Extensible Characterisation Extraction Language (XCEL), and the registry-driven characterisation tool framework. [PPT, 1342KB]

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 is a presentation by Max Kaizer given at the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal. It explains what the testbed is, why we need it and its role within Planets and for the wider digital preservation community. It also explains in great detail the methodology that drives the experiment process within the testbed, as well as the components of the testbed software application. [PPT, 363KB]

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]

This is a presentation by Helen Hockx-Yu given at the 2nd Planets, CASPAR and DPE annual conference, held on 5-6 September 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal. The presentation covers the aims and objectives of the project and outlines Planets’ approach to digital preservation. It also contains a summary of Planets’ progress to date and highlights the key deliverables by November 2008. [PPT, 564KB]

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]

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]

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]

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