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Article Information:
Title:
Practical experiences of the Dutch digital preservation test-bed
Author(s):
Remco Verdegem, Jacqueline Slats
Journal:
VINE
Year:
2004
Volume:
34
Issue:
2
Page:
56 - 65
DOI:
10.1108/03055720410531004
Publisher:
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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Abstract:
Digital Preservation test-bed is a three-year practical research project with the overall goal of investigating options to secure sustained accessibility to authentic archival records over the long-term, by carrying out experiments in a controlled and secure environment. This allows one to ascertain the effects of undertaken preservation action on archival records. Test-bed is researching three different approaches to long-term digital preservation: migration, XML and emulation. Not only will the effectiveness of each approach be evaluated, but also their limits, costs and application potential. Experiments take place on four different record types: text documents, spreadsheets, emails and databases of different size, complexity and nature. At the end of 2003 the digital preservation test-bed project was to provide: advice on how to deal with current digital records, recommendations for an appropriate preservation approach or a combination of approaches per record type, functional requirements for a preservation function, cost models of the various preservation strategies, a decision model to select the right preservation strategy, and recommendations concerning archival guidelines and regulations.
Keywords:
Extensible Markup Language, Government, The Netherlands
Article Type:
Research paper