A Future Emulation and Automation Research Agenda

Dirk von Suchodoletz, A Future Emulation and Automation Research Agenda. Automation in Digital Preservation, 2011, vol. 10291. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

[img]
Preview
PDF
future-emu-dp.pdf

Download (135kB) | Preview

English abstract

After significant research and proven usefulness especially for complex, dynamic and interactive objects emulation is not widely adapted in digital preservation at all. While some significant building blocks of emulation based strategies are present a number of components are still unsatisfactory or missing. This paper proposes a research agenda for the future integration of emulation into preservation workflows. It discusses prerequisites and requirements for fully automated services operating in large scale environments. Those include the replacement of user interaction by using a standard interfacing protocol like Virtual Network Computing, proper system image and software components archiving and the ''preservation aware'' emulator. To achieve this additional channels to control the emulator and monitor its states are required. This paper analyses the state of the art in emulation and motivates the need for introducing additional control channels.

Item type: Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords: digital preservation, future emulation research agenda, open source emulators, data transport, API, workflow automation, software archive, preservation awareness
Subjects: J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JH. Digital preservation.
L. Information technology and library technology > LZ. None of these, but in this section.
Depositing user: Dirk von Suchodoletz
Date deposited: 03 Jan 2011
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:18
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/15239

References

Christoph Becker, Hannes Kulovits, Mark Guttenbrunner, Stephan Strodl, Andreas Rauber, and Hans Hofman. Systematic planning for digital preservation: evaluating potential strategies and building preservation plans. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 10:133–157, 2009.

Christoph Becker, Hannes Kulovits, Michael Kraxner, Riccardo Gottardi, Andreas

Rauber, and Randolph Welte. Adding quality-awareness to evaluate migration

web-services and remote emulation for digital preservation. In Proceedings of the

13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL09), 2009.

Adam Farquhar and Helen Hockx-Yu. Planets: Integrated services for digital

preservation. International Journal of Digital Curation, 2(2), 2007.

Brian Hole, Li Lin, Patrick McCann, and Paul Wheatley. Life: A predictive costing

tool for digital collections. In Andreas Rauber, Max Kaiser, Rebecca Guenther,

and Panos Constantopoulos, editors, 7th International Conference on Preservation

of Digital Objects (iPRES2010) September 19 - 24, 2010, Vienna, Austria, volume

262, pages 359–364. Austrian Computer Society, 2010.

Mario Philipps. Entwurf und implementierung eines Softwarearchivs für die digitale

Langzeitarchivierung. Master’s thesis, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, July

2010.

Klaus Rechert, Dirk von Suchodoletz, and Randolph Welte. Emulation based

services in digital preservation. In JCDL ’10: Proceedings of the 10th annual joint

conference on Digital libraries, pages 365–368, New York, NY, USA, 2010. ACM.

Klaus Rechert, Dirk von Suchodoletz, Randolph Welte, Maurice van den Dobbel-

steen, Bill Roberts, Jeffrey van der Hoeven, and Jasper Schroder. Novel workflows

for abstract handling of complex interaction processes in digital preservation. In

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Ob-

jects (iPRES09), 2009.

Jasper Schroder and Raymond van Diessen. Digital asset preservation tool. Online,

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/uvc, September 2010.

The National Archives TNA.

The technical registry pronom.

Online,

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom, 2010. Online resource.

Maurice van den Dobbelsteen, Dirk von Suchodoletz, and Klaus Rechert. Soft-

ware archives as a vital base for digital preservation strategies.

Online,

http://eprints.rclis.org/18764/, July 2010.

Jeffrey van der Hoeven. Dioscuri: emulator for digital preservation. D-Lib Maga-

zine, 13(11/12), 2007.

Jeffrey van der Hoeven, Sophie Sepetjan, and Marcus Dindorf. Legal aspects of

emulation. In Andreas Rauber, Max Kaiser, Rebecca Guenther, and Panos Con-

stantopoulos, editors, 7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Ob-

jects (iPRES2010) September 19 - 24, 2010, Vienna, Austria, volume 262, pages

113–120. Austrian Computer Society, 2010.

Jeffrey van der Hoeven and Dirk von Suchodoletz. Emulation: From digital artefact

to remotely rendered environments. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Con-

ference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES08), pages 93–98, The British

Library, St. Pancras, London, 2008. The British Library.

Remco Verdegem and Jeffrey van der Hoeven. Emulation: To be or not to be. In

IS&T Conference on Archiving 2006, Ottawa, Canada, May 23-26, pages 55–60,

2006.

Dirk von Suchodoletz. Funktionale Langzeitarchivierung digitaler Objekte – Er-

folgsbedingungen f¨r den Einsatz von Emulationsstrategien. Cuvillier Verlag

u

G¨ttingen, 2009.

o

Dirk von Suchodoletz. Requirements for emulation as a long-term preservation

strategy. Online, http://eprints.rclis.org/18984/, July 2009.

Dirk von Suchodoletz.

Das softwarearchiv - eine erfolgsbedingung f¨r

u

die langzeitarchivierung digitaler objekte.

Mitteilungen der Vereinigung

¨

Osterreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare, 63(3):38–55, 2010.

Dirk von Suchodoletz, Klaus Rechert, Jeffrey van der Hoeven, and Jasper Schroder.

Seven steps for reliable emulation strategies – solved problems and open issues. In

Andreas Rauber, Max Kaiser, Rebecca Guenther, and Panos Constantopoulos, edi-

tors, 7th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES2010)

September 19 - 24, 2010, Vienna, Austria, volume 262, pages 373–381. Austrian

Computer Society, 2010.

Randolph Welte. Funktionale Langzeitarchivierung digitaler Objekte – Entwicklung eines Demonstrators zur Internet-Nutzung emulierter Ablaufumgebungen.

S¨dwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften, 2009.


Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item