Planets preservation planning tool

Andreas Rauber acted as Senior Advisor to the core team. Plato is integrating and using tools and services from a variety of sources. Our documentation page contains several papers explaining the challenges addressed by the incorporation of these components. One of the key results of SCAPE is an automated planning component that brings together repository operations and policies with content, action components, measures, and automated watch to provide a traceable lifecycle of operational planning.

During the project the capabilities of the automated planning component based on the planning tool Plato have been substantially enhanced in terms of automation and scalability.

In general the SCAPE project has enhanced the state of the art of digital preservation in three ways: by developing infrastructure and tools for scalable preservation actions; by providing a framework for automated, quality-assured preservation workflows and by integrating these components with a policy-based preservation planning and watch system. These concrete project results have be validated within three large-scale Testbeds from diverse application areas: Digital Repositories from the library community, Web Content from the web archiving community, and Research Data Sets from the scientific community.

Each Testbed has been selected because it highlights unique challenges. SCAPE has developed scalable services for planning and execution of institutional preservation strategies on an open source platform that orchestrates semi-automated workflows for large-scale, heterogeneous collections of complex digital objects. He then walked through a set of scenarios to identify the most appropriate format to use to preserve content for a simple Word document with a footnote.

Outcomes conflicted, depending on whether the focus was on the rendering or the structure of the documents. The prescient message was: characterising digital objects will never be viable if conducted manually. It can only be realised if automated to a point where the process can be condensed from months or years to seconds. Sensitive and confidential documents remain a challenge. Matthew started the presentation with a definition of what a testbed was - which was useful to the non-technical members of the audience.

Matthew provided an overview of the Planets testbed - a key component in relation to identifying appropriate strategies and actions to preserve formats with particular characteristics.

Incorporating a testbed into Planets supports digital preservation decisions. The testbed provides facts about the utility of tools and services regardless of institutional setting. He outlined how the testbed fitted into the Planets architecture as part of the characterisation activity stream. A key reason for adopting the testbed approach would be to avoid duplication of effort amongst partners, to share results and to ensure a common understanding amongst the players.

All of which are particularly pertinent in the area of preservation planning where there is still a requirement for a dedicated research environment to allow systematic execution of experiments by the participating partners. The current iteration v0. Software can be downloaded [ 8 ]. There followed a walk-through of the testbed and the routes and decisions a user could follow. And so over to the audience. This session invited the audience to ask questions relating to the needs within their organisations.

To close the day, the delegates determined a number of issues that needed resolution:. The final part of the day was an opportunity for debate and discussion between the presenters and the audience.

A recurrent theme throughout the discussions was sustainability and ongoing support for Planets once the project finishes. Feedback says: substantially yes.

There was a high degree of interaction. There was consideration of policy and strategy. There was some — if limited — experience of tools. And a sense that solutions are begining to be developed. But, there is also, among those closest to the problem, a keenness to understand best practice and anticipation of tools to support the process.

We hope that another event will follow in Spring — so watch this space — well, a DPC or Planets space! Key messages were: Planning is the cornerstone of preserving digital objects Planning should take into account the needs of an organisation, its collections and users Planning is an extension of local business strategies and priorities IT, teaching and learning etc. An Introduction to Planets Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology In the opening session, Andreas Rauber explained that while Planets aims to provide a technological and architectural solution to the process of preserving digital content, at the heart of it, it takes account of the needs of a wide range of European cultural heritage institutions.

What strategies are available and what are the strengths and weaknesses of each? X reference manual for instruction on how to do this. There were some changes so it might not be the same for all versions. Run it via. You can use JBoss AS 7. Copy the file standalone. Download Picketlink 2. Use To use the tool, start up JBoss 7 and navigate with your browser to e.

Features and roadmap Version 4. Releases 5 tags. Packages 0 No packages published. Contributors 9.