SCAPE at upcoming conferences (July-September 2013)

The SCAPE project will be presenting updates on the ongoing research of the project during several largescale events this summer:

July 2013

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Open Repositories 2013, 7-12 July, Charlottetown, Canada

9 July, 16.30 – 17.00: Luís Faria, Miguel Ferreira (KEEP Solutions), Christoph Becker, Krešimir Đuretec (TU Vienna), José Carlos Ramalho (University of Minho), “Supporting the preservation lifecycle in repositories

Abstract: To accomplish effective digital preservation, repositories need to be able to incorporate processes such as planning, monitoring and preservation operations. These processes feed into each other and create a continuous cycle that allows a repository to detect opportunities and risks and act accordingly. Each of these digital preservation processes have already been extensively studied and tools to support each process have already been developed, but many repository implementations still lack complete and continuous digital preservation features. This paper presents a global view on digital preservation processes and how they fit together in a digital preservation cycle. Furthermore, it describes tools that support these processes and explains how to incrementally integrate them into digital repositories providing a complete systematic and semi-automatic digital preservation system.

 

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JCDL’13, 22-26 July, Indianapolis, USA.

Christoph Becker and Krešimir Đuretec (TU Vienna), “Free Benchmark Corpora for Preservation Experiments: Using Model-Driven Engineering to Generate Data Sets”

Abstract: Digital preservation is an active area of research, and recent years have brought forward an increasing number of characterisation tools for the object-level analysis of digital content. However, there is a profound lack of objective, standardised and comparable metrics and benchmark collections to enable experimentation and validation of these tools. While fields such as Information Retrieval have for decades been able to rely on benchmark collections annotated with ground truth to enable systematic improvement of algorithms and systems along objective metrics, the digital preservation field is yet unable to provide the necessary ground truth for such benchmarks. Objective indicators, however, are the key enabler for quantitative experimentation and innovation.

This paper presents a systematic model-driven benchmark generation framework that aims to provide realistic approximations of real-world digital information collections with fully known ground truth that enables systematic quantitative experimentation and measurement and improvement against objective indicators. We describe the key motivation and idea behind the framework, outline the technological building blocks, and discuss results of the generation of page-based and hierarchical documents from a ground truth model. Based on a discussion of the benefits and challenges of the approach, we outline future work.

 

September 2013

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Of course SCAPE will also be present at one of the largest conferences in the digital preservation field, iPres2013 (2-5 September, Lisbon, Portugal). The preliminary programme is available from http://ipres2013.ist.utl.pt/: below you can find an overview of contributions related to the research being done in the SCAPE project.

Workshops and tutorials

  • Workshop: Open Research Challenges in Digital Preservation (ORC2013): an interactive event focusing on discussions and inspirational exchange between participants on challenging new research questions, organised by Christoph Becker, Andreas Rauber and Christopher Lee (TU Vienna) – the call for contributions is open until 12 July!
  • Tutorial: Tools for uncovering preservation risks in your large repositories: demonstrates and provides a hands-on on how to find preservation risks in your content and, at the same time, share your content profile information with others to open new opportunities, organised by – Luís Faria (KEEP Solutions), Krešimir Đuretec, Artur Kulmukhametov and Andreas Rauber (TU Vienna)

Papers

  • “Automatic Preservation Watch using Information Extraction on the Web” – Luís Faria (KEEP Solutions), Alan Akbik (TU Berlin), Barbara Sierman, Marcel Ras (KB National Library of the Netherlands), Miguel Ferreira (KEEP Solutions) and José Carlos Ramalho (University of Minho)
  • “An Analysis of Contemporary JPEG2000 Codecs for Image Format Migration” – William Palmer, Peter May and Peter Cliff (British Library)
  • “Preservation Policy Levels in SCAPE” – Barbara Sierman (KB National Library of the Netherlands), Catherine Jones (STFC), Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester) and Gry Elstrøm (State and University Library Denmark)
  • “Open Preservation Data: Controlled vocabularies and ontologies for preservation ecosystems” – Hannes Kulovits, Michael Kraxner, Markus Plangg, Christoph Becker (TU Vienna) and Sean Bechhofer (University of Manchester)
  • “A Risk Analysis of File Formats for Preservation Planning” – Roman Graf and Sergiu Gordea (Austrian Institute of Technology)

Posters and demonstrations

  • “The SCAPE Planning and Watch suite” – Michael Kraxner, Markus Plangg, Krešimir Đuretec, Christoph Becker (TU Vienna) and Luís Faria (KEEP Solutions)
  • “Quality assured image file format migration in large digital object repositories” – Sven Schlarb (Austrian National Library), Peter Cliff, Peter May, William Palmer (British Library), Matthias Hahn (FIZ Karlsruhe), Reinhold Huber-Mörk, Alexander Schindler, Rainer Schmidt (Austrian Institute of Technology) and Johan van der Knijff (KB National Library of the Netherlands)

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