PANIC: An integrated approach to the preservation of composite digital objects using semantic web services

Hunter, Jane and Choudhury, Sharmin (2006) PANIC: An integrated approach to the preservation of composite digital objects using semantic web services. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 6 2: 174-183.

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Author(s) Hunter, Jane
Choudhury, Sharmin
Title PANIC: An integrated approach to the preservation of composite digital objects using semantic web services
Journal name International Journal on Digital Libraries  (ERA 2012 Listed)    (ERA 2010 Rank B)
Publication date 2006-04
Sub-type Article
Volume number 6
Issue number 2
ISSN 1432-5012; 1432-1300
Start page 174
End page 183
Total pages 10
Place of publication Heidelberg, Germany
Publisher Germany
Language eng
Subject 280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences
Abstract To date, long-term preservation approaches have comprised of emulation, migration, normalization, and metadata - or some combination of these. Most existing work has focussed on applying these approaches to digital objects of a singular media type: text, HTML, images, video or audio. In this paper, we consider the preservation of composite, mixed-media digital objects, a rapidly growing class of resources. We describe an integrated, flexible system that we have developed, which leverages existing tools and services and assists organizations to dynamically discover the optimum preservation strategy as it is required. The system captures and periodically compares preservation metadata with software and format registries to determine those objects (or sub-objects) at risk. By making preservation software modules available as Web services and describing them semantically using a machine-processable ontology (OWL-S), the most appropriate preservation service(s) for each object (or sub-object) can then be dynamically discovered, composed and invoked by software agents (with optional human input at critical decision-making steps). The PANIC system successfully illustrates how the growing array of available preservation tools and services can be integrated to provide a sustainable, collaborative solution to the long-term preservation of large-scale collections of complex digital objects.
Keyword(s) Preservation
Semantic Web services
METS
MPEG-21
OWL-S
Q-Index Code C1
Q-Index Status Confirmed Code
Institutional Status Non-UQ
 
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