Building preservation environments

ABSTRACT

The preservation of digital entities requires data management technologies that are provided by digital libraries and data grids. Digital libraries provide standard data organization and presentation mechanisms. Data grids provide support for infrastructure independence, the ability to incorporate new technology as it becomes available. Preservation environments integrate these technologies to assure the authenticity and integrity of digital entities. We will describe the concepts behind preservation and illustrate the concepts with three data preservation environments based on the NARA research prototype persistent archive, the NHPRC Persistent Archive Testbed, and the NSF NSDL persistent archive.

REFERENCES

• 1: Moore, R., "Preservation Environments," NASA / IEEE MSST2004, Twelfth NASA Goddard / Twenty-First IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, April 2004.
• 2: Smorul, M., J. JaJa, F. McCall, S. F. Brown, R. Moore, R. Marciano, S-Y. Chen, R. Lopez, R. Chadduck, "Recovery of a Digital Image Collection Through the SDSC/UMD/NARA Prototype Persistent Archive," SDSC Technical Report 2003-06, September 2000.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.4 Systems and Software
          Subjects: Distributed systems

General Terms:
Design, Management, Reliability, Security, Standardization

Keywords:
authenticity, infrastructure independence, integrity, persistent archives