From Theory to Practice session 3 - iPRES HH1

Title: A Question of Character: How do we automatically recharacterize data at cloud scales?

Author(s): Jack O’Sullivan, David Clipsham, Divyesh Soni, Richard Smith and Jonathan Tilbury

Abstract: Many preservation actions that we undertake on digital content are driven by the format of the content in question. Format information is often determined at the point of ingest and is not regularly updated as our knowledge of file formats improves over time. Periodically re-characterizing all content in a repository would ensure that we get more accurate identifications over time, but a more sustainable approach would be to only re-characterize content that was actually likely to have changed. Preservica’s new Automated Active Digital Preservation feature seeks to do exactly this, but even when considering only subsets of the data in our cloud systems, we are faced with significant challenges of scale. In this paper, we describe those challenges, the approach we have taken to implement the feature, and the testing we have performed to verify the viability of this approach.

Type: Long Paper

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Title: The Long And Winding Road: Implementing an Open Source Workflow

Author(s): Karyn Wiliamson

Abstract: This paper will discuss the recent work of the abrdn archive to create and put in place a fully open-source workflow, the barriers faced, and what was learnt from the experience. abrdn plc, an Edinburgh based investment company, is the first financial institution to implement a fully open-source digital preservation workflow. The following text provides an analysis of the work undertaken by the archive thus far and argues that the least important aspect of implementing an open-source workflow is the software selection. Our journey has definitely been a long and winding road with many wrong turns, misleading directions, and occasional problems with running out of fuel, but the outcome has been positive and archive colleagues are keen to find out where the road will lead them next.

Type: Short Paper

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Title: Creating an End-to-End Process for Implementing a Digital Archiving Workflow: How we are putting theory into practice

Author(s): Leo Konstantelos and Emma Yan

Abstract: This paper presents the efforts of Archives and Special Collections (ASC) at the University of Glasgow to produce an end-to-end process for implementing our digital archiving workflow. This will be achieved by conducting a pilot project and in this paper we discuss the project, our methodology and outputs and outcomes.

Type: Short Paper

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Title: Virtualization for processing and accessing digital archives

Author(s): Shelly Black, Brian Dietz and Farrell

Abstract: At a basic level, virtualization is the use of a host computer or server’s resources to run other computing environments. There are many ways in which virtualized computing environments may be deployed and interacted with, including using software to virtualize additional desktops on a local computer (e.g., VirtualBox, Hyper-V Manager, or VMWare) or accessing virtual command line interfaces hosted by a server or computer cluster, and emulating old video game systems on contemporary hardware. Our poster discusses a cross-institutional collaboration on using containerization and desktop virtualization in digital curation at academic special collections libraries.

Type: Short Paper

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