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PARSE.Insight and APARSEN Reaching a Common Vision for digital preservation research
David Giaretta
• PARSE.Insight – Important source of information about users and
their views– Identified fundamental threats which
infrastructure can address• APARSEN– Creating a common vision for digital preservation
research– Create a Virtual centre of Excellence
Common Vision
Overview of APARSEN
• FP7 Network of Excellence• 6.8 M€ from EU• 4 years• 32 partners
Rationale and scope• Funding for an NoE in Call 6 is targeted at reinforcing excellence in Europe by structuring
the research capacity in those research disciplines which remain fragmented and would significantly benefit from consolidation. Regarding the research fields under this call (digital preservation, digital libraries, cultural heritage) previously funded work in form of Networks of Excellence (i.e. DELOS and EPOCH) should be taken into account. It is not excluded to present proposals for further integration of research capacity in digital libraries or cultural heritage. However, this should be well justified in terms of the need to overcome continuing and harmful fragmentation and not duplicate the essence of the work already done. The scale of the digital preservation challenge, both in quantity and complexity, goes
beyond the capacity of single institutions or sectors. To tackle this challenge adequately requires concerted and orchestrated efforts, critical mass, as well as synergies of ideas, technology solutions and practices – and this across
disciplines, organisations and across national borders. Stakeholders within and beyond the existing digital preservation community need to be mobilised. Consequently, there could be scope for a Network of Excellence in structuring digital preservation research for the future.
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• Proposals should argue convincingly that the fragmentation of current research effort is hindering research and progress in the area, demonstrate clearly that they bring together existing European excellence in the different research fields involved, and be clear about the
potential for sustainable commitments between the research organisations post-project, including the potential for influence on and leverage of national research activities and funding.
Aims of the project
• The APARSEN NoE brings together an extremely diverse set of practitioner organisations and researchers in order to bring coherence, cohesion and continuity to research into barriers to the long-term accessibility and usability of digital information and data, exploiting our diversity by building a long-lived Virtual Centre of Digital Preservation Excellence.
Building on...
• OAIS Reference Model• CASPAR• PLANETS• DPE• SHAMAN• PARSE.Insight• LOTAR
• Alliance for Permanent Access• Audit & Certification standard• Industrial Vendors
} WePreserve
Why is APARSEN as it is?• Need to deal with all types of digitally encoded information
– Many complex things• Projects like CASPAR, SHAMAN have provided evidence that we
know how to approach this with intellectual rigor
– Research needed for specifics• Things are not cleanly split – RECURSION is key concept• PARSE.Insight has provided a great deal of evidence about what
people are concerned about• Audit & certification will be in place in the next year or so• Vision for 2020 and 2030 developed
Approach• use cross-sectoral cooperation to overcome
fragmentation of the research field and to avoid redundancy and duplication of effort;
• support sustainable integration of research resources and capacities (researchers, services, teams institutions, organisations);
• NoEs are expected to implement a Joint Programme of Activities that requires a formal commitment of the participating organisations.
COMMON TERMINOLOGY IS VITAL
Archival Information
Package
Preservation DescriptionInformation
Content Information further described by
Package Description
Packaging Information
derivedfrom
describedby
delimitedby
identifies
DataObject
RepresentationInformation
Physical Object
Digital Object
Structure Information
Semantic Information
Reference Information
Provenance Information
Context Information
Fixity Information
Other Representation
Information
Interpreted using
Bit
adds meaning
to
Access Rights
Information
Interpreted using
1
*
11...* OAIS Archival Information
Package
Where is Digital Preservation research done?
• Universities?• Libraries• Archives?• Scientific Research Laboratories?• Manufacturers?• Vendors?
The average annual resources devoted to digital preservation research by the consortium partners, over the past few years, is 500K€, so that a conservative estimate of the other digital preservation funding which will be leveraged by APARSEN will be approximately 50M€ over the lifetime of the project.
The funds spent annually on actual preservation of digital objects, including systems, software and hardware is much larger, well over 150M€ over the lifetime of the project.
After the project we believe that APARSEN will continue to influence these levels of expenditure.
• 32 Partners from–Research laboratories–National libraries–Manufacturers–Software vendors
PARTNERS
• AIRBUS• APA • BL• CERN • CINES• CINI • CSC • KNAW-DANS • DNB • DPC • ESA
• FORTH • FRD • FTK • GLOBIT • HA /AFPUM• ICT • IKI• INMARK • KB • LIBER
• LTU • MRL • ONB • SBA • STFC • STM • TESSELLA• UKDA• UNITN • UPAT
E-Infrastructures
Project profile & origins
19
Research (Digital Preservation)
Virtual Centre of Excellence
APARSENNetwork of Excellence
National libraries and
archives
Vendors:IBM/Microsoft
Tessella
Universities & Research Institutes
Big science: CERN/MPI/HA/
STFC/ CINES
Industrial:Airbus, SMEs
CASPAR
PLANETS SHAMAN
HLEG Sci data e-Infr
PARSE.Insight
HLEG Digital Library
ESA LTDP
APA
GENESI-DR
DPC, nestor, STM, LIBER
Users
Innovators
SCIDIP-ES
Integration
Vision
Internal workshops
Common tools & env
Staff exchangesResearch
subsetResearch subsetResearch
subsetResearch subsetResearch
subsetResearch subsetResearch
integration
Spread Excellence
European Organisations and
researchers
USAAsia
Australisia etc
Embed research
Internal sharing ideas
Refine and integrate ideas
Research
Formal qualifications
Training & awareness
Integrated research,
best practice, services,
tools
Vision is linked into all research WPs
Trust
Certification of repositoriesReputation and trustability of datasets, publications and peopleAuthenticityCommon testing environments
Sustainability
Business casesPreservationCost/benefit analysisTransfer of custody – who to hand over to and what to hand overStorage solutions
Usability
IntelligibilityUse by common toolsCross domain usabilityInteroperability
AccessIdentify of datasets, publication, peopleRights and responsibilitiesPolicies and governance
Magic?• no-one has all the answers, and no-one can even see
all the questions • despite that we all tend to defend our own area of
work in which we have invested effort
Approaches• no-one has all the answers, and no-one can even see
all the questions • despite that we all tend to defend our own area of
work in which we have invested effort• It is much easier to work within our own silos but
much more difficult to cut across the boundaries• It is easy to convince ourselves that our work has
wide applicability (if only others would recognise the brilliance of our work and use it!)
• There are many solutions in search of a problem
Testing• We are not mad• We do useful things• However we are forced to “over-sell” what we
do• APARSEN must try to provide a more realistic
view• Each tool/technique has strengths and
weaknesses, applies to some digital objects and not others
TESTING KEEPS US HONEST!