Apart from being a technological issue, digital preservation raises several organizational challenges. These challenges are starting to be addressed in the industrial design and e-Science domains, where emerging requirements cannot be addressed directly by OAIS. Thus, new approaches to design and assess digital preservation environments are required. We propose a Reference Architecture as a too...

This paper describes efforts to develop an online repository of Indonesian corpora –and its associated functions and services– that has been designed to support a wide variety of use cases and applications. Two design considerations are ensuring sustainability and accessibility of the corpora, and enabling open enrichment through annotation. The presented model supports OLAC-compliant metadata,...

The Florida Digital Archive (FDA) is a long-term preservation repository for the use of the libraries of the public universities of Florida. The FDA uses locallydeveloped software called DAITSS, which was designed to perform the major functions of Ingest, Archival Storage, Data Management and Dissemination in the OAIS reference model. A DAITSS 2 project is in process to re-write the application...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of XML formatted data unit (XFDU) technology to implement OAIS-based information packaging in the CASPAR project. Design/methodology/approach – The paper outlines new tools and techniques in working with XFDU for the purpose of preserving complex digital information. Findings – The preservation of digital assets was facilitated by using...

RÉSUMÉ. La création musicale contemporaine comme d’autres formes de création, telle la scénographie fait largement appel à des dispositifs numériques. La préservation de ces dispositifs est problématique en raison de leur forte dépendance au système sous-jacent (hardware et software), de même que leur compréhension et leur interprétation dans le cadre d’une analyse de type musicologique. Nous p...

There is no strong reason to believe human level intelligence represents an upper limit of the capacity of artificial intelligence, should it be realized. This poses serious safety issues, since a superintelligent system would have great power to direct the future according to its possibly flawed goals or motivation systems. Oracle AIs (OAI), confined AIs that can only answer questions, are one...

To preserve digitally encoded information over the long term following the OAIS Reference Model requires that this information remains accessible, understandable and usable by a specified Designated Community. These are significant challenges for repositories, particularly when dealing with scientific data where the semantics must be associated with the data so that one can answer the basic que...

Institutional repositories are considered an important method of capturing research outputs and disseminating them to a wider public. Thus far, the initial focus of activity has been on the process of establishing repositories and handling issues associated with the deposit of academic research. Given the experimental nature of many of these projects, few are able to dedicate staff or funding t...