Monday 14th December, Palazzo Incontri (Sala Verde) - Firenze
The event will bring together international experts who will develop a one-day full immersion tutorial about issues related to long term preservation of digital objects. The tutorial will start setting the scene about current initiatives and approaches, then it will give participants an understanding of the key digital preservation issues and decisions to be taken during the lifelong cycle of a digital archive. Some clear concepts, recommendations and “to do” list of things will be strongly presented. The major challenges and the most prospective solutions will be introduced, even if findings in this field are not so mature. The experts will define needs and experiences about the specific cultural heritage sector, providing the audience with some technical recommendations about standards on digital archives, metadata, digital formats, strategies and criteria to certify tools and practices, check risks and help to take the right decisions for preservation planning. After lunch, the session will start with an interactive hands-on work, where concrete experiences and practical tools developed by some of the most important European projects will be briefly presented and demonstrated.
Target audience is librarians, archivists, museum curators, students, researchers and professionals in the sector of digital archives management, digital libraries, Internet applications and multimedia content creators.
Thanks to
Programme of Lecturers
Mariella GUERCIO, Università degli Studi di Urbino
Topic: Preserving digital records trustworthy over the long term: concepts and principles. Two of the most challenging issues presented by digital technology to the records, archives and legal professions, and to researchers, businesses, government, and the public, are the identification of records among all the digital objects produced by complex digital systems and the determination of their authenticity. In this session, you will learn the concept of record in the digital environment and the various types of static and dynamic records. As a group, we will explore the concepts of reliability, accuracy, authenticity, and authentication in relation to those records and the various ways of ensuring digital records trustworthiness through time.
Topic: The presentation will explain the importance of creating and maintaining preservation metadata to support digital preservation strategies. It will discuss the ISO Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) information model and provide a brief introduction to some preservation metadata specifications, e.g., the VERS model.
Topic: Prof. Tibbo will describe the origins, issues, and next steps in designing and implementing an ISO international standard for auditing and certifying Trusted Digital Repositories. She will describe the process of working from other guidelines and tools including the Trusted Repository Audit and Certification Checklist (TRAC), DRAMBOA, and nestor, and discuss implications for a wide variety of repositories.
Topic: Authenticity, integrity, certification, uniqueness and accessibility of digital contents on Internet. Persistent Identifiers for digital resources: a way to create trustability about intangible digital objects. The Italian national register and the jNBN software developed with the CNR.
Topic: Experience at the Library of Congress about digital preservation related issues and challenges.
Topic: Magazzini digitali (Digital stacks) project and first experience in Italy about legal deposit of digital content. First results in setting up a national infrastructure based on a long term framework. The basic principles underlying this framework will be presented and discussed.
Topic: DPE project: risk management strategies for trustable digital repositories. Criteria and approaches to audit and verify performances, trustability and risk identification of your digital repository. The DRAMBORA tool: concepts and demonstration.
Topic: CASPAR Project: An OAIS-based solution to the preservation of digital information. General architecture and analysis of the CASPAR approach to authenticity.
Topic: PLANETS project tools: The Planets Interoperability Framework, the Testbed, Plato, and XCL related tools for preservation planning in cultural heritage institutions.
