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Sustainability and the APARSEN Network of Excellence: Preservation servicesSimon Lambert, Simon.Lambert@stfc.ac.uk

Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK)

8th International Digital Curation ConferenceAmsterdam, 17 January 2013

Workshop on sustainability: Preservation servicesSimon Lambert, STFCIDCC, Amsterdam, 17 January 2013

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Preservation services: the APARSEN approach

• Aim to characterise a set of services covering the spectrum of needs of digital preservation

• Examine what services already exist, are under development, or have potential for development

• Identify both general, infrastructure-type components as well as delimiting applicability of specific services and techniques

• Take into account requirements of different domains

“Services that perform or assist with preservation-related activities or

operations”

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Services as an aspect of sustainability

• Sustainability as one of the “topics” of digital preservation in APARSEN

- Others are trust, usability, access

• What contributes to the ability of digital preservation systems to continue their existence into the future?

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What do we mean by preservation services?

• A somewhat fuzzy definition, but some characteristics are:

- Something that can be shared

- Distinguished from a tool (partly …)

- Could in principle be offered by an external party

• Do we include services carried out by people? (e.g. audit and certification)

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Some examples of services

• Registry/repository of representation information

• Authenticity evidence service

• Persistent identifier resolver

• Characterisation service

• Cloud storage service

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Key questions

• What services are needed for a sustainable infrastructure?

• Conversely, what service offerings already exist or are under development? How may they be delivered?

• Is there a common view on what services can be shared?

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Starting points for mapping services

PARSE.Insight roadmap

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Starting points for mapping services

“Long-Term Preservation Services: A description of LTP services in a Digital Library environment” (by several national libraries)

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What might organisations need in terms of preservation services?

?

From Neil Grindley, JISC

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How to classify services

• Two-dimensional classification seems reasonable

- Type of data

- Service function

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Mapping to the RAC standard

• ISO 16363 “Audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories”

• Offers a detailed specification of criteria by which digital repositories may be audited

• A series of metrics under the following main headings:

- Organizational Infrastructure

- Digital Object Management

- Infrastructure and Security Risk Management

• Each metric is accompanied by discussion and examples of how a repository can show it is meeting the requirement expressed in the metric

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Mapping to the RAC standard

• See separate spreadsheet

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Relation to other sustainability issues

• Storage solutions

- … as a service

• Costs

- … obviously depend on how activities are implemented

• Business cases

- … likewise

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Discussion

• Does the two-sided approach to services make sense? (supply and demand)

• How could we map a landscape of services?

• Are there any services that seem not to be covered by this approach?

• What are your priorities for services?

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