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SCAPEScalable Preservation Environments

2This work was partially supported by the SCAPE Project.The SCAPE project is co funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT 2009.4.1 (Grant Agreement number 270137).‐ ‐

What is SCAPE developing?• Scalable services for

• efficient and automated preservation planning;• execution of preservation actions of large (multi-Terabyte) and

complex data sets.

Read more about the SCAPE project.

SCAPE – what is it about?

Long term digital preservation of large-scale and heterogeneous collections of digital-objects

The SCAPE Consortium brings together a broad spectrum of expertise from

More about the SCAPE partners.

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Introducing SCAPE

This work was partially supported by the SCAPE Project.The SCAPE project is co funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT 2009.4.1 (Grant Agreement number 270137).‐ ‐

Memory institutions

Data centres

Research labs

Universities

Industrial firms

• SCAPE is enhancing the state-of-the-art of long-term digital preservation in terms of

Read more about the SCAPE objectives.

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SCAPE’s contribution to digital preservation

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Scalability of preservation actions

Automation and Quality Assurance of scalable preservation

workflows

Preservation Planning driven by institutional

policies

Preservation activities must become more scalable and automated

The volume of digital content worldwide is increasing exponentially

• SCAPE results will enable organisations to:

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Benefits for Content Holders

This work was partially supported by the SCAPE Project.The SCAPE project is co funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT 2009.4.1 (Grant Agreement number 270137).‐ ‐

Keep pace with the rapid growth of digital collections

Help ensure that their preservation actions have been effective

Fulfill their increasing regulatory obligations

Reduce the risks to their digital material

Preservation Components

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Overview: SCAPE Components

This work was partially supported by the SCAPE Project.The SCAPE project is co funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT 2009.4.1 (Grant Agreement number 270137).‐ ‐

Testbeds

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Overview: SCAPE Components

This work was partially supported by the SCAPE Project.The SCAPE project is co funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT 2009.4.1 (Grant Agreement number 270137).‐ ‐

Testbeds

The SCAPE Testbeds are the primary driver of the rest of

the project in that they determine the use case

scenarios, define the preservation workflows, and

evaluate the platform.

Preservation Components

• The SCAPE Testbeds define preservation issues with a special focus on three application areas:

Read more about the SCAPE Scenarios.

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The Testbeds

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Testbeds

Preservation Components

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Overview: SCAPE Components

This work was partially supported by the SCAPE Project.The SCAPE project is co funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT 2009.4.1 (Grant Agreement number 270137).‐ ‐

The SCAPE Platform is a reference architecture for scalable preservation

environments.

• The SCAPE Platform is an extensible infrastructure that:

Read more about the SCAPE Platform.

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The SCAPE Platform

This work was partially supported by the SCAPE Project.The SCAPE project is co funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT 2009.4.1 (Grant Agreement number 270137).‐ ‐

Provides reliable storage of voluminous data objects and records

Supports the parallel execution of preservation tools and workflows close to the data

Provides a scalable backend which can be attached to different data management systems

Testbeds

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Overview: SCAPE Components

This work was partially supported by the SCAPE Project.The SCAPE project is co funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT 2009.4.1 (Grant Agreement number 270137).‐ ‐

The SCAPE Preservation Components are tools which enhance the functionality of a digital preservation system in:• scalability• functional coverage• quality

Preservation Components

More about Jpylyzer, xcorrSound, and C3PO.

Jpylyzer

• QA tool for validation of images in JPEG 2000 format (JP2):• Validation against

the JP2 format specifications, which ensures that images are standards compliant

• Extracted image and encoding properties can be validated against an institute-specific profile

xcorrSound package

• QA tools for comparison of audio files:• Overlap-analysis:

detects overlaps between two audio files

• Sound-match: finds occurrences of shorter WAV files within larger ones;

• Waveform-compare: analyses audio files for similarity.

C3PO

• Content profiling tool for preservation analysis:• Processes FITS (or

TIKA) meta data files and generates a profile of the content set in an automated fashion

• With the Web App you can visualise, filter, and export the data

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Preservation Components, e.g.

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Overview: SCAPE Components

This work was partially supported by the SCAPE Project.The SCAPE project is co funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT 2009.4.1 (Grant Agreement number 270137).‐ ‐

Preservation Components

The SCAPE Planning and Watch components

address the bottleneck of decision processes

and processing information required for

decision making.

More about SCOUT and PLATO.

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Automated Planning & Watch Components

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Automated Watch Component (SCOUT)

• Gathers information relevant to digital preservation activities (e.g. from repositories, technical registries)

• Provides an automated monitoring system

Automated Planning Component (building

upon PLATO)• Supports decision makers in

producing automated preservation plans based on• individual digital collections• preservation policies• previous preservation plans• controlled experiments

• Integrates with SCOUT and the SCAPE repositories

• In future, SCAPE will

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SCAPE: Scalable Preservation Environments

This work was partially supported by the SCAPE Project.The SCAPE project is co funded by the European Union under FP7 ICT 2009.4.1 (Grant Agreement number 270137).‐ ‐

transform the manner in which content holders safeguard their digital content;

increase confidence in the long-term accessibility and integrity of their collections, at the European, national, and organisational levels;

have a profound impact on the way that digital repositories are designed and built in order to enable scalable preservation services.

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