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Long Term Preservation Project Acronym: INDICATE Project Title: International Network for a Digital Cultural Heritage e-Infrastructure Contract Number: 261324 Starting date: 1 September 2010 Ending date: 31 August 2012 Deliverable Number: D 5.1 Title of the Deliverable: Case study report – Long Term Preservation Task/WP related to the Deliverable: Task 5.1 Long Term Preservation Type (Internal or Restricted or Public): Public Author(s): Bahadir Aydinonat, Roberto Barbera, Sergi Fernandez, Antonella Fresa, Ayman Khoury, Stefanos Kollias, Hakan Koray Ozluk, Mercè López, Maurizio Messina, Marzia Piccininno, Sabrina Tomassini, Franc Zakrajsek Partner(s) Contributing: All Contractual Date of Delivery to the CEC: month 12 Actual Date of Delivery to the CEC: October 2011 – updated on January 2012 Project Co-ordinator Company name : Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (ICCU) Name of representative : Rosa Caffo Address : Viale Castro Pretorio 105, I-00185 Roma Phone number : +39.06.49210427 Fax number : +39.06. 06 4959302 E-mail : [email protected] Project WEB site address : http://www.dc-net.org INDICATE Deliverable D5.1 – Final version - Updated 1 Context WP 5 Research Case Studies WPLeader I2CAT Task 5.1 Task 5.1 Long Term Preservation Task Leader MCT Dependencies All WPs Starting date September 2010 Release date October 2011 – updated on January 2012 Author(s) Bahadir Aydinonat, Roberto Barbera, Sergi Fernandez, Antonella Fresa, Ayman Khoury, Stefanos Kollias, Hakan Koray Ozluk, Mercè López, Maurizio Messina, Sama Moustafa, Marzia Piccininno, Sabrina Tomassini, Franc Zakrajsek Contributor(s) All Reviewers Roberto Barbera, Franc Zakrajsek Approved by: Rossella Caffo (ICCU) HISTORY Version Date Author Comments 01 2 August 2011 Sergi Fernandez First version, index and structure 02 2 August 2011 Antonella Fresa First version chapter 3 and chapter 4 03 3 August 2011 Sergi Fernandez Re-structuration and responsabilities 04 4 August 2011 Mercè Lopez, Sergi Updated executive Fernandez summary and chapter 6. 05 8 August 2011 Bahadir Aydinonat Added 2.1, 2.4, 5.3, 6.4.7 06 10 August 2011 Bahadir Aydinonat Change in TOC, 2.4, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3 and annex. 07 11 August 2011 Bahadir Aydinonat Added 10 Conclusion 08 17 August 2011 Hakan Koray Ozluk Added 5. Magazzini Digitali INDICATE Deliverable D5.1 – Final version - Updated 2 09 6 September 2011 Antonella Fresa Added section 2.2 Added section 4.1 Added chapter 7 Added Annex 1 (integrated and edited into the document content from Bahadir file) Added Annex 2 10 7 September 2011 Sabrina Tomassini Updated executive summary Roberto Barbera Updated chapter 6 Mercè López General review Sergi Fernandez Change in TOC, 6.3, 6.4 11 8 September 2011 Sergi Fernandez General review 12 13 September 2011 Frank Zakrajsek Updated chapter 6.3 Sabrina Tomassini General review Mercè López 13 14 September 2011 Ayman Khoury Added chapter 8 Mercè López Updated chapter Frank Zakrajsek 6.3.6. 14 19 September 2011 Stefanos Kollias Added chapter 6.3.3 15 20 September 2011 Marzia Piccininno Updated chapter 4.3 Sama Moustafa Added 6.3.1 Mercè López General review Removed chapter 9 Removed 8.2.5 16 21 September 2011 Mercè López Updated 8.2 and conclusions Bahadir Aydinonat General review 17 29 September 2011 Roberto Barbera Internal review 20 10 October 2011 Antonella Fresa Final versions submitted to EC 21 27 January 2012 Antonella Fresa Added bibliography INDICATE Deliverable D5.1 – Final version - Updated 3 Table of Contents 1 Executive summary ...................................................................................................................................... 7 2 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 8 2.1 Scope of the case study ................................................................................................................ 8 2.2 The liaison with DC-NET ................................................................................................................ 8 2.3 The Workshop in Ankara .............................................................................................................. 9 2.4 The Survey about preservation of digital cultural content ............................................................10 2.4.1 Methodology .......................................................................................................................10 2.4.2 Overview of the results of the survey ...................................................................................11 3 Concept of Preservation ............................................................................................................................ 12 3.1 What is digital preservation .........................................................................................................12 3.2 Digital preservation VS digital curation ........................................................................................13 3.3 Digital preservation threats .........................................................................................................13 3.4 Digital preservation strategies .....................................................................................................14 3.5 Digital preservation standards .....................................................................................................15 3.6 Services that can be constructed to preserve objects ...................................................................16 4 State of the art of preservation ................................................................................................................. 17 4.1 The EC Workshop on digital preservation ....................................................................................17 4.2 EC Projects ..................................................................................................................................17 4.2.1 DPE ......................................................................................................................................17 4.2.2 SHAMANN ...........................................................................................................................18 4.2.3 PLANETS ..............................................................................................................................19 4.2.4 CASPAR ................................................................................................................................20 4.2.5 NESTOR ...............................................................................................................................20 4.2.6 APARSEN .............................................................................................................................21 4.2.7 ENSURE ...............................................................................................................................22 4.2.8 SCAPE ..................................................................................................................................23 4.2.9 PROTAGE .............................................................................................................................23 4.2.10 DIGICURV.............................................................................................................................25 4.2.11 KEEP ....................................................................................................................................25 4.2.12 National Digital Stewardship Alliance ...................................................................................26 4.2.13 We-preserve website initiative ............................................................................................27 4.3 Work on persistent identifiers: DOI, NBN-Italy .............................................................................27 4.3.1 Persistent identifier standards .............................................................................................27 INDICATE Deliverable D5.1 – Final version - Updated 4 4.3.2 NBN Technical Architetcture ................................................................................................28 5 Examples of preservation .......................................................................................................................... 30 5.1 Magazzini Digitali - the Italian Digital Preservation Service ...........................................................30 5.1.1 Technical Architecture .........................................................................................................30 5.1.2 Metadata .............................................................................................................................31 5.1.3 Legal Framework and service model ....................................................................................32 5.2 Long term preservation at the Turkish National Library ...............................................................33 5.2.1 Library and the Collection ....................................................................................................33 5.2.2 Digitization and Preservation ...............................................................................................33 5.2.3 NREN and GRID Connections ................................................................................................34 5.2.4 Policies and Strategies and Technical Information
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