Information Technology Reference
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17.14 Integrated tools
After the identification and implementation of the Key Components, the CASPAR
development activities were spent in the evaluation of provided functionality
and supported scenarios for the Testbed applications. Moreover, the CASPAR
Foundation Team has been involved in many training and dissemination activities
for presenting its own outcomes, in terms of models and prototypes.
In order to simplify and clarify the explanation of preservation issues and solu-
tions, CASPAR has designed and implemented two integrated tools, built on top of
the CASPAR Key Components:
1. The CASPAR Web Desktop
2. The Preservation Scanner (PreScan)
17.14.1 The CASPAR Web Desktop
It has been developed for demonstrating the functionality of each key component
with a web based application. That has been useful for suggesting solutions for the
Testbeds and for showing the functionality during the training and dissemination
events.
Built by adopting the Google Web Toolkit technology, the CASPAR Web
Desktop allows the user to:
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Use the DAMS in order to register and access the CASPAR Preservation Web
Services through a simple web GUI by any browser;
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Use the DRM for managing the digital rights;
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Use the FIND for retrieving information objects;
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Use the KM for managing designated community knowledge base and evaluating
the intelligibility gap;
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Use the POM for notifying and receiving alerts of change events;
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Use the PACK for managing the information packages;
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Use the PDS for storing, maintaining and retrieving information packages;
17.14.2 Preservation Scanner (PreScan)
The preservation of digital objects is a topic of prominent importance for archives
and digital libraries. However the creation and maintenance of “metadata” is a
laborious task that does not always pay off immediately. For this reason there is
a need for tools that automate as much as possible the creation and curation of
preservation “metadata”. PreScan is a tool for automating the ingestion phase. It
can bind together automatically extracted embedded “metadata” with manually pro-
vided “metadata”, and dependency management services. In addition it offers some
features for keeping the “metadata” repository up-to-date. It binds together and
exploits several parts of CASPAR work (i.e. GapManager, SWMK, CIDOC CRM
Digital, Provenance queries, FIND, Cyclops). Specifically:
