Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 18
Overview of the Testbeds
The bulk of the rest of Part II concerns the testbed reports which provide “acceler-
ated lifetime” tests for a variety of datasets over a number of disciplines.
Further background to these scenarios are available from the CASPAR project
deliverable D4101 [
208
] and related material available from the CASPAR deliver-
ables [
209
]. This work was undertaken in the summer of 2009.
18.1 Typical Preservation Scenarios
The following illustrates a typical scenario which guides the CASPAR solutions for
preservation of any particular digitally encoded piece of information.
General steps occur in each scenario
1. The Designated Community is defined by the repository
2. A variety of information is captured about the object including Access rights
and DRM, high level knowledge, various types of Representation Information
etc
a. These artefacts must themselves be preserved i.e. be usable in the future
3. Preservation Aims must be identified
4. A Preservation Analysis must be carried out
5. Preservation workflows
to maintain RepInfo,
using Orchestration,
Knowledge manager, RepInfo toolkit and Registry etc.
In the testbed descriptions we will not repeat these common steps for each sce-
nario, except for detailing the artefacts such as Access Rights or RepInfo which are
created.
