The dominance of digital objects in today's information landscape has changed the way
humankind creates and exchanges information. However, it has also brought an entirely …

During the last decades, digital objects have become the primary medium to create, shape,
and exchange information. However, in contrast to analog objects such as books that …

Digital Preservation Testbed was a practical research project with the overall goal of
investigating options to secure sustained accessibility to authentic archival records over the …

In the problem space of long-term preservation of digital objects, the disciplined use of XML
affords a reasonable solution to many of the issues associated with ensuring the …

Abstract Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), the Dutch scientific data archive
for the social sciences and humanities, is engaged in the Migration to Intermediate XML for …

To date, long-term preservation approaches have comprised of emulation, migration,
normalization, and metadata–or some combination of these. Most existing work has …

The fast changes of technologies in today's information landscape have considerably
shortened the lifespan of digital objects. Digital preservation has become a pressing …

The migration of files in obsolete formats to those expected to survive into the future is a key
task in proposed techniques for the preservation of electronic documents. To this end …

This paper is an extended and updated version of the work reported at iPres 2008. Digital
preservation activities can only succeed if they go beyond the technical properties of digital …

This paper describes a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on Web services
technology designed to assist cultural heritage institutions in the implementation of migration …