DocumentCode :
3462060
Title :
A semi-automated digital preservation system based on semantic Web services
Author :
Hunter, Jane ; Choudhury, Sharmin
Author_Institution :
DSTC PTY Ltd, Brisbane, Qld., Australia
fYear :
2004
fDate :
7-11 June 2004
Firstpage :
269
Lastpage :
278
Abstract :
We describe a Web-services-based system, which we have developed to enable organizations to semiautomatically preserve their digital collections by dynamically discovering and invoking the most appropriate preservation service, as it is required. By periodically comparing preservation metadata for digital objects in a collection with a software version registry, potential object obsolescence can be detected and a notification message sent to the relevant agent. By making preservation software modules available as Web services and describing them semantically using a machine-processable ontology (OWL-S), the most appropriate preservation service(s) for each object can then be automatically discovered, composed and invoked by software agents (with optional human input at critical decision-making steps). We believe that this approach represents a significant advance towards providing a viable, cost-effective solution to the long term preservation of large-scale collections of digital objects.
Keywords :
digital libraries; semantic Web; software agents; Web-services-based system; decision-making; digital object large-scale collections; machine-processable ontology; preservation metadata; semantic Web services; semiautomated digital preservation system; software agents; software modules; software version registry; Australia; Computer architecture; Emulation; Humans; Object detection; Ontologies; Semantic Web; Software agents; Software libraries; Web services;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Digital Libraries, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-58113-832-6
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/JCDL.2004.1336136
Filename :
1336136
Link To Document :
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