A Presentation by Michael Carden
The overview:
What records does the NAA preserve?
How do digital records fit in?
Why do we need to do 'digital preservation?'
How might digital preservation be done?
What has the NAA decided to do?
The importance of open source.
The software (all GPL):
Xena - XML Electronic Normalising for Archives
http://xena.sourceforge.net
DPR - Digital Preservation Recorder
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dpr
Quest - Query Electronic Storage
https://sourceforge.net/projects/quest-archiv/
(CVS only)
The technical detail:
XML schema for preservation - metadata and where to put it.
Identifying data format types programmatically.
Normalising to open formats - open standards.
Presenting normalised data.
Normaliser and file namer plugin architecture.
Integration with 3rd party preservation applications (e.g. DSpace, Fedora, Eprints)