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A Framework for Distributed Preservation Workflows

by Rainer Schmidt, Ross King, Andrew Jackson, Carl Wilson, Fabian Steeg, Peter Melms
iPRES 2009 the Sixth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (2010)

Abstract

The Planets project is developing a service-oriented environment for the definition and evaluation of preservation strategies for human-centric data. It focuses on the question of logically preserving digital materials, as opposed to the physical preservation of content bit-streams. This includes the development of preservation tools for the automated characterization, migration, and comparison of different types of digital objects as well as the emulation of their original runtime environment in order to ensure longtime access and interpretability. The Planets integrated environment provides a number of end-user applications that allow data curators to execute and scientifically evaluate preservation experiments based on composable preservation services. In this paper, we focus on the middleware and programming model and show how it can be utilized in order to create complex preservation workflows.

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The International Journal of Digital Curation
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A Framework for Distributed Preservation Workflows
Rainer Schmidt, Ross King,
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Andrew Jackson, Carl Wilson,
The British Library
Fabian Steeg, Peter Melms,
University of Cologne
Abstract
The Planets Project is developing a service-oriented environment for the definition and evaluation
of preservation strategies for human-centric data. It focuses on the question of logically preserving
digital materials, as opposed to the physical preservation of content bit-streams. This includes the
development of preservation tools for the automated characterisation, migration, and comparison of
different types of Digital Objects as well as the emulation of their original runtime environment in
order to ensure long-time access and interpretability. The Planets integrated environment provides a
number of end-user applications that allow data curators to execute and scientifically evaluate
preservation experiments based on composable preservation services. In this paper, we focus on the
middleware and programming model and show how it can be utilised in order to create complex
preservation workflows.1
1 This article is based on the paper given by the authors at iPRES 2009; received January 2010,
published June 2010.
The International Journal of Digital Curation is an international journal committed to scholarly excellence and
dedicated to the advancement of digital curation across a wide range of sectors. ISSN: 1746-8256 The IJDC is
published by UKOLN at the University of Bath and is a publication of the Digital Curation Centre.
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Introduction
There is a vital need to electronically preserve our cultural heritage as well as the
digital outcomes of today’s research. Ensuring long-term access to the plethora of
existing digital file formats has become an important research challenge, in particular
in the context of memory institutions. In addition to the physical preservation of the
content bit-streams, a preservation system must ensure the interpretability of the
Digital Objects with current and future applications in order to prevent a loss of
information. The development of preservation plans and automated workflows
represents a major research goal in this area. The Planets project develops an
integrated environment for the development and evaluation of preservation strategies
for cultural heritage data. It focuses on preservation requirements faced by cultural
heritage institutions, in particular those of national libraries and archives (Farquhar &
Hockx-Yu, 2007).
A major problem is imposed by the diversity and richness of the human-centric
data. A large amount of the digital information produced is, for example, stored in the
form of word processor documents. In order to preserve this sort of data, one must be
able to cope with a diversity of document formats. These formats often exist in various
versions, are application-specific and/or depend on underlying operating systems in
order to be interpreted successfully. In addition to rich formatting information,
documents may contain and reference a variety of other objects such as fonts,
embedded metadata, document history, images and so on. Even if an archivist only
considers a relatively small class of objects types for preservation (e.g., eprints), it can
require considerable effort to transform the digital items into a format suitable for
archiving, while verifying the authenticity and ensuring that no significant information
had been lost during the transformation. This requires the deployment, evaluation, and
operation of a large number of individual data processing tools, rendering
environments, and software platforms. The preservation of digital materials can
therefore become a labour-intensive and tedious process for the data curators
responsible for this work.
These shortcomings have led to the development of an integrated environment
that supports the design, evaluation, and execution of preservation strategies. The
Planets integrated environment provides a number of end-user applications that allow
preservation experts to conduct experiments based on a large number of preservation
services. The system integrates existing content repositories, preservation tools, and
services into a distributed research infrastructure. It allows data curators to import
digital collections, assemble and execute complex workflows, and evaluate the results.
Here, we outline the underlying software infrastructure, known as the Planets
Interoperability Framework (IF), which integrates the various heterogeneous
preservation components into a coherent preservation system, based on a service-
oriented architecture. Such components range from command-line utilities, software
libraries, and online services, to emulated hard- and software environments. An
emulator designed for digital preservation purposes has been described in van der
Hoeven, Lohman, and Verdegem (2007).
The IF workflow programming environment employs a component model that is
specifically designed for the development of preservation processes. We provide an
extensible set of preservation components that can easily be assembled into complex
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executable workflows. The data flow between the components is reflected by a Digital
Object model that is capable of wrapping up different types of content (files, streams,
hierarchical data structures) as well as encapsulate relationships, provenance
information, and other metadata. In this paper, we outline some of the basic operations
that are implemented by (currently more than 50) Planets preservation services. The
interfaces are compatible with each other and operate based on a minimal data
abstraction outlined later in this paper.
Service-Oriented Approach
Managing the ever-increasing volumes of data provides a research problem across
many academic areas. Examples include data produced in areas such as science,
engineering, and the arts and humanities (Hey & Trefethen, 2003). Digital libraries and
archiving services are responsible for the organisation, preservation, and publication of
data products and primary data. An important factor for the scalability of digital
repositories is the automation of data management policies (Rajasekar, Wan, Moore, &
Schroeder, 2006). An example of the implementation of digital curation strategies
using rule-based service enforcement is provided by the iRods system (Hedges, Hasan,
& Blanke, 2007). Further effort is undertaken by the Clarin project2, which develops a
service-oriented infrastructure for the automated processing of linguistic resources.
However, it is clear that preservation management for digital repositories cannot be
fully automated but requires the continuous effort of data curators. Research
infrastructures, however, can greatly enhance the capabilities of their participants by
fostering collaboration and access to remote and heterogeneous resources. Here, we
present a system that assists preservation experts in the development of preservation
strategies. It allows users to utilise and assess a large range of preservation tools and to
access remote data collections based on a service-oriented system.
The Planets Interoperability Framework provides an environment that implements
a number of core software components (King, Schmidt, Jackson, Wilson, & Steeg,
2009), providing the technical backbone of a Planets instance. These components
include authorisation and authentication, workflow execution, service discovery, data
and metadata management. As a whole, the framework is capable of creating an
integrated environment that supports, controls, and secures the interaction of user
applications with the distributed backend service infrastructure. The system is accessed
by practitioners through a set of Web-based applications that aid the user in the
development and execution of preservation experiments. Two applications that make
use of the preservation framework are the Testbed application3 (Aitken et al., 2008)
and the Preservation Planning Tool4 Plato (Becker, Kulovits, Rauber, & Hofman,
2008). These applications provide graphical interfaces for the evaluation of
preservation strategies and decision support for preservation planning, respectively.
Figure 1 illustrates the high-level system architecture which is separated here into
three distributed layers. The central component of the architecture is provided by the
Planets Gateway Server (GS) which provides a controlled environment that operates
on top of a large number of preservation and other services (S1...Sn). The gateway
basically provides two communication substrates: firstly, a range of Web services
2 CLARIN: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure: http://www.clarin.eu/
3 Planets Testbed – Welcome: http://testbed.planets-project.eu/testbed/
4 Welcome to Plato, the Planets Preservation Planning Tool:
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp/plato/intro.html
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interfaces (Portal Services) that provide the user applications with the required means
to utilise the service infrastructure in a secured, controlled, and reproducible way;
secondly, an API (WFlow) for defining preservation workflows based on a set of
unified components, which are outlined later in this paper.
Figure 1. Preservation Gateway Layers.
Digital Object Model
The Planets Service API5 employs a generic data abstraction, the Planets Digital
Object. Digital Objects encapsulate the concept of single digital entities. They may be
composed of one or more byte-streams and be associated with metadata. The data
abstraction is used to represent digital entities that are consumed and/or produced by
the services within the Planets infrastructure. For example, the workflow system can
be used to obtain a Digital Object from a repository service, apply a preservation
service, and deposit the resulting object via the Data Registry Service. It is important
to note that the Digital Object abstraction does not implement a full-blown repository
data model. The Digital Object model is intended to provide a minimal data abstraction
that can be mapped against records retrieved from existing repository systems and vice
versa. Moreover, the object model needs to be sufficiently expressive to reflect the
preservation process and its outcomes, for example events, manifestations, object
characteristics.
Figure 2. Schematic representation of the Digital Object Model.
Figure 2 shows a schematic representation of the Planets Digital Object
implementation. In general, a Digital Object represents a referenceable content entity
and its associated metadata. Digital Objects can hold a set of bibliographic default
properties for instance a name (mandatory), author, or a human readable description.
5 A Java-based Application Programming Interface.
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They provide space for basic metadata, such as repository URL and format, and also
for arbitrary tagged metadata chunks. This form avoids any need to prescribe the
nature of the high-level data model, while still allowing such metadata to be associated
with an object. File formats are specified in the form of URIs based on the PRONOM
ID schema (Brown, 2005) (e.g., info:pronom/fmt/122 for EPS version 1.2). The
Planets Technical Registry provides a utility that translates between the PUID schema
and the more general MIME types. An example of technical metadata is a checksum
algorithm and value. Planets defines a basic type set of events; examples are creation,
characterisation, modification events. An event typically includes an actor, a
timestamp, and a number of specific name-value pairs. The event model has been
designed to comply with the event definition provided by the PREMIS schema (Online
Computer Library Center (OCLC), 2005). Content data-streams are associated with a
Digital Object based on a reference (typically a repository URL) or can be directly
embedded within the object, if desired. Relationships to other Digital Objects for
example of types such as “contained” or “derived from” are required for expressing
multiple manifestations and for creating composite objects. The Digital Object
abstraction provides a recursive concept that can represent compound object types that
are composed from many different underlying objects. For example, consider a Digital
Object that represents the root node of a file tree. If the Digital Object is passed to a
service, “contained” child elements could be incrementally downloaded and processed.
Another relationship is provided by the concept of fractions, which allow reference to
content parts (e.g., frames of a video, files in a compressed package). Work is ongoing
on serialising Digital Objects while making use of metadata formats such as RDF,
METS and PREMIS.
Repository Integration
Many memory institutions, such as national libraries and archives, already have
archiving systems in place. These are often custom solutions or based on commercial
systems. Replacing such environments is neither feasible nor desirable. For this reason,
the Interoperability Framework was designed to integrate with and complement
existing archive systems; it is in no way meant to replace them or even to provide
archiving functionality. However, it cannot be assumed that the Planets software has
any control over an institutional repository and/or that it can be granted permission to
automatically deposit materials there. Hence, a less intrusive approach has been
implemented. Interoperability between existing Digital Object management systems
and the Planets infrastructure has been based on a “mutual access” strategy. The basic
scenario involves the following steps: (1) Digital assets are retrieved based on the
particular public interfaces/protocols provided by a repository system. (2) The records
retrieved are converted to the Planets Digital Object model and ingested through the
Data Registry Service. After this stage, the Digital Objects are available for processing
within the Planets environment. (3) The outcomes of a preservation
experiment/process are made accessible through a Data Registry. Current
implementations are based on Apache Jackrabbit6 and the Fedora Commons7
repository software. A user may download the resulting data/metadata entities, which
can be subsequently deposited into an institutional archiving system.
6 The Apache Software Foundation: Apache Jackrabbit: http://jackrabbit.apache.org/
7 Fedora Commons: http://www.fedora-commons.org/
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Repository Access
As described earlier, it is necessary to retrieve the Digital Objects initially from a
managed repository environment in order to make data available for experiments.
Mechanisms to access a repository, the internal data model, and representation depend
very much on the particular system in place. Other variations result from the type of
data that is being archived and the organisation with custody. In the area of memory
institutions, a commonly supported standard is provided by the Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting (OAI-PMH)8. Other access mechanisms that have been integrated include
Web services (REST and SOAP-based), native APIs, and file-based exchange. As a
matter of fact, it was necessary to rely on existing and individual interfaces provided
by these systems to retrieve content and metadata. Another major obstacle for
providing seamless access amongst different repositories and collections is imposed by
a great variation in metadata usage - both syntactically and semantically. Therefore, a
major requirement for the preservation system was the development of pluggable
access components that unify the different data sets and encodings of the various data
sources (refer to Figure 3).
Figure 3. Content from different remote data sources can be referenced and accessed
through the Planets data registry. A common interface to the client application is
provided by bespoke Digital Object Managers (dm1..dmn). In order to access different
repositories, the object managers translate the requests or queries to the respective
interfaces and protocols exposed by the respective data sources.
Digital Object Managers
The Digital Object managers implement the functionality for retrieving Planets
Digital Objects from individual repositories and/or storage systems. A simplified
version of the object manager interface is shown in Figure 4. When a collection is
registered through the Data Registry Service, the individual data items are mapped to
the Digital Object model and stored within the metadata repository. The system would,
for example, map the title and description of a Dublin Core9 record directly to the
corresponding Digital Object attributes. Some repositories also embed technical
information such as checksums and algorithm within a retrieved record. Metadata that
are not interpreted can be still associated as tagged metadata chunks within a Digital
Object.
8 Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting: http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/
9 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: http://dublincore.org/
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interface DigitalObjectManager {
void store(URI, DigitalObject)
boolean isWritable(URI)
List<URI> list(URI)
DigitalObject retrieve(URI)
public List<Query> getQueryTypes()
public List<URI> list( URI, Query)
}

Figure 4. A unified interface for retrieving Digital Objects from different and
distributed data resources. The basic functionalities are query, list, and retrieve. Write
access for depositing experiment results is supported by the Planets Data Registry.
Evaluation
A set of sample repositories and online data sources were chosen for integration -
each with different characteristics and varying degrees of standards compliance. These
data sources were made available within the Planets Testbed through the use of
specific Digital Object Managers. Ingesting a digital collection has been accomplished
through a graphical data registry browser (Figure 5) and a corresponding Digital
Object Manager. This allows experimenters to dynamically retrieve remote data items
and utilise the Digital Objects as part of an experimentation workflow. Future work in
this area will deal with the inclusion of OAI-ORE resource maps (Maslov, Mikeal,
Phillips, Leggett, & Mark, 2009), adding OAI-ORE support to repository platforms in
order to enhance the structuring of the data products that are disseminated through the
Data Registry.
Figure 5. The Repository Browser implemented by the Testbed application. Users can
select from different data sources, browse collections, and select objects. Incorporated
sources include for example an repository of the Austrian National Library (ONB), the
Amazon S3 storage service, Web resources, and a collection of digitised newspapers10
of the British Library.
10 British Library: British Newspapers: http://newspapers.bl.uk
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Preservation Services
The standardisation of service interfaces for atomic preservation actions is of
crucial importance to this service-oriented approach. These definitions are provided as
annotated Java interfaces, and any service developer needs to implement only a single
interface in order to create a Planets-compatible preservation service. This means that
Planets services are easy to swap or combine, making it simpler to create software that
is capable of invoking many different preservation tools.
Service Interfaces
The Planets Interoperability Framework defines a tiered approach to the problem
of creating digital preservation services and workflows. When implementing digital
preservation services, developers initially wish to concentrate on low-level concepts
and actions. These level-one service interfaces define basic digital preservation verbs,
for example:
Characterise provides a generic interface for different characterisation tools such
as JHOVE11, the XCEL Extractor12, and the New Zealand Metadata Extractor13.
Compare: Compares different objects based on metadata, object properties, or a
normalised representation.
Identify: Provides an interface to wrap format identification tools, for example,
DROID14, or the unix file service, returning a URI format identifier.
Migrate: Provides a generic interface for format migration tools.
Modify: A component that modifies Digital Objects (e.g., enrich, corrupt, repair,
crop), but doesn't change their format.
Validate: Validates Digital Objects against file format specifications and schema
definitions.
CreateView: Renders a Digital Object, for example, by utilising an emulated
environment.
These interfaces perform actions upon single byte sequences without concerning
the developer whether the bytes represent an image from a Web page or a page from a
book. They return results and status as simple structured types. It is possible to develop
and deploy level-one services in a variety of environments using a variety of
programming languages, and tools. The interfaces are intended to be lightweight and
simple to implement and share a set of common features: the operations are atomic,
Planets service data types are used for parameters and returns, and binary data are
handled implicitly using a Planets Digital Object instance.
11 JHOVE: JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment: http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/
12 XCL – eXtensible Characterization Language: http://planetarium.hki.uni-koeln.de/public/XCL/
13 Metadata Extraction Tool: http://meta-extractor.sourceforge.net/
14 Source Forge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/droid/
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Service Discovery
In addition to a messaging interface (the Web Service Definition Language
(WSDL) document), Planets preservation services must expose a defined metadata
document that describes the functionality implemented by the service. Once a service
is registered with the preservation system, a rich service descriptor for each
preservation service endpoint is generated and automatically registered with the
Service Registry. The IF service registry provides a fine-grained service discovery
mechanism including an extensible, schema- and taxonomy-based service
categorisation system. Moreover, the registry maintains information including tool
identifier, accepted file formats, pathways, and/or default parameters. The service
registry is accessible via a graphical as well as a programmatic interface.
Service Discovery
As the workflows a user wishes to implement become more sophisticated, there is
a requirement to consider the data management aspect within a repository. Institutions
view and model their digital collections in different ways and mapping even simple
concepts to an institution's model can be time consuming. To accommodate these
institutional models, the IF supports a repository of individual templates which
implement digital preservation workflows. These higher level services operate upon
and decompose institutional data model instances and map these concepts to the simple
level-one interfaces and data types. They provide the high-level activities and the
necessary control structures required for data model manipulations, metadata mapping,
and handling the serialisation back to an institution’s digital repository.
Workflow Environment
A crucial requirement of the programming environment is to allow data curators
and archivists to assemble and deploy the preservation workflows they require, without
forcing them to understand the underlying technical details. It is therefore important to
to provide concepts that hide away the complexity of the underlying architecture. This
can be done by structuring the system into different abstraction layers and by
employing higher-level workflow representations. Here, we present an approach that
basically distinguishes between two user groups; developers who implement
workflows and experimenters who apply workflows. Our approach provides a
separation of concerns, so that not every party intending to use the preservation system
needs to understand the entire communication and data model. Figure 6 outlines the
workflow enactment process and concepts involved.
Workflow Templates
Workflow templates are pre-defined workflow fragments that solely implement
abstract process logic but do not specify concrete services, tools, or their
parameterisation. We provide an extensible set of preservation components (based on a
Java API) that can be used to implement complex workflow specifications easily. The
higher-level and trusted workflow components operate on top of the lower level
preservation Web services (the level-one services outlined in the previous section) and
encapsulate details such as messaging and metadata.
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Figure 6. Workflow Enactment: Pre-defined Workflow Templates are based on
composed high-level components and provide the required definitions for service
orchestration. Clients can choose from registered templates and parameterise them
based on XML descriptor files. The workflow instances are scheduled for execution
using the workflow execution engine.
Parameterisation
Workflow templates implement reusable patterns that are made available to
Planets users through import into a Template Repository. The Template Repository
provides service interfaces to register, browse, and retrieve workflow template
definitions. In order to schedule a workflow execution, a user submits a descriptor
document as well as a pointer to the data registry to the Workflow Execution Service.
A descriptor basically contains the identifier of a template and defines its
parameterisation, as shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7. Example workflow configuration file for the invocation of a migration
service. A workflow template that implements a simple migration process logic is
selected. The template is configured by specifying a migration service
(Mdb2SiardMigrate) a well as a target format (siard). The workflow templates
available can be browsed and inspected using the workflow repository service.
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Workflow Execution
The workflow execution engine (WEE) provides a Web service for the execution
and monitoring of workflow instances. The main purpose of the WEE is the provision
of a controlled environment for the specification and execution of preservation
processes. It implements an enactor that governs the orchestration of the various
preservation components, which encapsulate functionalities such as communication,
state management, and preservation metadata handling. The WEE performs workflow
execution asynchronously and may deliver status information to the user based on
inquiry and email notification capabilities. It currently provides a generic Web browser
client or can be accessed by end-user applications using a Web service or native
interfaces.
Workflow Control Panel
In general, the workflow execution engine is accessed by the preservation
applications through its Web service API. Additionally, we provide a generic graphical
client application for the workflow environment, called the Workflow Control Panel
(WCP). The WCP (Figure 8) provides a graphical user interface that allows one to
choose from various abstract workflow scenarios (templates). The workflow templates
are then rendered and visualised. Selected workflow templates are configured using the
GUI representation (e.g., drop-down boxes) and can be executed and monitored using
the Web application. Additionally, users can upload/generate an XML representation
of the actual workflow instance. In general, the WCP is used for testing and so called
“informal experiments”. Client applications that implement a planning methodology or
scientific experimentation process use the WEE implicitly and provide a custom user
interface representation.
Figure 8. Dynamically generated representation of a workflow template by the
workflow control panel.
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Conclusion
In this paper, we have presented a prototype environment for the execution of
digital preservation strategies based on distributed preservation services. We argue that
preservation systems in particular have strong dependencies on legacy applications and
third party services. Therefore, research on unified preservation interfaces,
standardised service profiles, and programming models is crucial to the
interoperability and reusability of current and future preservation tools and
components. Future work on the workflow environment will deal with resource
management and scalablity issues.
Acknowledgements
Work presented in this paper is partially supported by European Community
under the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme of the 6th FP for RTD -
Project IST-033789.
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