A workflow service mediator for automated information processing and scheduling delivery to an archive

Abstract

This paper describes our experience in building a service mediator to address real-life digital preservation problems and an overview of the project’s progress to date. This article introduces the motivation for this work, describes the extensible technical architecture and places its approach into the context of the long term archive. The proposed framework is composed of configurations and control panels based on Restful WEB technologies, a data-analysis engine based on stream processing paradigms, and an asynchronous message delivery service which provides definition task types and effort driven scheduling. The framework has been implemented as a pilot application in Afragola, a municipality in Napoli (Italy).