An integrated approach for smart digital preservation system based on web service

Abstract

There are massive digital resources in digital libraries and other organizations. While hardware and software used to read digital data become obsolescent soon, and a lot of information in these unreadable data is so valuable that it is urgent to preserve digital resources for long-term utilization. A variety of tools or systems can solve part of the problem, but most of them are isolated. This paper describes an integrated and flexible digital preservation system AOMS which leverages the existing tools and services. AOMS considers not only file formats and versions, but also storage media, hardware, software, OS, and so forth as digital preservation risks, so the corresponding risks may be interlaced. Consequently, AOMS also helps collection managers schedule the preservation actions effectively and efficiently. © 2008 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.