Digital stacks: Turning a current prototype into an operational service

Abstract

The presentation outlines the Digital Stacks project, whose aim is to set up a prototype of a long term digital preservation system for electronic documents published in Italy and made public via digital communication network, according to the legal deposit law. In the first part the technical architecture and the metadata management problems are outlined; the second part concerns the legal and agreements framework of the project, the organizational model and the service model. Also the sustainability issue is briefly addressed. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.