E‐ARK Specifications

20 Pages·2016·1.02 MB·English

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E-ARK Specifications for
Archival Interoperability
Kuldar Aas, E-ARK technical co-ordinator
Ljubljana, 23 November 2016
Topics
• The problem
• What is E‐ARK
• E‐ARK specifications
The problem
• Continuous growth in 
data being created and 
managed
• Part of which is crucial
to be maintained for
decades or centuries
• System developers 
ignorant of archiving 
needs
• Lack of skilled staff
Interoperability?
• Multitude of national 
and institutional 
Source system SIP Creation
standards
• Technical and semantic 
interoperability in
archiving is lacking for 
Repository Repository
practical purposes
• Bespoke local 
development needed 
far too often
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History of E‐ARK
• Informal discussions about e‐arhiving
2010 – 2011
project ideas..
• Slovenian request to fund digital
29.07.2011, 05.10.2011
archiving within ICT PSP
• Discussions at EC
24.02.2012, 26.03.2012
• ICT PSP Work Programme 2013 
22.12.2012
published, incl a call for e‐Archiving
• E‐ARK proposal submitted
14.05.2013
• E‐ARK project starts!
01.02.2014
E‐ARK
Vision: All digital preservation systems 
receive, store and provide access to 
information regardless of its size, type or 
format according to a set of agreed 
principles which allow systems  to identify, 
verify and validate the information in a 
uniform way
Goal: Interoperability between data sources, 
archives and reuse environments is 
improved to a point where digital 
preservation tools can be reused across 
borders and institutions
E‐ARK: core benefits
Extended possibilities for 
collaboration in tool development
Shared development = less costs for 
each individual partner
Digital preservation is affordable for 
everyone!
Outcomes
Standardisation of available best‐practices
• Common specifications for information
packages (SIP, AIP, DIP)
• Pre‐ingest, ingest and access workflows
Open source tools
• to implement the specifications
E‐ARK 
Specifications
E‐ARK Specifications
• Guiding principles in E‐ARK Information Package 
standardisation
– Focus on the needs 
of the „normal workflow“
– Led by current imple‐
mentations across the 
world
– Careful balance 
between standardisation 
and simplicity
– Robust and scalable