The Digital Preservation Challenge

The Digital Preservation Challenge• Producers of Digital Content today use technologies (media, software

and hardware) with an increasing amount of dependencies• Preserving Digital Content is about understanding these

dependencies and take action to assure or repair future access and rendering

• There are no products and services in the market that fulfill fundamental requirements of memory institutes for assuring long term access to digital content

• Memory institutes need to access to skilled staff and experts with deep understanding of a wide range of technologies and an ability to act on issues caused by new publishing technologies. Respond, mitigate issues and take informed decisions about introduction of new technology challenges

ControlRisk managementTrust & CertificationInstitutional Action

MaintainRe-purposeRe-useRespond

Digital Preservation Tools

Lower the technical barrier with preservation action services from the cloud?

• Making objects digital curator ready• Legacy Software Configurations as a Service• Emulation as a Service

https://demo.bw-fla.uni-freiburg.deTo login

Username: bwflaPassword: demo

WEBINAR 26th of June

Emulation as a Service, a prototype by University of Freiburg

Main Page

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Base Images: Start with Empty OS

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Choose Emulator and OS

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Inject File to Emulated Environment

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Start Emulator

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Preparing Environment

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Interact with Legacy Environment

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Access Example: Transmediale CD-ROM Art

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Choose Artifact to be Rendered

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Starting Rendering Environment

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CD-ROM Accessible in Emulated Environment

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