A Holistic Approach to Digital Preservation

Archivator, presented at Archiving 2012, is a solution for secure, migration-free long-term preservation of digital data. It consists of equipment and processes needed for writing and retrieving digital data. During the development, we realized the need of a truly holistic solution for digital preservation. Subsequently, two industrial consortiums funded by EU's Eurostar program and Norwegian Research Council were set up; MiLoS and AStoR. — The outcome is a turn-key solution designed specifically for digital preservation requirements. It includes all components needed in a full work-flow; digital data-writer, data-reader, software, hardware, processing machines, storage solution and storage medium. Yet it is an open technology where users are not locked in by any vendors. All materials are tested to ensure data integrity remains intact for 500 years. National Archives of Sweden has successfully tested the Archivator workflow on various digital data objects in an OAIS [1] context.

Published

2014-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

Preservation, archiving, OAIS, Piql

DOI

10.5594/M001579

ISBN

978-1-61482-954-6