Do others share your digital preservation challenges (and know about the best solutions)?

The Open Planets Foundation has been steadily collecting the practical experiences of those working to solve concrete digital preservation and digital curation challenges. This began with a structure developed during the AQuA Project, where we captured information on the OPF wiki consisting of Datasets, preservation Issues with those Datasets and Solutions to the Issues.

Next Generation Access to Emulation (OnLive, GAIKAI for DP)

Hardware emulators are software implementations of (past) computer architectures to reproduce original environments for a wide range of purposes. Most emulators and virtual machines are programmed for local access, which means that they are installed on the machine the user is working on.

Automating Disk Imaging

Imaging of complete systems can become the appropriate appraisal method for a couple of complex objects like data bases or digital art, see e.g. the work of the Bitcurator project. This could apply to cases too, where a specific original environment is of interest, as e.g. the machine of a famous author, scientist or politician.

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