The SCAPE project will develop scalable services for planning and execution of institutional preservation strategies on an open source platform that orchestrates semi-automated workflows for large-scale, heterogeneous collections of complex digital objects. SCAPE will enhance the state of the art of digital preservation in three ways: by developing infrastructure and tools for scalable preservation actions; by providing a framework for automated, quality-assured preservation workflows and by integrating these components with a policy-based preservation planning and watch system. These concrete project results will be validated within three large-scale Testbeds from diverse application areas.
OPF Blogs for SCAPE- Adventures in Debian packaging 23/04/2013About a year ago, work started on packaging SCAPE tools. Jpylyzer was the first SCAPE tool that was turned into a Debian package. Some time later, the OPF set up a couple of machine images at Amazon Web Services, which can be used to create packages repeatedly using a virtual machine. Even though I've used the Amazon service a couple of times myself, I […]johan
- Looking back at the second project year of SCAPE 20/03/2013The second project year of the integrated research project SCAPE has just finished. It is time to look back at the most interesting developments and significant results of this period.Last December, SCAPE successfully organised its first public training event: Keeping Control – Scalable Preservation Environments for Identification and Characterisation (suppo […]Michela Vignoli
- Interview with a SCAPEr - Catherine Jones 19/03/2013Who are you? I am Catherine Jones. I am an Information Systems Project Manager in the Scientific Computing Department at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) in the UK. STFC is one of the UK seven Research Councils and provides both funding for research in Astronomy, Particle and Nuclear Physics and Space Science and large scale scientific […]Jette Junge
- PDF Eh? - Another Hackathon Tale 15/03/2013“Characterization” can mean many things (I’m particularly fond, especially in this context, of the OED’s “creation of a fictitious character or fictitious characters”). Back in October Paul Wheatley suggested that digital preservation practitioners needed “better characterisation” and defined this as enabling them to determine the condition, content and valu […]pixelatedpete
- SCAPE Scenario & Developer's Workshop, 22-24th January 07/03/2013After a year predominantly focussed on external SCAPE events (Open Research Challenges Workshop @ iPres, the First SCAPE Training Event in Guimarães) we finally organised another project internal scenario and developer’s workshop. As always, the event provided a great opportunity for developers and SCAPE scenario holders to get together and talk face-to-face […]pmay
- Adventures in Debian packaging 23/04/2013
