CA "The Digital Preservation Testbed is researching three different approaches to long-term digital preservation: migration, emulation and XML. Not only will the effectiveness of each approach be evaluated, but also their limits, costs and application potential. Experiments are taking place on text documents, spreadsheets, emails and databases of different size, complexity and nature."
Conclusions
RQ "New experiments expected in 2002 are the migration of spreadsheets, conversion of spreadsheets and databases into XML and a proof of concept with the UVC for text documents and spreadsheets. ... Eventually at the end of 2003 the Testbed project will provide: advice on how to deal with current digital records; recommendations for an appropriate preservation strategy or a combination ofstrategies; functional requirements for a preservation function; cost models of the various preservation strategies; a decision model for preservation strategy; recommendations concerning guidelines and regulations."
SOW
DC "The Digital Preservation Testbed is part of the non-profit organisation ICTU. ICTU isthe Dutch organisation for ICT and government. ICTU's goal is to contribute to the structural development of e-government. This will result in improving the work processes of government organisations, their service to the community and interaction with the citizens. ... In case of the Digital Preservation Testbed the principals are the Ministry of the Interior, Jan Lintsen and the Dutch National Archives, Maarten van Boven. Together with Public Key Infrastructure, Digital Longevity is the fundament of the ELO-house."
