Microsoft Research
Faculty Summit 2008
PLANETS & Document Interoperability
Preservation and Long-term access to Digital Content
through migration and interoperability
Natasa Milic-Frayling & Vijay Rajagopalan
Microsoft Corporation
PRESERVATION
Effective strategies for preservation of digital content are of
paramount importance
This applies to both ‘born digital’ and digitized content, across
domains and scientific disciplines
Unless we use adequate technologies and best practices to ensure
that the past digital content is compatible with new information
environments, we will loose access to the material created in the
digital era.
Estimated value of digital documents that are produced in the EU and
in danger of obsolescence is in excess of $6billion per year.
SCIENTIFIC DATA
MANAGEMENT
Scientists manage large collections of digital data within complex
and multifunctional systems
Systems are designed to support the full data lifecycle:
Production, ingestion, storage, curation, publishing, and
consumption.
Systems evolve with usage.
There is a continuous migrating of data formats and services to
ensure wide usability and interoperability
SCIENTIFIC DATA
MANAGEMENT
STORAGE
INGESTION
CURATION
CREATION OF NEW DATA OBJECTS
DATA CREATION
PUBLISHING
CONSUMPTION
Data loop, from data creation to data consumption is continuously instantiated from individual
processes in the cycle
Ensure long-term access to Europe’s
cultural and scientific heritage
Improve decision-making about long term preservation
Ensure long-term access to valued digital content
Control the costs through automation, scalable
infrastructure
Ensure wide adoption across the user community
Establish market place for preservation services and
tools
Build practical solutions
Integrate existing expertise, designs and tools
Share and build
Preservation and
Long-term
Access through
NETworked
Services
The British Library
National Library, Netherlands
Austrian National Library
State and University Library, Denmark
Royal Library, Denmark
National Archives, UK
Swiss Federal Archives
National Archives, Netherlands
Hatii at University of Glasgow
University of Freiburg
Technical University of Vienna
University at Cologne
Tessella Plc
IBM Netherlands
Microsoft Research, Cambridge
ARC Seibersdorf research
MS Open Office XML
Formats
In 2006, Microsoft released
Preservation
Planning
Services
Preservation
Action
Services
Test Bed:
evaluation and
validation
services
Characterisation
Services
Interoperability Framework
specification of the Office formats.
In 2008 OpenXML became an ISO
standard.
Proprietary Formats
Open Standards
IBM Universal Virtual
Computer
Storage of data and specifically
designed programs that decode and
provide a logical view of the data.
Modular and extendible architecture
that involves ‘transformer’ box interface
between the services and the
transformer tools
ToooXML (GUI)
Web Service
TB
Interface
“Binary  OpenXML”
Transformer Box (Wrapper)
Watch Folder Tool
“ODF  OpenXML”
ToooXML (GUI)
Transformer Box (Wrapper)
Web Service
TB
Interface
“Binary  OpenXML”
Transformer Box (Wrapper)
Watch Folder Tool
“WP  OpenXML”
Transformer Box (Wrapper)
Ensuring Open Connections
including the .NET Framework
Data Portability
Enhanced Support for Standards
Open Engagement
“The interoperability principles and actions announced today by Microsoft present
significant opportunities for the vast majority of software developers and will benefit
the broader IT community.”
- Thomas Vogel, Information Management, Novartis Pharma
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