Archiving and Preserving Digital Documents Workshop

Objectives:
Provide a complete and detailed picture of the principles, the methodologies and the tools available for the development of a Digital Preservation system. The lectures will take into account the state of the art of the international research in this field, and the main results achieved by the European project CASPAR.


11 MARZO 2009
Module 1. Foundation principles and state of the art (Mariella Guercio, University of Urbino)
­Principles and methods for preservation: the authenticity principle and the preservation methods
­Present state of the international research
­Present state of the Italian legislation

12 and 13 MARZO 2009
Module 2. Knowledge representation (Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Pisa)
­The digital information system and its relationship with the traditional systems: databases, information retrieval systems, digital repositories, digital libraries, content management systems.
­Ontologies: definitions and examples from different scientific fields.
­Knowledge representation and inference: from logic to formal languages.
­Computer tools: notations, schemas, content modeling, persistence, inference support.

18 MARZO 2009
Module 3. The OAIS model (Giovanni Michetti, University of Roma La Sapienza)

19 MARZO 2009
Module 4. Formats, metadata and repositories for the preservation of digital documents.
­Formats for defining, keeping and preserving digital documents (Gianfranco Pontevolpe, CNIPA, Rome).
­Metadata for defining, keeping and preserving digital documents (Mariella Guercio, University of Urbino)
­Digital Repositories: DRAMBORA, TRAC, RAC (Cecilia Castellani, University of Urbino)

20 MARZO 2009
Module 5. The CASPAR project
­Project objectives and context (Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Pisa)
­Authenticity in CASPAR (Mariella Guercio, University of Urbino)
­CASPAR architecture and main components (Luigi Briguglio, Engineering SpA, Rome)
­Tools for managing provenance in the digital context (Carlo Meghini, ISTI-CNR, Pisa)