Slides. Tutorial: Long Term Preservation of digital assets: basics concepts and practices

Topic: Preserving digital records trustworthy over the long term: concepts and principles. Two of the most challenging issues presented by digital technology to the records, archives and legal professions, and to researchers, businesses, government, and the public, are the identification of records among all the digital objects produced by complex digital systems and the determination of their authenticity. In this session, you will learn the concept of record in the digital environment and the various types of static and dynamic records. As a group, we will explore the concepts of reliability, accuracy, authenticity, and authentication in relation to those records and the various ways of ensuring digital records trustworthiness through times.
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Topic: The presentation will explain the importance of creating and maintaining preservation metadata to support digital preservation strategies. It will discuss the ISO Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) information model and provide a brief introduction to some preservation metadata specifications, e.g., the VERS model.
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Topic: Prof. Tibbo will describe the origins, issues, and next steps in designing and implementing an  ISO international standard for auditing and certifying Trusted Digital Repositories. She will describe the process of working from other guidelines and tools including the Trusted Repository Audit and Certification Checklist (TRAC), DRAMBORA, and nestor, and discuss implications for a wide variety of repositories.
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Topic: Authenticity, integrity, certification, uniqueness and accessibility of digital contents on Internet. Persistent Identifiers for digital resources: a way to create trustability about intangible digital objects. The Italian national register and the jNBN software developed with the CNR.
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Topic: Experience at the Library of Congress about digital preservation related issues and challenges.
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Topic: Magazzini digitali (Digital stacks) project and first experience in Italy about legal deposit of digital content. First results in setting up a national infrastructure based on a long term framework. The basic principles underlying this framework will be presented and discussed.
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Topic: DPE project: risk management strategies for trustable digital repositories. Criteria and approaches to audit and verify performances, trustability and risk identification of your digital repository. The DRAMBORA tool: concepts and demonstration.
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Topic: CASPAR Project: An OAIS-based solution to the preservation of digital information. General architecture and analysis of the CASPAR approach to authenticity.
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Topic: PLANETS project tools: The Planets Interoperability Framework, the Testbed, Plato, and XCL related tools for preservation planning in cultural heritage institutions.
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