LinuxConf.Au: Digital Preservation - The National Archives of Australia, Open Standards and Open Source

The overview:

• What records does the NAA preserve?
• How do digital records fit in?
• Why do we need to do 'digital preservation?'
• How might digital preservation be done?
• What has the NAA decided to do?
• The importance of open source.

The software (all GPL):

• Xena - XML Electronic Normalising for Archives
• DPR - Digital Preservation Recorder
• Quest - Query Electronic Storage

The technical detail:

• XML schema for preservation - metadata and where to put it.
• Identifying data format types programmatically.
• Normalising to open formats - open standards.
• Presenting normalised data.
• Normaliser and file namer plugin architecture.
• Integration with 3rd party preservation applications (e.g. DSpace, Fedora, Eprints)