Overview
Today's society is facing the Digital Dark Age: as the world becomes digital, the world's data is increasing danger of being lost. Although our ability to store digital bits is increasing, our ability to store the data over time decreases.
Long Term Digital Preservation (LTDP) attempts to address these challenges. Long Term Digital Preservation (LTDP) is a means of keeping digital information so that the same information can be used at some point in the future in spite of obsolescence of everything involved: hardware, software, processes, format, people, etc. LTDP is particularly challenging when preserving large amounts of heterogeneous data for very long periods of time of tens or even hundreds of years.
The Haifa Research Lab has extensive activity in this area
- Preservation DataStores - prototypes preservation-aware storage
- LTDPA - a tool that assesses the maturity level of an LTDP trusted repository
- CASPAR - Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval is a digital preservation effort funded by EU FP6
- Papers and publications - the Haifa team published a number of papers on the need and design of Preservation-Aware Storage, a storage layer with built-in support for long-term digital preservation based on OAIS.
Other IBM activities related to Long Term Digital Preservation
