Description
Archival and Preservation services provide minimal support for the management and verification of digital resources that will be preserved in a system. This is distinct from conservation and preservation activities on physical objects.
We think this will eventually be provided by external services, but for now we need to at least model such things as hash-value fingerprinting of digital resources to verify integrity. I (Patrick) plan to talk to MVP folks at UCB about this.
Assumptions
- This will be minimal, and more of a placeholder than anything. It may include some minimal services to support little places that want some safety and cannot afford proper procedures.
Key Concepts
- Digital fingerprint, probably via some secure and reasonable to compute hash mechanism.
- Digital Provenance, to document how digital artifacts and derivatives were produced.
Dependencies
- Media services relate to this.
Background Documentation
- Media Vault Program at U.C. Berkeley
- There must be some other good references on this stuff - I've just forgotten them.