Received: from mail.cni.org by b.cni.org (5.65v4.0/1.1.10.5/13Aug97-0713PM) id AA01340; Tue, 23 May 2000 08:14:22 -0400 Received: from prserv.net (out2.prserv.net [32.97.166.32]) by mail.cni.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA07818 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 08:11:33 -0400 Received: from [32.102.91.3] ([166.72.223.64]) by prserv.net (out2) with ESMTP id <2000052312120722901d0al8e>; Tue, 23 May 2000 12:12:08 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: clifford@mail.cni.org Message-Id: Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 05:12:28 -0700 To: cni-announce@cni.org From: Clifford Lynch Subject: NEDLIB report on emulation test-bed Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4 The following report may be of interest to CNI-announce readers. Clifford Lynch, Director, CNI ANNOUNCEMENT The NEDLIB Report "An experiment in using Emulation to Preserve Digital Publications" by Jeff Rothenberg is now available on the NEDLIB seb-site at: URL: http://www.kb.nl/nedlib/results/emulationpreservationreport.pdf REPORT SUMMARY The report presents the results of a preliminary investigation into the feasibility of using emulation as a means of preserving digital publications in accessible, authentic, and usable form within a deposit library. The study was commissioned by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the National Library of the Netherlands, and jointly funded by the European Commission's Telematics for Libraries Programme. The report describes a prototype experimental environment for trying-out emulation-based preservation, using commercial off-the-shelf emulation tools to produce an initial proof-of-concept. Results include proposed data, metadata and procedural models to support emulation-based preservation. The analysis is presented in the context of the increasingly accepted Open Archival Information System (OAIS) as well as the NEDLIB adaptation of the OAIS, the Deposit System for Electronic Publications (DSEP). A specific, concrete proposal is presented for implementing emulation-based preservation: the various steps necessary for this preservation strategy are described and associated with the appropriate processes in the DSEP model. The results of this preliminary investigation indicate emulation-based preservation has significant potential and warrants further exploration. Recommendations for future experiments are made. CONTACTS For more information concerning the NEDLIB emulation testbed activity, please contact: Jeff Rothenberg Titia van der Werf