Title: A modular infrastructure for the management of authenticity and persistent identifiers in long-term digital preservation repositories

Authors: Luigi Briguglio; Paul K.D. Pacquing; Silvio Salza; Maria Guercio

Addresses: Research & Development Laboratory, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., Via Riccardo Morandi 32, 00148 Roma, Italy ' Research & Development Laboratory, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., Via Riccardo Morandi 32, 00148 Roma, Italy ' Dipartimento di Ingegneria informatica automatica e gestionale, Dipartimento di Storia dell'arte e dello spettacolo, Università degli studi di Roma 'La Sapienza', Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy ' Dipartimento di Ingegneria informatica automatica e gestionale, Dipartimento di Storia dell'arte e dello spettacolo, Università degli studi di Roma 'La Sapienza', Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy

Abstract: Observation and experimental data have become a crucial asset for most scientific communities, which are bound to conveniently preserve them to allow reliable assessments on their provenance and integrity, based on suitable and well-documented evidence. On the other hand, these data often go through quite complex lifecycles that include both changes of custody and transformations of their representation. Managing authenticity has, therefore, become a central issue in long-term digital preservation (LTDP). In this paper, we present a model for the management of authenticity evidence, developed within two EU-funded projects, namely APARSEN and SCDIP-ES, that has led to the implementation of a modular framework, which may be exploited both in implementing new repositories and in improving existing ones. The infrastructure we propose is based on an open-source technology and specifically meant to guarantee a large degree of scalability and full interoperability among repositories that are based on it.

Keywords: provenance; persistent identifiers; integrity; authenticity evidence; digital preservation; OAIS; PREMIS; Java; graphical interface; modular infrastructure; digital repositories; authenticity management; scalability; interoperability.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2014.069535

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2014 Vol.9 No.4, pp.281 - 298

Received: 21 Nov 2013
Accepted: 16 Jun 2014
Published online: 21 May 2015 *

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