Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2008

Natasa Milic-Frayling & Vijay RajagopalanMicrosoft Corporation

PLANETS & Document Interoperability

Preservation and Long-term access to Digital Content through migration and interoperability

Perspectives: Digital Preservation

Effective strategies for preservation of digital content are of paramount importanceThis applies to both ‘born digital’ and digitized content, across domains and scientific disciplines

Unless we use adequate technologies and best practices to ensure that the past digital content is compatible with new information environments, we will loose access to the material created in the digital era.

PRESERVATION

Estimated value of digital documents that are produced in the EU and in danger of obsolescence is in excess of $6billion per year.

Perspectives: Data Lifecycle

Scientists manage large collections of digital data within complex and multifunctional systems

Systems are designed to support the full data lifecycle:Production, ingestion, storage, curation, publishing, and consumption.

Systems evolve with usage.

There is a continuous migrating of data formats and services to ensure wide usability and interoperability

SCIENTIFIC DATA MANAGEMENT

Data Lifecycle

CONSUMPTION

STORAGE

INGESTION

PUBLISHINGDATA CREATION

CURATION

CREATION OF NEW DATA OBJECTS

Data loop, from data creation to data consumption is continuously instantiated from individual processes in the cycle

SCIENTIFIC DATA MANAGEMENT

Preservation and

Long-term

Access through

NETworked

Services

PLANETS Project

Ensure long-term access to Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage

Improve decision-making about long term preservation

Ensure long-term access to valued digital content

Control the costs through automation, scalable infrastructure

Ensure wide adoption across the user community

Establish market place for preservation services and tools

Build practical solutionsIntegrate existing expertise, designs and tools

Share and build

The British Library

National Library, Netherlands

Austrian National Library

State and University Library, Denmark

Royal Library, Denmark

National Archives, UK

Swiss Federal Archives

National Archives, Netherlands

Hatii at University of Glasgow

University of Freiburg

Technical University of Vienna

University at Cologne

Tessella Plc

IBM Netherlands

Microsoft Research, Cambridge

ARC Seibersdorf research

PLANETS Partners

PreservationPlanningServices

CharacterisationServices

PreservationAction

Services

Test Bed:evaluation and

validationservices

Interoperability Framework

Focus AreasMS Open Office XML Formats In 2006, Microsoft released specification of the Office formats.In 2008 OpenXML became an ISO standard.

IBM Universal Virtual Computer Storage of data and specifically designed programs that decode and provide a logical view of the data.

Proprietary Formats

Open Standards

Transformer Box (Wrapper)

“Binary OpenXML”TBInterface

Watch Folder Tool

Web Service

ToooXML (GUI)

Modular and extendible architecture that involves ‘transformer’ box interface between the services and the transformer tools

Document Conversion Architecture

Transformer Box (Wrapper)

“ODF OpenXML”

Transformer Box (Wrapper)

“WP OpenXML”

Transformer Box (Wrapper)

“Binary OpenXML”TBInterface

Watch Folder Tool

Web Service

ToooXML (GUI)

Document Conversion Architecture

Ensuring Open Connections

Data Portability

Enhanced Support for Standards

Open Engagement

Announcing: Microsoft Interoperability PrinciplesFebruary 21, 2008

including the .NET Framework

“The interoperability principles and actions announced today by Microsoft present significant opportunities for the vast majority of software developers and will benefit the broader IT community.”

- Thomas Vogel, Information Management, Novartis Pharma

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