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The project will develop an architecture and toolkit for (partially) automating preservation and ingest workflows in digital repositories, based on a set of atomic web services, each encapsulating a unit of preservation functionality, combined with web-based forms when human input is required. A workflow orchestration tool will be used to combine these services and user input functions, creating workflows that minimise the need for human intervention.

The main objectives are:

* to develop a production quality toolkit, based on this flexible and extensible architecture, that will allow repository managers to construct preservation workflows.
* to supplement this work with more speculative research, investigating the use of semantic annotation of web services to allow preservation services to be dynamically discovered and executed at run-time

For further information on the project please contact:

Mark Hedges; Tel: 020 7848 1970 Email: --firstname.lastname@ahds.ac.uk--.

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* Project Proposal PDF document, 106KB
* Project Plan PDF document, 401 KB

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