Authors:
Noa Campos-López
1
and
Oliver Wannenwetsch
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Göttingen and Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Göttingen mbH (GWDG), Germany
;
2
Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Göttingen mbH (GWDG), Germany
Keyword(s):
Digital Preservation, Model-Driven Preservation, Process Model, Digital Ecosystem, Digital Art, BPMN, RDF.
Abstract:
Understanding and reusing archived digital information after a decade of technological advancements, constant
developments and changes to software and hardware is a very complex and time consuming task. Without a
clear documentation and records of changes, research on the creation and modification of information systems
and its associated data is almost impossible. To ease these problems, the EU-funded project PERICLES
follows a model-driven preservation approach, where the digital ecosystem is modelled and updated constantly
to handle changes for generating a holistic record on information systems involvement. For realising this
approach, we present in this paper the PERICLES Process Compiler, which consumes descriptive models
of changing environments and evolving semantics to generate executable workflows that are capable of reenacting
changes in information systems and mitigate their impact. By this, our contribution narrows the gap
between the theory of model-driven preservation
and its application in real information system environments.
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