www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp Digital objects require appropriate measures for digital preservation to ensure that they can be accessed and used in the near and far future. While heritage institutions have been addressing the challenges posed by digital preservation needs for some time, private users and SOHOs (Small Office/Home Office) are less prepared to handle these challenges. Yet, both have increasing amounts of data that represent considerable value, be it office documents or family photographs. Backup, common practice of home users, avoids the physical loss of data, but it does not prevent the loss of the ability to render and use the data in the long term. Research and development in the area of digital preservation is driven by memory institutions and large businesses. The available tools, services and models are developed to meet the demands of these professional settings. This paper analyses the requirements and challenges of preservation solutions for private users and SOHOs. Based on the requirements and supported by available tools and services, we are designing and implementing a home archiving system to provide digital preservation solutions specifically for digital holdings in the small office and home environment. It hides the technical complexity of digital preservation challenges and provides simple and automated services based on established best practice examples. The system combines bitstream preservation and logical preservation strategies to avoid loss of data and the ability to access and use them. A first software prototype, called Hoppla, is presented in this paper.

Abstract. This paper first explores some of the reasons why collaboration is becoming increasingly important in supporting scientific data curation, digital preservation initiatives and institutional repository development. It then investigates the concepts of trust and control used in the organisation science literature and attempts to apply them to the work on trustworthy repositories being carried out by various international initiatives. 1

Quality management is one of the essential parts to become a trustworthy digital archive. The German network of expertise in Digital long-term preservation (nestor), in cooperation with the German Institute for Standards (DIN) has undertaken a small study in order to systematically analyse the relevance und usage of quality management standards for long-term preservation and to filter out the specific standardisation need for digital archives. This paper summarises the first results of the study. It gives a first overview on the differences in understanding the task “quality management ” amongst different organisations and how they carry out appropriate measures like documentation, transparency, adequacy, and measureability in order to demonstrate the trustworthiness of their digital archive.

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Digital objects have become the dominant way that we create, shape, and exchange information. They form a central part of our economy, and are becoming increasingly important for a longer period of time. The evergrowing heterogeneity and complexity of digital object formats together with rapid technological changes turn the preservation of digital information into a pressing challenge. The challenge is to keep electronic data accessible, viewable, and usable for the future, to ensure the survival of our digital artifacts when the original software or hardware to interpret them correctly becomes unavailable. A reference model for an archival system dedicated to preserving and maintaining access to digital information over the long term was published in 1999 by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS). In 2003 the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) was adopted as ISO 14721:2003. The primary goal of an OAIS is to preserve

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