MultivalentSustaining Heritage Access through Archiving (SHAMAN)

Project description

The mandate of the SHAMAN project was to develop the conceptual and technical basis for the new generation of linked long-term preservation systems.

The first step was to analyse existing systems, institutional approaches, technologies and archiving processes as the basic requirement for the development of an internationally linked preservation infrastructure. Components, services, interfaces and specifications were then defined in an open, expandable framework concept while taking current long-term preservation standards into account. The use of GRID technologies facilitated the development of a distributed archiving infrastructure with which more complex, resource-intensive long-term preservation tasks could be handled. Prototypes of the concepts, technologies and services developed in SHAMAN were evaluated in test environments and real-life scenarios.

The German National Library supervised the development of a software prototype for archiving and providing access to book-like publications.

Project framework

Funding

European Commission, Seventh Framework Programme

Coordination

Work package “Document creation, archiving, access and subsequent use in the context of memory organisations for scientific and official collections”

Duration

2008 to 2011

Contact

Tobias Steinke
t.steinke@dnb.de