[HN Gopher] Archivematica: Open-source digital preservation system
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Archivematica: Open-source digital preservation system
Author : sanqui
Score : 124 points
Date : 2021-10-02 09:10 UTC (13 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.archivematica.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.archivematica.org)
| beckman466 wrote:
| Does it do versioning of documents?
| blipmusic wrote:
| It seems so, unless I'm misunderstanding the documents. From an
| old, random readme for a workshop, then the official wiki:
| -
| https://github.com/mjordan/archivematicaworkshop#archivematica-
| and-aip-migration -
| https://wiki.archivematica.org/AIP_re-ingest
|
| Perhaps someone with better knowledge than I could tell whether
| this implies that each version gets its own PID (crucial for
| publications etc).
| iFire wrote:
| Is there any Open-Source digital preservation systems for 3d and
| animated 3d data such as .blend (Blender) or .gltf (GLTF2).
|
| Bonus points for non-AGPL so I can connect a proprietary system
| over the internet to it and have the archived data be free and
| libre.
| mynegation wrote:
| https://archivebox.io/ is MIT licensed. Not sure if they
| support that specific case but maybe send them a pull request
| if they do not?
| iFire wrote:
| I posted some requirements here.
| https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/668
| blipmusic wrote:
| I've seen experiments built on top of https://3dhop.net for
| viewing (if that's the issue), but have no experience myself.
| Don't know about animation, though.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Can it serve up archives as torrents automatically published to
| an RSS feed?
| markhahn wrote:
| I think that's contrary to this field's worldview. They seem
| more like librarians: more or less the end of the data
| lifecycle. (Unless it's the kind of data that gets retrieved,
| as if from a library, and used for further analysis.)
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| blipmusic wrote:
| Others out there, such as: - DataVerse:
| https://dataverse.org - Omeka: https://omeka.org/s/
| - also many internally developed archival systems
|
| To us it's mostly up to the granularity of the metadata, and
| wether metadata fields support e.g. ISO standards for validation
| (which is why it's difficult for a single metadata standard to
| rule all, unless all you need is free text descriptions). Another
| need is a way to batch ingest. > Compatible
| with hundreds of formats
|
| I'm becoming increasingly critical of file format verification as
| a gatekeeper for digital preservation, but perhaps someone can
| explain why I'm wrong. Striving towards open specifications is of
| course a must for long term preservation (cave paintings
| persevere, while digital data is fragile in so many ways), but if
| conversion incurs data loss, parallel archiving should be an
| option. Worse, we've had issues with old systems that deny
| archiving data althogether because of an automated format checker
| standing in the way (we'll use FITS [0] in the future, but that
| just uses a bunch of other type checkers under the hood and
| doesn't seem bomb proof from the little testing I've done).
| Formats such as MP4 also seem like a nightmare to validate
| (granted, lots of cameras out there ignore following
| specifications). But archiving nothing at all over a few
| proprietary formats every now and then is a horrible outcome (see
| experience above). At the very least, it must be possible to
| override automated format checking if necessary.
| [0]: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits
| mynegation wrote:
| I now use https://archivebox.io/ and now am preparing to do a
| backup of my pinboard.in to it.
| sitta wrote:
| You'll want to be sure to test FITS thoroughly for your use
| case. It really needs some love. It's using some outdated tools
| and has a number of bugs. I submitted a bunch of PRs to the
| project this summer, but maintaining FITS is currently not a
| priority at Harvard, though I was assured that its not
| abandoned.
|
| As a digital preservation aside, folks may be interested in
| OCFL[1], which is a preservation focused storage layout
| specification that had its 1.0 release last year.
|
| [1] https://ocfl.io/
| blipmusic wrote:
| Ouch, thanks for the heads up. :/ We'll be stuck with FITS
| this time around, though.
|
| Also, someone should put OCFL on the front page, while HN is
| in an archiving mood.
| pkz wrote:
| See also ESSarch: https://github.com/ESSolutions/ESSArch (used by
| the national archives of Sweden and Norway and participating in
| the EU digital preservation building block).
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