E-ARK - European Archival Records and Knowledge Preservation

This report identifies and specifies the use cases which will be piloted in E-ARK

The findings presented in this report are intended to provide a greater understanding of the legal
framework as it impacts on cross-border co-operation. This report will be used to inform the other Work Packages within E-ARK as it is essential to ensure the project aligns with EU Directives as implemented by Member States.

This is version 2 of our report, updated in 2017.

At the recommendation of our EC Reviewers, we have published a summary "Advice to Archives" Guide which summarises the issues identified in our fuller D2.2 Report on the implications for archives of the requirements of Directive 95/46/EC, which have been implemented by Member States in a variety of legislative instruments since the adoption of the Directive in 1995

While this document can only provide guidance, it does contain checklists of things which we recommend that archives should Ensure, Monitor and Consider.

This report details the technical and other requirements for each of the pilot sites which will participate in the E-ARK Pilot Programme.

This is Part 1 of Deliverable 2.4 (Pilot Documentation). It is a .ZIP file which contains documents relating to the 5 main pilots undertaken within E-ARK. In addition to an overall description, you will find a number of  .PDF's detailing each individual pilot, and also matching Read-Only Excel Spreadsheets which contain technical details of the pilots. This is version 3 of the deliverable and was uploaded on 26 January 2017.

It should be downloaded in conjunction with Part 2

This is Part 2 of Deliverable 2.4 (Pilot Documentation). It is a .ZIP file which contains documents relating to the 5 main pilots undertaken within E-ARK. In addition to an overall description, you will find a number of  .PDF's detailing each individual pilot, and also matching Read-Only Excel Spreadsheets which contain technical details of the pilots. This is version 3 of the deliverable and was uploaded on 26 January 2017.

It should be downloaded in conjunction with Part 1

This report is the final summary of the activities and outcomes of the Pilots which were conducted by the E-ARK Project.

It describes the achievements and results of the pilot activities over the entire three-year period with emphasis on the final year of the project. The report lists the resources used and provides an evaluation of progress and final result against the project objectives and milestones and documents the remaining problems. It summarises the recommendations and lessons learned from each pilot and provides input for the overall final report of the project.

This report will be used as an input to the E-ARK SIP specification, records export requirements, transfer and ingest recommendations. This report provides an overview of the current situation of the digital archiving best practices. Special attention is paid to archival ingest workflows, submission information package formats used for transfer and ingest of digital objects and their metadata.

A Submission Information Package (SIP) is defined in the OAIS standard as an Information Package that is delivered by the Producer to the OAIS for use in the construction or update of one or more AIPs and/or the associated Descriptive Information. Many different SIP formats are used all over the world and unfortunately there is currently no central format for a SIP which would cover all individual national and business needs identified in the E-ARK Report on Available Best Practices.

This deliverable describes a draft SIP specification for the E-ARK project and gives an overview of the structure and main metadata elements for E-ARK SIP and provide initial input for the technical implementations of E-ARK ingest tools.

An update of deliverable D3.2 - this provides a general structure for Submission Information Packages.

Please read this in conjunction with the D3.3 SMURF deliverable which describes the Semantically Marked Up Record Format.

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This is the definition of the E-ARK SMURF (semantically marked up record format) Profile which should be read in conjunction with E-ARK Deliverable D3.3

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This document is a document which describes a software deliverable which delivers a number of E-ARK tools:
• ERMS Export Module (a tool for exporting records and their metadata from ERMS in a controlled
manner);
• Database Preservation Toolkit (a tool for exporting relational databases as SIARD 2.0 or other
formats);
• ESSArch Tools for Producer (a tool for SIP creation);
• ESSArch Tools for Archive (a tool for SIP ingestion);1
• RODA-in (a tool for SIP creation);
• Universal Archiving Module (a tool for SIP creation).

In addition, an overview of Pre-Ingest and Ingest processes is provided by this document which will help the reader to understand the tools and their use.

Within the overall strategy of E-ARK the AIPs have a small but highly significant role. The structure of the E-ARK AIP must be derived not from individual implementations of existing technology providers, but from the major abstract concepts currently existing to ensure that conversions between SIP, AIP & DIP are developed only once.

This report examines and describes these concepts and derives recommendations from them, which will be used as a guide line in the next step, the design of the pan-European AIP format and the conversion tools supporting it.

This document builds on the overview of existing solutions for AIPs given in D4.1. It describes a blueprint for the structure of an AIP format following from the state of the art described there.

This deliverable D4.3 “E-ARK AIP pilot specification” presents the E-ARK AIP format specification as it will be used by the pilots (implementations in pilot organizations). The deliverable is a follow-up version of E-ARK deliverable D4.2 “E-ARK AIP draft specification”.

This is the Final version of SIP-AIP conversion component. It is a .ZIP file containing 2 documents:

Part A is the AIP Specification

Part B is SIP-AIP Conversion Component.

This report is a GAP analysis between current access services and user requirements for Access. It describes the landscape of access services today and highlights the results of the examinations of user needs for access services. The study targets the producers of the access services (service providers and archives), the clients of these services (archives) and the end--‐users of them (third--‐party users, the archives and the content providers themselves).{jcomments off}

The primary aim of this deliverable is to present the first version of the E-ARK Dissemination Information Package (DIP) format. In order to do so the deliverable describes the workflows and use cases of archival access services and ultimately uses these to present a set of requirements which should be followed when designing a DIP format.

This is the final version of the specification of the E-ARK Dissemination Information Package (DIP) formats. The secondary aim is to describe the access scenarios in which these DIP formats
will be rendered for use. This document is a revision of the deliverable D5.3 E-ARK DIP Pilot Specification, which was published in May 2016.

Annexed to this document are two papers:

A Proposed E-ARK Standard for Vendor-Independent Archiving of Data Warehouses

and

A Proposed E-ARK Standard for Relational Database Metadata Table Structure

The aim of this deliverable is to describe the “Search, Access and Display Interfaces” that have been developed in the Access component of the E-ARK project.

The deliverable is mainly a software deliverable and therefore this document provides underpinning descriptions of and links to the software itself.