Digital Preservation research performed at SBA aims at creating conditions under which SMEs are enabled to keep their digital content accessible in the future. This means developing solutions and providing education for institutions with limited know-how and awareness of digital preservation. This requires hiding the complexity of digital preservation solutions based on established best practice examples and providing simple and fully automated preservation services. It also requires research on the specific aspects of document security pertaining to long-term digital preservation. Furthermore, audit services for SME repositories allow institutions to validate the trusted status of their repositories.
Moreover, digital preservation of sensitive documents such as health records pose a major problem for “typical” researchers in digital preservation because archival standards such as PDF-A explicitly prohibit ERDM mechanisms or other privacy-preserving techniques since they make it harder to guarantee accessibility in the long term.
The research in this field is based on prior work of colleagues from Vienna University of Technology, who join the team at SBA for this work. Detailed information on previous work can be found here.
Contact Person: Prof. Andreas Rauber