PRESTO4U - Research Outputs Assessments v1

Bailer W., Biscoglio I., Boch L., Borgotallo R., Chakravarthy A., Foster S., Falchi F., Gallo F., Ligios L., Laurenson P., Marchetti E., Melas P., Rendina M., Walland P.

Digital preservation  Audiovisua  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL 

The long - term preservation of digital audio - visu al media presents a range of complex technological, organisational, economic and rights - related issues, which have been the subject of intensive research over the past fifteen years at national, European and international levels. Although good solutions ar e emerging, and there is a large body of expertise at a few specialist centres, it is very difficult for the great majority of media owners to gain access to advanced audio - visual preservation technologies. This deliverable 'Research Outputs Assessment v1' will describe the research outputs identified in year 1 of Presto4U, and which have the potential to address CoP needs and requirements. This document will also describe in detail, results of the assessment exercise carried out on identified ROs. The meth odology for assessing these tools has been established as part of WP3 task T3.1 'Research Outcomes Assessment Methodology' documented in deliverable D3.1 'Specification of Assessment Criteria, Metrics, Processes, Datasets and Facilities'. The deliverable is a direct outcome of Task 3.2 'Preservation Research Technology and Assessment'. The purpose of which is to identify and assess research outputs to establish their readiness for take - up. Part of the task also involves creating an initial dataset for Pre sto4U which initially can be used by the ROs being assessed, and it is envisaged to be released as a public dataset at the end of the project in year 2. The details of the year 1 dataset are provided in this deliverable. Further, we report on technology tr acking and mapping exercise conducted during year 1 and the tools which have been developed to enable this task. We would like to note that this kind of activity has not been performed before and for this reason why the deliverable is released in two itera tions (year 1 and end of year 2). Any shortcomings of the work done in year 1 will be addressed in the next iteration. The assessment methodology will also need to be changed as more needs are gathered from the Communities of Practice during the course of year 2. This deliverable is a first attempt at formalising a methodology for assessment of research outputs in the AV preservation domains and map them to the needs from the CoPs.

Source: Project report, PRESTO4U, Deliverable D3.2, pp.1–134, 2013