Efficient and trustworthy preservation planning.
Plato is a decision support tool which guides you through the preservation planning workflow. To do this efficiently it integrates information from external sources like control policies, content-profiles, and component registries; it can run these components to automate tool evaluation, and connects to repositories via open interfaces. During this process Plato collects all the information to enable the planner to take an informed decision, and finally generates an evidence-based preservation plan which can be executed on suitable platforms.
Plato brings you the following benefits:
- Guidance through the preservation planning process
- Trustability through controlled experiments and documentation
- Policy aware planning
- Using standardized measures
- myExperiment and Taverna integration: Share migration, quality assurance, and characterisation components with the community
- Connects to repositories using open interfaces
- Provides a plan executable on your content
- Enables on-going monitoring by creating triggers for Scout
Plato is for:
- Content holders: academic and national libraries, archives, galleries, museums
- Preservation experts
- Practitioners who want to gain familiarity with the preservation planning workflow
- Christoph Becker, Hannes Kulovits, and Andreas Rauber: Trustworthy Preservation Planning with Plato ERCIM News 80,p.24-25, January 2010.
- Kraxner, Plangg, Duretec, Becker, Faria: The SCAPE planning and watch suite: supporting the preservation lifecycle in repositories. In: iPRES 2013, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Christoph Becker, Hannes Kulovits, Mark Guttenbrunner, Stephan Strodl, Andreas Rauber, and Hans Hofman: Systematic planning for digital preservation: Evaluating potential strategies and building preservation plans International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), December 2009.
Please check out the Plato website where you can find more information on Plato in general, its documentation, and case studies.
There is also the link to the public test instance where you take a look at existing plans, or create your own preservation plans.