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SCAPE Document Conversion Service Sustaining the V alue of Digital through Format T ransformation Cloud Services

But… but its properties must be understood in order to use it effectively. It is dependent on a sophisticated infrastructure and ability to compute. How to ensure that the today’s digital content can be used in the future? Document formats, software and hardware are becoming obsolete faster than we can ensure the forward compatibility of the content.

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Ensure long- term access to Europe’s • cultural and scientific heritage − Improve decision-making about long term preservation Preservation and − Ensure long-term access to valued digital content Long-term − Control the costs through automation, scalable infrastructure Access through − Ensure wide adoption across the user community NETworked − Establish market place for preservation services and tools Services Build practical solutions • − Integrate existing expertise, designs and tools − Share and build

The British Library National Library, Netherlands Austrian National Library State and University Library, Denmark Royal Library, Denmark National Archives, UK Swiss Federal Archives National Archives, Netherlands Hatii at University of Glasgow University of Freiburg Technical University of Vienna University at Cologne Tessella Plc IBM Netherlands Microsoft Research, Cambridge ARC Seibersdorf research

Source formats Target formats WordPerfect 5 OpenXML • • WordPerfect 6 ODF • • DOS Word UOF • • Word 2, 6, 95 HTML • • Word 97-2003 • XCDL (format defined • in PLANETS) RTF • ODF • OpenXML •

SCAPE • Develop scalable services for planning and execution of preservation strategies • Open source platform for semi-automated workflows for large-scale, heterogeneous collections of complex digital objects.

AIT Austrian Institute of Österreichische Technology GmbH Nationalbibliothek The British Library Open Planets Foundation Internet Memory Statsbiblioteket Foundation Science and Technologies Ex Libris Ltd. Facilities Council Fachinformationszentrum Technische Universität Karlsruhe, Gesellschaft für Berlin Wissenschaftlich- Technische Universität Technische Information Wien GmbH The University of Koninklijke Bibliotheek Manchester KEEP SOLUTIONS LDA Universite Pierre et Marie Microsoft Research Curie – Paris 6

Authentication Landing page  Portal user/visitor  External links  Login  Quality Assurance Ingest Conversion (Comparison) Select documents for conversion  Ingest documents Select document(s) for   Format identification  Individual comparison o Select converters  documents Select comparison operator  Manual converter selection o Collections View visual representation of  o Automatic converter selection o Manage collection comparison  Start Conversion  Reporting and analysis Analyse ingest data  Analyse conversion data  Analyse comparison data  Generate report/log  Select report/log for viewing 

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Extendible functionality Extendible data store Scalable computation Virtualization Common platform for creating services Support for client applications on diverse computing platforms