SCAlable Preservation Environments (SCAPE)

SCAlable Preservation Environments (SCAPE)

grant

preservation, big data

The SCAPE project is developing services for the planning and execution of
institutional preservation strategies for large-scale, heterogeneous collections
of complex digital objects and an execution platform that targets the scalability
of preservation environments in terms of computation and storage. The SCAPE
project aims at enhancing the state of the art of digital preservation in three
ways: by developing infrastructure and tools for scalable preservation actions;
by providing a framework for automated, quality-assured preservation workflows
and by integrating these components with a policy-based preservation planning and
watch system. These concrete project results are being validated within three
large-scale Testbeds from diverse application areas: Digital Repositories from
the library community, Web Content from the web archiving community, and Research
Data Sets from the data archiving community. SCAPE-Enlarged aims at advancing
SCAPE to include new user domains and to broaden the scope with respect to the
utilized deployment models and infrastructures available to the project.
Extensions include the development of new scientific use-cases, advanced
preservation services, and installations of the SCAPE environment in high
performance computing (HPC) data centers. The proposed project responds to the
requirement for integrating the SCAPE environment with production data center
infrastructures, allowing stakeholders to perform experiments at a significantly
higher scale and to involve additional user domains from outside the library and
archive context. SCAPE-Enlarged will evaluate its results based on two concrete
application scenarios that target the preservation of data sets resulting from
scientific video analysis as well as the preservation of sensitive health data
sets from the medical domain. The proposed project will provide SCAPE services to
the users of academic data centers and external infrastructure providers. In this
context, the SCAPE-Enlarged proposal intends to extend SCAPE technology in two
ways: by developing methods for the secure preservation of protected data sets;
and by increasing the potential SCAPE target deployments to include HPC
facilities and different cloud provisioning models. The SCAPE project will also
benefit from complementary expertise provided by partners from the New Member
States with respect to infrastructure provisioning and new application domains.
Furthermore, the newly developed use cases will further demonstrate the generic
nature of the SCAPE approach and its applicability beyond the initially planned
testbed deployments.

Smrž Pavel, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (DCGM) – research leader
Klíma Ondřej, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Materna Zdeněk, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Otáhalová Sylva (DCGM)
Zemčík Pavel, prof. Dr. Ing., dr. h. c. (DCGM)