Overview

The PANIC project aims to provide a cost-effective integrated preservation framework for newmedia, interactive collections and scientific data, which supports:

• Very large, heterogeneous, distributed collections
• Multiple formats
• Changing organisational needs
• Flexibility and adaptability
• New emerging formats, software, recommendations
• Recommender services

Architecture

Key Goals

Using a variety of case studies the key objectives are to:

• Compare emulation, migration and metadata approaches to multimedia preservation;
• Determine the optimum media formats, authoring tools, metadata & preservation processes to maximize longevity, accessibility and preservation of multimedia objects;
• Develop recommendations and guidelines for multimedia content creators and collecting agencies;
• Implement metadata schemas, metadata capture tools, workflows for capturing essential metadata and automating preservation actions;
• Implement a preservation web services architecture that delivers:
  • Automatic notification services when a preservation action is required;
  • OWL-S ontologies for describing and discovering preservation web services;
  • Automatic discovery and invocation of the most appropriate preservation service(s) based on user or organisational requirements;
  • Automatic composition of composite preservation services by choreographing simple services.