Vatican library: open source for long-term preservation
Submitted by Gijs Hillenius on May 22, 2015
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The combination of open source and open standards ensures long-term preservation of electronic records and prevents IT vendor lock-in, says Luciano Ammenti, head of the IT department at the Vatican Library (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana) in Vatican City.
Die Manuskripte der Vatikanischen Bibliothek sind oft Jahrhunderte alt, auf edlen Büttenpapieren oder gar Pergament geschrieben - aber eben nicht verewigt: Der Zahn der Zeit nagt an den Schätzen. Nun sollen sie mit Hilfe einer Nasa-Technologie digitalisiert werden.
The File Information Tool Set (FITS) identifies, validates, and extracts technical metadata for various file formats. It wraps several third-party open source tools, normalizes and consolidates their output, and reports any errors.
The current tools used are:
* Jhove (LGPL version 2.1 or any later version)
* Exiftool (GPL version 1 or any later version; or the artistic license)
* National Library of New Zealand Metadata Extractor (Apache Public License version 2)
* DROID (BSD version 3.0)
* FFIdent (LGPL)
o Note that the live site for ffident (http://schmidt.devlib.org/ffident/index.html) seems to have disappeared - we are now linking to Internet Archive's version of the ffident website.
* File Utility (windows) (revised BSD)
A. Pál. (2011)cite arxiv:1111.1998
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