A research of motion picture media usually presents difficulties because the dynamic medium is not so easy to grasp. Existing software solutions facilitate the work, but are often limited to the medium of film. At our institute we are developing a virtual research environment called SALSAH (System for annotation and linkage of sources in arts and humanities). The question was, when we have the digitized data, what will we do with them? We will not just archive, we will use them. SALSAH is a totally web based platform for researcher in a private and for public users in a restricted environment. The tools are search, annotate, mark regions on images and link all objects with other objects. And now we are creating a new module for working with motion picture and audio files.

In this presentation we will discuss the motivation for a digital archival master format for motion pictures as well as some technical key questions along the road towards a possible standardization. Due to the large volume of uncompressed high-resolution motion picture data, we will discuss the quality, advantages and drawbacks of data compression algorithms. In addition we focus on issues like the ability of data formats to encapsulate preservation information metadata and the long-term stability of format definitions.In the analog era of motion pictures normally an analog "projection copy" was handed over for archival purposes. Until recently, the Digital Cinema Package (DCP)[1] has been the digital copy used for projection. With the disappearance of analog film copies and the prevalence of countless digital media dissemination platforms we discuss whether the dissemination format, formerly known as Digital Cinema Package DCP, is appropriate to be used as archival information package (AIP). Further on we will discuss which features are needed to define an ideal data-format like "DCP/A" (in analogy to PDF/A).

Information technology provides the elementary basis for efficient business processes in administration, business and science. Especially important is the preservation of the integrity and authenticity of digital records to maintain the conclusiveness of the documents supporting legal claims of the issuer or third parties and the proof of their correctness in electronic legal and business transactions. To achieve these aims it is required to preserve the evidence of the electronic records. Against this background organizational guidelines and technical mechanisms have been developed and standardized which enable public administrations and private enterprises to preserve the evidence and trustworthiness of their business records over a long period of time. The present contribution provides an overview of the existing and forthcoming standards in this area.

This article is a short status report concerning the new Electronic Archive of the Saxon State Archives. It contains a description of the implemented OAIS functional entities "ingest", "preservation planning", "data management" and "access". The article also mentions the importance of the organizational structure of an electronic archive.

Early 2013 DEN and PACKED launched a score model for the preservation of digital collections (scoremodel.org). The model is intended as a self-evaluation tool: organizations that host and/or manage digital collections can use the Score model to identify the potential threats to the long-term viability and accessibility of digital collections. In contrast to OAIS-oriented tools such as ISO 16363, the Score model is aimed towards smaller institutions, who have limited technical and organizational competencies. The criteria in this checklist are grouped around seven sections, in each of which a limited number of criteria are given, using as little technical jargon as possible. The resulting report can be used as a planning tool to systematically tackle the threats to digital preservation. By introducing risk levels, organizations are triggered to prioritize actions and to focus on measurements that are most important to take.

Digitization allows humanities scholars to access their primary sources with the help of computers. As a consequence, research data is also created within digital infrastructure by using databases, annotation tools or virtual research environments. This novel way of using the computer in the humanities exceeds the conventional use of word processors. The dynamic nature of this data poses new problems beyond the difficulty of storing it for a long-term period (archiving): data should also be permanently accessible and usable to base future research upon.Because of rapid changes in hardware and software, migration of research data to a working and long-term supported infrastructure is indispensable. SALSAH is developed as such an infrastructure. It is a web-based generic research platform for the humanities allowing for the collaborative annotation and linking of digital sources.

This paper puts the subject of Digital Rights and Access Management (DRM) into the context of digital long-term preservation. It examines the risks and challenges for ensuring long-term accessibility and usability of DRM-protected objects on the one hand and for the safeguarding of associated rights on the other hand. The research leading to the results presented in this paper has mainly been undertaken within the EU project APARSEN [1].

Data Retention solutions are increasingly important as the world becomes more digital. These solutions help museums, national libraries, governments, educational institutions, and corporations world-wide capture and manage institutional assets. Data Retention provides a means of organizing institutional data while providing greater levels of access and controls.Today's Data Retention solutions must be extensible to meet the evolving business needs of Big Data and Cloud Computing. While Hierarchical Storage Solutions and tiered storage provide the most reliable and cost effective solution, access and performance requirements are also important design factors. If architected incorrectly, data searching and retrieval can be time consuming and costly. Traditional tape-only archival methods simply do not meet the access requirements of many of today's repositories and long-term archives. Likewise, storing all the data on disk requires greater administration and is more costly. The proposed Data Retention solution provides a proven solution with a balance between disk, tape, and cloud storage to support long term archiving of structured and unstructured data.

This paper outlines the crisis facing Archives in an age when the material they traditionally acquire is mostly available only in digital form. It discusses how the first stage (writing on computers instead of paper) was exacerbated by the 2nd stage (messages and files hosted on social networks and external services in the Cloud). Placing this in the context of previous studies advocating archivist intervention within the workflow of the creator, it discusses strategies for nudging creators to alter practices so that their works will be more preservable. The presentation will be couched within a case study of efforts to archive user-generated media related to the "Occupy" Movement.

Managing the costs and the workloads in digital preservation requires automation and supportive tools. Micro-services is a well-tested and widely adapted architecture, proven in archive systems [1] and operating systems like Linux and UNIX. The automation level can be increased by combining the services into workflows and making the processing distributed. Resource consuming tasks such as ingest, migration and format conversion can be streamlined with this kind of approach.This paper is about the development of a workflow engine prototype for micro-services based distributed processes in digital archives. The prototype is demonstrated with a simple use case of digital content ingest workflow. The design goal was to support work done in the digital archive developments and to provide a simple and extendable tool for processing the digital content.