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Archived news items from March 2010
New version of Plato released
Posted on 2nd December 2009
A new version of Planets Plato tool is available to download now.
Version 2.1 of the web-based preservation planning tool incorporates a number of new features including:
- A home screen providing a central point of entry
- A redesigned user interface for objective trees
- The option to define your policies once and use these policies in each preservation plan you create
- Capacity to support 200MB of sample objects per plan
- Integration of JHove, including a feature that supports visual evaluation of migration by comparing the original and migrated object side-by-side
- Quality-aware migration services
To learn more about the new features in Plato 2.1, please visit www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp/plato.
To ask questions about Plato, please e-mail us at: plato@ifs.tuwien.ac.at
Plato enables users to create and execute a digital preservation plan. It draws on Planets and third-party tools to identify the characteristics of digital objects, recommend the most appropriate preservation actions and compare objects before and after they have been preserved.
To comment or ask a question about Planets, please e-mail us at: info@planets-project.eu Download new version here
Version 2.1 of the web-based preservation planning tool incorporates a number of new features including:
- A home screen providing a central point of entry
- A redesigned user interface for objective trees
- The option to define your policies once and use these policies in each preservation plan you create
- Capacity to support 200MB of sample objects per plan
- Integration of JHove, including a feature that supports visual evaluation of migration by comparing the original and migrated object side-by-side
- Quality-aware migration services
To learn more about the new features in Plato 2.1, please visit www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp/plato.
To ask questions about Plato, please e-mail us at: plato@ifs.tuwien.ac.at
Plato enables users to create and execute a digital preservation plan. It draws on Planets and third-party tools to identify the characteristics of digital objects, recommend the most appropriate preservation actions and compare objects before and after they have been preserved.
To comment or ask a question about Planets, please e-mail us at: info@planets-project.eu Download new version here

