Publications

This document details the software requirements for the Planets Core Registry
versions 2.1. The core registry incorporates the functionality of both the
Preservation Action Tool Registry and the Preservation Characterisation Registry.
Note that the previous release of the Core Registry (V2) was also known as
Planets Core Registry V2, the Planets Technical Registry and PRONOM 7. [PDF, 801KB]

This report is the final version of the Planets guidelines for developers of digital preservation tools. The guidelines set out Planets’ requirements for integrating third-party tools into the Planets framework. Developers will find them useful in understanding the criteria, tools and services should meet to be considered for inclusion in Planets. [PDF, 118KB]

This paper describes a proposal for a logical data model based on preliminary work within the Planets project. In OAIS terms the main areas discussed are related to the introduction of a logical data model for representing the past, present and future versions of the digital object associated with the Archival Storage Package for the publications deposited by our client repositories.

The paper was presented by Eld Zierau at ECDL 2008 which was held in Aarhus, Denmark, on 14-19 September 2008 [PDF, 183KB]

This paper discusses the Planets approach to migration tool development. The approach consists of enhancing existing migration tools rather than developing tools from scratch. This pragmatic approach is based on the Planets view of the current situation for migration tools and two claims. The first claim is that the market will cover the required tools for commonly used formats. The second claim is that in the long term less tools will be required due to growing use of archiving standard formats. The Planets view on the current situation, the scope of tool development and the claims stated are, however, open for discussion and re-evaluation.

The paper was presented at the IS&T Archiving 2008 conference in Bern, Switzerland. [PDF, 205KB]

The preservation or conservation of digital art confronts us with a range of challenges, eclipsing many of the difficulties posed by more mainstream digital resources like documents and images. Preservation of art may itself be an impossible goal; instead, one might realistically aim only to create and collate sufficient documentation capable of conveying meaning and impact to a future audience, with perhaps one eye on its recreation where necessary at a later date. The Planets project is creating vocabularies and frameworks to describe the attributes that give a digital artwork its value. The latest developments are described in this report. [PDF, 374KB]