ENSURE - Enabling kNowledge Sustainability Usability and Recovery for Economic value
Ensuring long term usability for the spiraling amounts of data produced or controlled by organizations with commercial interests is quickly becoming a major problem.
Drawing on motivation from use cases in health care, finance and clinical trials, ENSURE will significantly extend the state-of-the-art in digital preservation which to-date has focused on relatively homogeneous cultural heritage data.
Long term digital preservation
Building on prior work, ENSURE will address the above mentioned issues with novel approaches and tools:
Cost and Value. Evaluate the cost and benefit of different quality solutions, enabling the selection of the most cost-effective solution.
Preservation Lifecycle Management. Build on lifecycle management approaches to manage the preservation lifecycle, ensuring regulatory compliance, allowing changes in the preservation approach to reflect environmental changes, addressing evolution of ontologies, and managing the quality of the digital objects over time.
Content-Aware Long-Term Data Protection. Ensure long-term data protection, addressing changes in personally identifiable information, new and evolving regulations, managing user identities over decades, etc.
Leveraging Wider ICT. Evaluate the costs, risks and benefits, and demonstrate how to use emerging commonly available IT to enable scalable solutions for long term digital preservation, considering in particular cloud storage and virtual application image capture.
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's
