Gestalt of a long-term archive management system on semantic grid

Abstract

Long-term preservation (LTP) is an appealing new research area. Its goal is to make the sustainability of archives lasting for a foreseeable enough time. The efforts are primarily hampered by challenges such as missing of stands, formal methodology and workflow management during archiving process. Further deficits are failing to keep interoperation among archives, information loss without any sense of information decay etc. Objective of this research is to develop the LTP of various kinds of documents, independent from the evolution of time and changes in techniques and digital environments. Basic requirements come from integration of storage management and information management, securing preservation of data, metadata, indexes, etc. This paper illustrates the evolutionary development of the LTP for Governmental Archive Management and Knowledge Management with respect to aforementioned requirements. Effective search to resources and efficient storage/access on data, consistent user-interface, recovery drawing on co-location back-up, dynamic regulation on authentication and security management are tasks followed. Then, a pilot Semantic Data Grid and its annotation and service matching mechanisms are described, where the ontologism play a crucial role. Last but not least, experiences learned and the future works with respect to the semantic grid for LTP will be summarized. © 2013 IEEE.