Open AccessPortico: A Case Study in the Use of XML for the Long-Term Preservation of Digital Artifacts
Author(s) -
Sheila Morrissey,
John Meyer,
Sushil Bhattarai,
Sachin Kurdikar,
Jie Ling,
Matthew Stoeffler,
Umadevi Thanneeru
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
balisage series on markup technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
ISSN - 1947-2609
DOI - 10.4242/balisagevol6.morrissey01
Subject(s) - computer science , xml , variety (cybernetics) , world wide web , efficient xml interchange , syntax , semantics (computer science) , xml signature , digital preservation , xml schema editor , database , programming language , artificial intelligence
In the problem space of long-term preservation of digital objects, the disciplined use of XML affords a reasonable solution to many of the issues associated with ensuring the interpretability and renderability of at least some digital artifacts. This paper describes the experience of Portico, a digital preservation service that preserves scholarly literature in electronic form. It describes some of the challenges and practices entailed in processing and producing XML for the archive, including issues of syntax, semantics, linking, versioning, and prospective issues of scale, variety of formats, and the larger infrastructure of tools and practices required for the use of XML for the long haul.