| Popis: |
Archivematica is an open-source and non-commercial digital preservation system, that was cho-sen and installed by the National Library of Wales to explore the ingest and preservation of digital data-objects, as part of the digital preservation ambitions of the Archives and Records Council Wales. The aim of the dissertation is to comprehend the operating principles of Archivematica 1.5 and evaluate the transfer and ingest functionality for digital data-objects of Local Authorities. This dissertation applies multiple research methods to cross-validate the findings on the Archivematica ingest functionality and the according metadata and rights management. In addition to a comprehensive literature review, and the technical analysis of the Archivematica ingest, a mostly qualitative data collection captures the current situation in Welsh digital preservation institutions regarding metadata and rights management. The final research method targets the criteria-based evaluation of the Archivematica ingest according to the recommendations of the Producer-Archive Interface Methodology Standard. The results show, that Archivematica provides interfaces to enter descriptive metadata compliant to Dublin Core, and administrative metadata compliant to PREMIS. To create a submission ready data-set, the data-objects benefit from descriptive metadata input with the aid of a CSV-file. The automatic extraction and processing of descriptive metadata from a CSV-file is enabled by Archivematica 1.5, however administrative metadata cannot be handled in that manner yet. The small-scale purposive data collection through executing a mostly open-ended questionnaire revealed that copyright and license regulation are predominant. The need for a digital preservation system and capturing metadata is bridged by applying cataloguing software. The criteria based evaluation of the ingest functionality of Archivematica confirmed the good quality of the technical architecture of this digital preservation system. Archivematica’s ability to be adjusted and extended by other software for transfer and pre-ingest storage, and access is beneficial for the adaption to current needs and circumstances of the archive. |
