Following are the winning lead institutions, their partner institutions and the subject area of the project:
Institutions: University of California San Diego, Scripps Institute of Oceanography and San Diego Supercomputer Center; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Title: Multi-Institution Testbed for Scalable Digital Archiving. Summary: These two institutions will develop a multi-terabyte digital repository to preserve data from more than 1,600 oceanographic research projects. The collaborating institutions will test processes for automatic archival ingest (acquisition), metadata extraction, validation and access control, and will also explore methods for management of rights-protected data.
Institution: University of Maryland. Title: Robust Technologies for Automated Ingestion and Long-Term Preservation of Digital Information. Summary: This project will explore automated ingest and verification for distributed digital collections. It will also develop and test a preservation architecture that can “evolve gracefully” as technology changes and that is interoperable with different computer platforms.
Institution: Drexel University. Title: Digital Engineering Archives. Summary: This project will work with decades of three-dimensional Computer Assisted Design (CAD) engineering design and production data that currently have very limited preservation options. Researchers will use international standards to convert complex design data into more readily preservable content and will use the results to educate the engineering community about three-dimensional data preservation options.
Institution: University of California San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center. Title: Digital Preservation Lifecycle Management: Building a Demonstration Prototype for the Preservation of Large Scale Multimedia Collections. Summary: The project will demonstrate a preservation life cycle management process for video content. Researchers will develop and document a practical preservation process for mixed collection of both legacy and “born digital” video material.
Institution: University of Arizona. Title: Investigating Data Provenance in the Context of New Product Design and Development. Summary: This undertaking will investigate ways to automate metadata capture through an innovative partnership with Raytheon, a commercial defense and aerospace systems supplier. Methods to develop "self aware/self describing" production and design digital data will be explored.
Institution: University of Michigan. Title: Incentives for Data Producers to Create Archive-Ready Data Sets. Summary: The project will examine incentives for data producers to deposit “archive-ready” data sets. Focus will be on collaboration between producers and archives, including identification of a process for archives to adjust their deposit requirements to better suit producer needs.
Institution: Old Dominion University. Title: Shared Infrastructure Preservation Models. Summary: This project will evaluate existing shared Internet infrastructure elements (such as Simple Mail Transfer Protocol or SMTP) to determine if they are suitable for digital preservation purposes. Researchers will explore options to reduce digital preservation costs through use of cheap and widely deployed protocols.
Institution: University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Title: Planning a Globally Accessible Archive of MODIS Data. Summary: The intent of this project is to bring together leaders of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) archive community with computer science researchers to discuss new distributed approaches to managing MODIS satellite data, which currently has a volume of about two petabytes.
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Title: Preserving Video Objects and Context: A Demonstration Project. Summary: Development of rich descriptive terms and a process for applying them to digital objects is the focus of this study. Attention will also be given to demonstrating a cost-benefit methodology.
Institution: Johns Hopkins University. Title: Securely Managing the Lifetime of Versions in Digital Archives. Summary: This project will study technologies for secure deletion of information to protect personal privacy and provide a mechanism to ensure that no unwanted data is retained along with preserved data.
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