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Virtual Remote Control:
Preservation Risk Management for Web Resources
Nancy Y. McGovern, ECURE 2004

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VRC Funding

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Current Team

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Research Scope

see, "Preservation Risk Management for Web Resources: Virtual Remote Control in Cornell's Project Prism"

by Anne R. Kenney, Nancy Y. McGovern, Peter Botticelli, Richard Entlich, Carl Lagoze, and Sandra Payette in DLib Magazine, January 2002

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/kenney/01kenney.html

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Virtual...

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Remote...

  1. because VRC is intended for use by cultural heritage institutions
  2. interested in the longevity of Web resources
  3. residing on remote servers
    not owned or managed by the monitoring institution

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Control...

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Purpose

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Types of Web Resources

Two types of initiatives for monitoring and/or capture of:

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Nature of Risks

Two perspectives on Web-based risk:

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Types of Risks

Include:

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Risk Factors

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VRC Stages

  1. Identification
  2. Analysis
  3. Appraisal
  4. Strategy
  5. Detection
  6. Response

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Human — Tool Scenario

  1. Identification
    • Human: identify Web resources of interest
    • Tool: verify list, expand list
  2. Analysis
    • Tool: crawl sites, generate characterizations
    • Human: accept/revise characterizations
  3. Appraisal
    • Human: define/review attributes of value
    • Tool: support appraisal, capture results

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Human — Tool Scenario

  1. Strategy
    • Human: develop/review strategies
    • Tool: plot appraisals, compile strategies
  2. Detection
    • Human: define risk parameters
    • Tool: identify/assess risks; propose responses
  3. Response
    • Tool: propose risk response based on rules; automatic response for some risk categories
    • Human: monitor automated responses; select response based on recommended actions

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Contextual Layers

[diagram of the external and internal environments of a website]

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Server-level Monitoring

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Server-level Monitoring

[server-level monitoring line chart]

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VRC Toolkit

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VRC Toolkit

Development steps:

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Web Crawling

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Tool Categories

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Tool Inventory

[Tool Inventory screen]

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[Virtual Remote Control: Test Site - text]

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[Virtual Remote Control: Test Site - more text]

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OAIS Issues

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Management Issues

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Mandate

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Current Activities

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Future Projects

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For Discussion

What would the VRC approach have to address to be of interest, value, and/or potential impact for archivists and records managers?

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