Project aims

The REMAP project has the following aims:

• To develop Records Management and Digital Preservation (RMDP) workflow(s) in order to understand how a digital repository can support these activities
• To embed digital repository interaction within working practices for RMDP purposes
• To further develop the use of a WSBPEL orchestration tool to work with external Web services, including the PRONOM Web services, to provide appropriate metadata and file information for RMDP
• To develop and test a notification layer that can interact with the orchestration tool and allow RSS syndication to individuals alerting them to RMDP tasks
• To develop and test an intermediate persistence layer to underpin the notification layer and interact with the WSBPEL orchestration tool to allow orchestrated workflows to take place over time
• To test and validate the use of the enhanced WSBPEL tool with institutional staff involved in RMDP activities

These aims will feed into and help achieve the project’s objectives:

• To raise the profile of records management and digital preservation and how it can become a part of regular working practices through interaction with a digital repository
• To better understand how WSBPEL can be used in a real world scenario to support records management and digital preservation
• To test and demonstrate how the Fedora digital repository system can be used to support records management and digital preservation within institutional practices

The REMAP project will build on the work of an earlier JISC-funded project at the University of Hull: RepoMMan. The RepoMMan project developed a tool that could be integrated into a user's workflow to allow easy interaction with an institutional repository. The repository is thereby available as part of the development process for materials as well as being a showcase for the finished product.