Paper Info
Title
Open source software for data curation of digital assets: a case study
Abstract
Legacy file formats is an increasing concern for organisations. Therefore it is important for any company to develop sustainable strategies for data curation in order to maintain valuable digital assets. In this paper we report from a case study conducted in a company context aiming to investigate the feasibility of using Open Source approaches for curation of corporate digital assets kept in proprietary legacy file formats to open file formats. We consider different aspects of openness in a corporate strategy for maintaining digital assets. An important aspect concerns activity and company influence in an Open Source tool-chain, another concerns support for data curation of digital assets actually offered by the tool chain. We find that organisational concern over legacy file formats continues to be an issue, and that strong commercial influence on Open Source projects is no guarantee for success.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1930488.1930501
MindTrek08
Keywords
Field
DocType
open source software,file format,corporate digital asset,open source project,data curation,legacy file format,open source tool-chain,digital asset,proprietary legacy file format,valuable digital asset,case study,open source approach,technology,computer and information science,corporate strategy
File format,World Wide Web,Open format,Computer science,Openness to experience,Data curation,Strategic management,Open source software,Information and Computer Science
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.40
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jonas Gamalielsson18113.11
Björn Lundell244247.13