This is my short presentation about my research topic and possible collaboration opportunities with WSDL

1. Digital Preservation: a New
Approach from Computational
Intelligence
Jose Antonio Olvera
University of Girona
Department of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and
Automation
Campus Montilivi 17071 - GIRONA
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2. Where I come from?
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3. Short Background
• The name of the group I come from is
• We started to work on Digital Preservation from
(PReservation Organizations using Tools in AGent Environments, 2007-2010)
• Since then, we have been involved in more DP projects
– PRESERVA (2010-2013)
• Comparative approaches to the implementation of intelligent agents
in digital preservation from a perspective of the automation of social
networks
– MIDPOINT (2012-2015)
• New approaches to digital preservation with better cost
management to ensure sustainability
– DURAFILE (2013-2015)
• Innovative Digital Preservation using Social Search in Agent
Environments
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4. Short Background
The actual perspective Our perspective
Institutions
Persons and companies
Top-down
resources capacity knowledge
resources capacity knowledge
Digital Objects
Institutions
Persons and companies
Bottom-up
resources capacity knowledge
resources capacity knowledge
Digital Objects
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5. Why I decided to come here?
• Buckets (Michael L. Nelson)
– The very first evidence of object-centric
paradigm. Buckets were designed to imbue
information objects with certain responsibilities,
such as the display, dissemination, protection,
and maintenance of their contents
• At JCDL 2013 we met and we though it would
be the best place where I could do a profitable
stay
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6. What I think of Norfolk
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7. Statement of thesis
• My thesis will study what self-preservation behaviors
need the self-preserving digital objects (SPDO), based
in computation intelligence (CI), and related methods
of cost management under their own budget,
powered by a social network as an environment that
enables their behavior under the policy that
“preservation is to share”.
• In this concept, digital objects become active actors in
their own LTDP, which has a DP budget devoted to
funding the replication of the objects and other
operations such as format migration or moving through
a social network of users; in all, a controlled
environment where they will “live”.
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8. Roadmap of the thesis
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9. Research questions
• (A1) Behavior model
– Evolutionary Computation techniques that back the
preservation of SPDOs
– Swarm Intelligence techniques that back the preservation of
SPDOs
• (A2) SPDO architecture from the agents
– Social skills that determine how they interact with each other
– How they must manage their budget (devoted to funding the
replication of files and other operations such as format
migration or copying themselves through the social network of
users)
– How they will manage their copies, that are distributed in the
social network
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10. Research questions
• (A3) Social environment
– How the social network must technically be
– What are the topologies of social networks that
back better the digital objects and how to
promote these topologies
– The definition of compensation mechanisms for
users to promote user engagement
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11. Video TiM
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12. Research goals
• Work in the three confluent areas explained
before (A1, A2 and A3) separately. The work is
being done on a simulated environment where
results will be obtained, analyzed and made
partial publication of these results in
conferences and journals
• A state of the art from the articles published on
the topic
• Finally a prototype will be implemented in a real
environment based on the research that has
been done
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13. Dissertation status
de la Rosa J. L. and Olvera J.A. First
Studies on Self-Preserving Digital
Objects. CCIA 2012
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Analysis of Nature-Inspired
Algorithms for Long-Term
Digital Preservation. JCDL
Combinatorial and Multi-Unit Auctions
Applied to Digital Preservation of Self-
Preserving Objects. CCIA 2014
State of Art
Topologies of social networks that
back self-preserving digital objects
in Digital Preservation IJCAI 2013
Time Machine Design
USW??

14. Possible collaboration opportunities
• Self-preservation behaviors based on
Computational Intelligence (CI), focused on Web
archiving
– save all associated resources (images, style sheets,
etc.) to preserve look
• Improve TiM thinking on real live limitations
• How should be implemented in real life / show
this behaviors to final users in order to engage
them  Gamification
• USW??
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15. Digital Preservation: a New
Approach from Computational
Intelligence
Jose Antonio Olvera
University of Girona
Departament de Enginyeria Elèctrica, Electrònica i
Automàtica
Campus Montilivi 17071 - GIRONA
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