What is Plato?
Digital content is short-lived, yet may prove to have value in the future. How can we keep it alive?
Finding the right action to enable future access to digital content in a transparent way is the task of Plato.
The mission of digital preservation is to ensure continued, authentic long-term access to digital objects in a usable form for
specific user communities. This requires preservation actions to be carried out when the original environment of digital objects is unavailable.
A variety of preservation actions exist, but each shows specific peculiarities, and a variety of factors influence the decision.
The mission of preservation planning is to ensure authentic future access for a specific set of objects and designated communities
by defining the actions needed to preserve it.
The planning tool Plato is a decision support tool that implements a solid preservation planning process and integrates services for content characterisation, preservation action and automatic object comparison in a service-oriented architecture to provide maximum support for preservation planning endeavours.
What's new?
February 2011: Plato and SCAPE
| We are now working on the SCAPE project which will run until 2014. Among the key expected results of SCAPE is an automated component that brings together repository operations and policies with content, action components, measures, and automated watch to provide a traceable lifecycle of operational planning. The automated planning component will build on the planning tool Plato and will substantially enhance its capabilities in terms of automation and scalability. |
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October 2010: Plato 3.0.1
A minor service release fixing a few small issues and updating the documentation.
Click here to enter Plato.
(ports 8080 and 8443 must be open)
Feedback and browser compatibility
Did you encounter any bugs, do you have any comments? Please submit bug reports and comments using the integrated feedback link in the planning tool, or send us an email.
We read all emails!
For information regarding browser compatibility and known issues, please click here.
This software is licensed under Apache version 2.0 or later. The source code of Plato 3.0 is available on sourceforge.
Please do not hesitate to contact us at plato@ifs.tuwien.ac.at if you have any questions.
