CRiB

The CRiB is a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) designed to assist cultural heritage institutions in the implementation of migration-based preservation interventions. The CRiB system works by assessing the quality of distinct conversion applications or services to produce recommendations of optimal migration strategies. The recommendations produced by the system take into account the specific preservation requirements of each client institution.

The CRiB is currently being supported by Web services technology and is capable of carrying out the following activities:

- Recommendation of optimal migration alternatives that take into consideration the preservation requirements of the client institution;
- Convertion of digital objects to up-to-date encodings that most users will be capable of interpreting;
- Evaluation of migration's outcome by comparing the original digital object with its converted counterparts and identifying the significant properties that have not been correctly preserved;
- Generation of migration reports in appropriate forms for inclusion in the preservation metadata of migrated objects;

• Homepage: http://crib.dsi.uminho.pt