Open Source for Policy, Costs and Sustainability

摘要

This paper gives the reader a brief presentation of a decade-long experience of MUAS developing services and applications for digital archiving. Based on this experience it is shortly explained why Open Source was not the option a decade ago and why it will be the future of digital archiving. The results of the recent survey made in project OSA (Open Source Archive are also explained. It covers topics like which are the selected tools and environments that will be used in the project when building IT-systems for archiving.