DEVELOPING INFRASTRUCTURAL SOFTWARE FOR PRESERVATION:  REFLECTIONS OF LESSONS LEARNED DEVELOPING THE PLANETS  TESTBED
The Planets Testbed, a key outcome of the EC co-funded
Planets project, is a web based application that provides
a controlled environment where users can perform experiments
on a variety of preservation tools using sample data
and a standardised yet configurable experiment methodology.
Development of the Testbed required the close
participation of many geographically and strategically disparate
organisations throughout the four-year duration of
the project, and this paper aims to reflect on a number
of key lessons that were learned whilst developing software
for digital preservation experimentation. In addition
to giving an overview of the Testbed and its evolution,
this paper describes the iterative development process that
was adopted, presents a set of key challenges faced when
developing preservation software in a distributed manner,
and offers a real-world example of how lessons can be
learned from these challenges.
["Aitken, Matthew Barr, Brian", "Ross, Seamus", "Lindley, Andrew", "Barr, Matthew"]
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