Conference proceeding
A framework for preservable geometry-centric artifacts
2009 SIAM/ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling, pp 67-78
05 Oct 2009
Abstract
Digital preservation is the mitigation of the deleterious effects of technology obsolescence, media degradation, and fading human memory. For engineering, design, manufacturing, and physics-based simulation data this requires formats that are semantically accessible for 30-to-50 year lifespans. One of the fundamental challenges is the development of digital geometry-centric engineering representations that are self describing and assured to be interpretable over the long lifespans required by archival applications.
This paper introduces the challenge of long-term preservation of digital geometric models. We describe a digital preservation case study for an engineering model which required, for just a single part, over 3.5 GB of data, including 39 file formats and over 750 distinct model and shape files.
Based on lessons learned in this case study, we present a framework for enhancing the preservation of geometry-centric engineering knowledge. This framework is currently being used on a number of projects in engineering education.
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Details
- Title
- A framework for preservable geometry-centric artifacts
- Creators
- William Regli - Drexel UniversityMichael Grauer - Drexel UniversityJoseph Kopena - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- 2009 SIAM/ACM Joint Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling, pp 67-78
- Series
- SPM '09
- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-70350648864
- Other Identifier
- 991019346722304721