@INPROCEEDINGS{becker:plato,
  author = {Christoph Becker and Hannes Kulovits and Andreas Rauber and Hans Hofman},
  title = {Plato: a service-oriented decision support system for preservation planning},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'08)},
  year = {2008},
  month = {June},
  publisher = {ACM},
  abstract = {The fast changes of technologies in today’s information landscape
	have considerably shortened the lifespan of digital objects. 
	Digital preservation has become a pressing challenge. Different strategies
	such as migration and emulation have been proposed; however, the decision for a specific tool e.g. for
	format migration or an emulator is very complex. The process of evaluating potential solutions against specific requirements
	and building a plan for preserving a given set of objects is called preservation planning. So far, it is a mainly manual,
	sometimes ad-hoc process with little or no tool support.
	This paper presents a service-oriented architecture and decision support
	tool that implements a solid preservation planning process and integrates services for content characterisation,
	preservation action and automatic object comparison to provide maximum support for preservation planning endeavours.},
}