o:294270 How Clean is Your Software? The Role of Software Validation in Digital Preservation Research Projects Paper - iPRES 2011 - Singapore en The emphasis during the last three EC Framework Programs on Digital Preservation (DP) has enhanced our understanding of the boundaries of the problem, produced new methods, and supported the construction of preservation tools. In the case of methods and tools, measuring their suitability has emerged as a focus of research. What evidence does the DP community have that the digital preservation tools perform the functions they are supposed to and that they align with original specifications? This paper summarizes the efforts of the Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent ArchiviNg (SHAMAN) project to create and implement software validation as a means to gauge the fitness-for-purpose of software outputs. The paper concludes by demonstrating the applicability of the validation approach to preservation projects in general. iPRES, Singapore, digital preservation, software validation, evaluation, SHAMAN 2013-06-26T10:05:05.338Z 44 yes 46 Leo Konstantelos Perla Innocenti person Seamus Ross person application/pdf 469361 http://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:294270 no yes 15 70 12 1068391 1068397