This web-based documentation presents the Personal Preservation Pilot I & II as outcome of ForgetIT's
application scenario work package WP9.
It is part of the deliverables D9.3, D9.4, D9.5 and focuses on the documentation of the pilots.
In November 2015, Pilot II has been finished and reported in D9.4.
In January 2016, ForgetIT has ended and deliverable D9.5 concludes WP9.
This documentation has been updated since with the most relevant outcomes.
Based on the Semantic Desktop approach for Personal Information Management, this pilot implements personal preservation in a desktop computer setting. It contributes to realize the ForgetIT goals of managed forgetting, contextual remembering, and synergetic preservation as well as takes advantage of ForgetIT's innovative methodological approach for information systems in the Semantic Desktop itself.
This documentation motivates the Semantic Desktop approach for ForgetIT, provides an overview on the components of the pilot supporting Personal Information Management of a user, and shows how forgetting and preservation is realized in this pilot.
Furthermore, dedicated applications introduced for the personal preservation application scenario are explained: the PIMO Photo Organization app for getting hold of photo collections and richer contextual information for preservation, the PIMO Diary for contextual remembering, the semantic editor Seed for supporting Semantic Writing and early contextualization of texts throughout the whole Semantic Desktop.
The Personal Preservation Pilot is an implementation being part of the PoF Framework (where technical details
are explained in the final deliverables D8.6 (former D8.3) and following the Preserve-or-Forget Reference
Model as explained in deliverable D8.5 (former D8.2)
(Most deliverables can be found on ForgetIT's public
deliverable page.)
The pilot was made possible by the close cooperation of WP9 with all ForgetIT work packages. This resulted in successfully deploying and running of the pilot in the ForgetIT sandbox environment connected to ForgetIT's Preserve-or-Forget (PoF) middleware components and the preservation system as well as using components from the work packages in the pilot. This allows for preservation of material on the computer with connection to the Semantic Desktop infrastructure as well as restoring from the archive which is also embedded in the Semantic Desktop.