Epimenides: An information system offering automated reasoning for the needs of digital preservation

Yannis Kargakis, Yannis Tzitzikas
2014 IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries  
Epimenides is a system that can be used in the context of digital archives and digital libraries for helping archivists in checking whether the archived digital artifacts remain intelligible and functional, and in identifying the consequences of probable losses. A distinctive feature of Epimenides is that it can model also converters and emulators, and the adopted modelling approach enables the automatic reasoning needed for reducing the human effort required for checking whether a task can be
more » ... erformed over a digital object (or digital collection in general).
doi:10.1109/jcdl.2014.6970200 dblp:conf/jcdl/KargakisT14 fatcat:anjp7ecq4zhppflfrbmdayjzjm