Simona Rabinovici-Cohen – Haifa, Israel

Simona Rabinovici-Cohen is a research staff member at the IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel. She holds M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in computer science, both from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Simona leads Preservation DataStore Cloud that provides preservation-aware cloud based storage services to ENSURE, an FP7 European Union integrated project. Preservation DataStores was also the storage infrastructure component in the concluded FP6 CASPAR integrated project. In SNIA, Simona co-chairs Long Term Retention technical working group that develops the Self-contained Information Retention Format (SIRF) towards standardization. Prior to that, Simona was the leader of various projects in the area of information integration and knowledge management systems, including kiosk technology deployed in the Hermitage museum in Russia, data integration for performance management, integrated medical records, biomedical information integration, and IBM Clinical Genomics solution.

Abstracts

Long Term Digital Preservation – an IT Perspective

• As the world becomes digital, we are facing the serious challenge of economically preserving and retaining access to a wide variety of digital content for dozens of years.
  To address this challenge, specialized preservation-aware IT infrastructure is required that supports efficient automated processes in preservation systems. The emergence of cloud environments hold the promise to further enable flexible data sharing and optimized storage services at low cost. We will present advanced storage components and tools for preservation systems in cloud environments, that some of them are being examined in CASPAR and ENSURE EU projects. We’ll also discuss storage standardization efforts for Self-contained Information Retention Format (SIRF) done in SNIA.