Cinderella's Stick

Yannis Tzitzikas is Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete (Greece) and Affiliated Researcher in the Information Systems Lab (ISL) at FORTH-ICS (Greece) and coordinator of the Semantic Access and Retrieval group (http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl/sar). His research focuses on semantic data management, exploratory search and digital preservation. Over the last years he had an active role to several EU projects (iMarine, BlueBRIDGE) including the digital preservation-related projects CASPAR, SCIDIP-ES and APARSEN NoE where he was the leader of the work package on interoperability. He has published more than 120 papers in refereed international conferences and journals and received two best paper awards. Yannis Marketakis works as an R&D Engineer in the Information System Laboratory at FORTH-ICS (GR). His main interests include: information systems, conceptual modeling, knowledge representation using Semantic Web technologies, data integration and object-oriented languages. He has been involved in several EU and national projects (including iMarine, BlueBRIDGE, VRE4EIC and others) as well as in the digital preservation-related EU projects CASPAR and SCIDIP-ES. He has participated as an author in more than 35 scientific publications.

1 A Few Words About Digital Preservation And Book Overview.- 2 The Fairy Tale Of Cinderella.- 3 Daphne (A Modern Cinderella).- 4 Reading the Contents of the USB Stick.- 5 First Contact with the Contents of the USB Stick.- 6 The File Poem.html: On Reading Characters.- 7 The File MyPlace.png: On Getting the Provenance of a Digital Object.- 8 The File todo.csv - On Understanding Data Values.- 9 The File destroyAll.exe: On Executing Proprietary Software.- 10 The File Mymusic.class: On Decompiling Software.- 11 The File yyy.java: On Compiling And Running Software.- 12 The File myFriendsBook.war: On Running Web Applications.- 13 The File roulette.BAS: On Running Obsolete Software.- 14 The Folder myExperiment: On Verifying and Reproducing Data.- 15 The File MyContacts.con: On Reading Unknown Digital Resources.- 16 The File SecretMeeting.Txt: On Authenticity Checking.- 17 The Personal Archive Of Robert: On Preservation Planning.- 18 The Meta-Pattern: Toward a Common Umbrella.- 19 How RobertEventually Found Daphne.- 20 Daphne's Dream.- 21 Epilogue.

"'Cinderella's Stick' is an excellent book for all readers in research libraries. It provides the right concepts in a very smart and innovative way, and it underlines that the amount of digital information that we alone produce is immense and the challenges of fragility are here to stay." (Giannis Tsakonas, Liber Quarterly, Vol. 29(1), 2019)