DPL Digital Preservation Lab

DPL (digital preservation lab) turns a fresh Ubuntu installation into a fully configured environment for various digital preservation tasks. DPL has been developped for teaching and experimenting. I use it in my courses at FHGR as well as in continuous education.

To set up DPL you need a fresh Ubuntu installation, run

wget -qO- https://hultarp.org/install | bash

or clone this repository and run dpl_install.sh.

Tools on DPL

In parentheses the start commands from the command line

Text Editor

• Visual Studio Code (code)
• gedit gedit

Video and Image Viewers

• Gimp (gimp)
• gThumb (gthumb)
• VLC (vlc)

Data Acquisition Tools

• Chrome-Browser to be used with the Webrecorder-Plugin (which you have to install manually)
• curl (curl)
• dd (dd)
• dvdisaster (dvdisaster)
• gddrescue (ddrescue)
• rsync (rsync)
• wget (wget)

Format Identification, Characterization and Validation

• exiftool (exiftool)
• file (file)
• JHOVE (jhove)
• md5sum (md5sum)
• Mediaconch (mediaconch)

Format Migration, Transcoding

• Handbrake (handbrake)
• Imagemagick (convert, mogrify)
• Libreoffice (libreoffice)
• Pandoc (pandoc)

Create Packages/SIP

• docuteam packer (packer)
• Bagger (bagger)

Credits and Inspiration

• Omakub
• BitCurator
• Virtual Preservation Environment for Research (ViPER), created by the Dutch Digital Heritage Network.