Three years of SCAPE
SCAPE is proud to look back at another successful project year. During the third year the team produced many new tools, e.g. ToMaR, a tool which wraps command line tools into Hadoop MapReduce jobs. Other tools like xcorrSound and C3PO have been developed further.
This year’s All-Staff Meeting took place mid-February in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. The team organised a number of general sessions, during which the project partners presented demos of and elevator pitches for the tools and services they developed in SCAPE. It was very interesting for all meeting participants to see the results achieved so far. The demos and pitches were also useful for re-focusing on the big picture of SCAPE. During the main meeting sessions the participants mainly focused on take up and productization of SCAPE tools.
Another central topic of the meeting was integration. Until the end of the project the partners will put an emphasis on integrating the results further. To prove scalability of the tools, the team set up a number of operative Hadoop clusters instances (both central and local), which are currently being used for the evaluation of the tools and workflows.
Another focus lies on the sustainability of SCAPE tools. The SCAPE team is working towards documenting the tools for both developers and users. SCAPE outcomes will be curated by the Open Planets Foundation until the end of the project and will keep them available.
In September 2014 SCAPE is organising a final event in collaboration with APARSEN. The workshop is planned to take place at the Digital Libraries 2014 conference in London, where SCAPE will have its final, overall presentation. The workshop is directed towards developers, content holders, and data managers. The SCAPE team will present tools and services developed since 2011. A special focus will lie on newly and further developed open source tools for scalable preservation actions; SCAPE’s scalable Platform architecture; and its policy-based Planning and Watch solutions.

Last December, SCAPE successfully organised its first public training event:
During the coming project year, the different SCAPE teams will work towards releasing the final version of the SCAPE preservation platform, and improving the SCAPE components in order to meet requirements for scalability. Dissemination, training and sustainability activities will continue as well. Planning for Year 3 has started at a very successful All-Staff Meeting, held in February 2013 in Paris. The agenda included a large number of sub-project and work package meetings, as well as of general cross-project sessions. During a workshop the project members identified the most successful and productive project results so far. The workshop results were very useful in gaining an overview of the current status of developments and to re-focus current work on the main project goals. The SCAPE team is looking forward to another very productive project year!