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Welcome to the Planets Testbed.

There are countless approaches to digital preservation available, making use of a variety of migration, characterisation and emulation tools, but which is the best approach to take? The Planets Testbed provides a dedicated research environment where services and data can be experimented upon, results can be evaluated and outcomes shared with the wider community.

By providing a dedicated hardware and software environment the Testbed allows different approaches to be analysed systematically, so that results can be benchmarked and outcomes can be empirically compared.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Testbed and You

Log into the Testbed and test tools and services against benchmark content or your own data.

If you have any interest in which digital preservation tools and approaches perform the best in a variety of situations you can browse through the experiments database and learn from the successes and failures of other experiments.

You may even choose to replicate earlier experiments to validate the outcomes that were noted. By making experiment results available the testbed will provide scientific value to the broader community of content owners and memory institutions.