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{{Technical|date= November 2012}} |
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{{Research-Project| |
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name=TIMBUS| |
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title= Digital Preservation for Timeless Business Processes and Services| |
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keywords=[[Business Continuity]], [[Risk Management]], [[Digital Preservation]], [[Business Process]], [[Service]], [[SaaS]], IoS, [[IoT]]| |
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fundingAgency=European Union| |
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frameworkProgramme=[[FP7]] | |
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researchObjective= Digital preservation of processes and services | |
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projectType=Collaborative Project (generic)| |
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image=Primary_TIMBUS_Logo.png | |
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projectReference=FP7-ICT-2009-6| |
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coordinator=SAP Research, Belfast| |
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participants= Industry partners: <br/> |
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* Intel (Ireland) <ref>{{cite web |title=Intel |work= web site |url= http://www.intel.com/en_XE/intel/technology/labs/index.htm |accessdate= 15 May 2012 }}</ref> |
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* SAP – Lead partner (Germany) <ref>{{cite web |title=SAP |work= web site |url= http://www.sap.com/uk/index.epx |accessdate= 15 May 2012 }}</ref> |
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* Software Quality Systems (Germany) <ref>{{cite web |title=SQS (Software Quality Systems) |work= web site |url= http://www.sqs.com/en/group/index.php |accessdate= 15 May 2012 }}</ref> |
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Research partners: <br/> |
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* Digital Preservation Coalition (UK) <ref>{{cite web |title=DPC (Digital Preservation Coalition) |work= web site |url=http://www.dpconline.org/ |accessdate= 15 May 2012 }}</ref> |
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* INESC – ID (Portugal) <ref>{{cite web |title= INESC – ID |work= web site |url= www.inesc-id.pt |accessdate= 15 May 2012 }}</ref> |
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* Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) <ref>{{cite web |title=KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) |work= web site |url= http://www.teco.edu/research/projects/timbus/index.html |accessdate= 15 May 2012 }}</ref> |
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* Laboratório de Intrumentação e Física Experimental de Particulas (Portugal) <ref>{{cite web |title=LIP (Laboratório de Intrumentação e Física Experimental de Particulas) |work= web site |url= http://www.lip.pt/index.php?&lg=en |accessdate= 15 May 2012 }}</ref> |
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* Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (Portugal) <ref>{{cite web |title=LNEC (Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil)|work= web site |url= http://www.lnec.pt/organization/cti/r_d |accessdate= 15 May 2012 }}</ref> |
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* Institute of Information, Telecommunication and Media Law, WWU Münster (Germany) <ref>{{cite web |title=ITM Münster|work= web site |url= http://www.uni-muenster.de/Jura.itm/ie.html |accessdate= 15 May 2012 }}</ref> |
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SME partners: <br/> |
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* Caixa Mágica Software (Portugal) <ref>{{cite web |title= CMS (Caixa Mágica Software) |work= web site |url= http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/a_index.php/ |accessdate= 15 May 2012 }}</ref> |
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* iPharro Media (Germany) <ref>{{cite web |title= iPharro Media |work= web site |url= www.ipharro.com |accessdate= 15 May 2012 }}</ref> |
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* Secure Business Austria (Austria) <ref>{{cite web |title=SBA (Secure Business Austria)|work= web site |url= http://www.sba-research.org/ |accessdate= 15 May 2012 }}</ref> |
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budget= 11.7 m€| |
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funding= 7.8 m€| |
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start=1 April 2011| |
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end=31 March 2014| |
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website= http://timbusproject.org |
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The EU co-funded '''TIMBUS''' project ‘’Timeless Business Processes and Services’’) addresses the challenge of digital preservation of business processes and services to ensure their long-term continued access. TIMBUS builds on feasibility and cost-benefit analysis in order to analyse and recommend which aspects of a business process should be preserved and how to preserve them. It delivers methodologies and tools to capture and formalise business processes on both technical and organisational levels. This includes their underlying software and hardware infrastructures and dependencies on third-party services and information. TIMBUS aligns digital preservation with well-established methods for enterprise risk management (ERM) and business continuity management (BCM). |
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==Approach== |
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TIMBUS breaks business process preservation down into three functions: |
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1. Planning performs risk analysis and determines the requirements for preserving the relevant business processes. |
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2. Preservation preserves the business processes. |
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3. Redeployment reactivates and reruns the business processes. |
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TIMBUS products are validated in three scenarios: engineering services & systems, civil engineering infrastructures and eScience & mathematical simulations. |
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==Motivation== |
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The commercial imperative for business process preservation comes from several pressures. Heavily regulated industries, such as pharmaceuticals and aircraft manufacture must fully document processes so that they can be audited, reproduced, or diagnosed. Long-lived companies must manage services across multiple changes in technical environments. Organisations that use escrow services to mitigate risk must be confident that all of the needed information is demonstrably included in the escrow agreement and services. Organisations undergoing major staff changes must ensure that they retain the knowledge needed to operate or re-instate production processes. In addition to publications and data, academics need the software and process information to assess the validity of the data and the derived scientific claims. The same provenance information that can provide a key in regulated industries can also support credit assignment in academia. All industries benefit from analysis of processes that may lead to their continuous improvement. Memory institutions need to document the provenance of their digital collections as they undergo format-shifts to prove the authenticity or quality of their process products. |
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==Stakeholders== |
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TIMBUS is executed by a consortium of industry, research and SME partners from across Europe. This involvement of industry in a digital preservation project is a sign that awareness of the need for preserving digital objects over the long-term is spreading from the traditional champions in memory institutions and heavily regulated private sectors to the general private sector. |
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==References== |
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== External links == |
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* [http://timbusproject.net/ TIMBUS Project Home] |
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* [http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm Seventh Framework Programme home page] |
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* [http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm European Commission] |
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==Related Projects== |
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_Programmes_for_Research_and_Technological_Development] |
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[[Category:FP7 Projects]] |
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[[Category:Public administration]] |
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