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Deployed Application Case Study Papers
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This paper introduces the challenge of digital preservation in the  area of engineering design and manufacturing and presents a  methodology to apply knowledge representation and semantic  techniques to develop Digital Engineering Archives. This work  is part of an ongoing, multi-university, effort to create  Cyber-Infrastructure-Based Engineering Repositories for  Undergraduates (CIBER-U) to support engineering design education.  The technical approach is to use knowledge representation techniques  to create formal models of engineering data elements, workflows and  processes. With these formal engineering knowledge and processes  can be captured and preserved with some guarantee of long-term  interpretability. The paper presents examples of how the techniques  can be used to encode specific engineering information    packages and workflows. These techniques are being integrated  into a semantic Wiki that supports the CIBER-U engineering education  activities across nine universities and involving over 3,500  students since 2006.