APARSEN is a Network of Excellence that brings together an extremely diverse set of practitioner organisations and researchers in order to bring coherence, cohesion and continuity to research into barriers to the long-term accessibility and usability of digital information and data, exploiting our diversity by building a long-lived Virtual Centre of Digital Preservation Excellence.
The objective of this project may be simply stated, namely to look across the excellent work in digital preservation which is carried out in Europe and to try to bring it together under a common vision. The success of the project will be seen in the subsequent coherence and general direction of travel of research in digital preservation, with an agreed way of evaluating it and the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 – ICT-2009.4.1: Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation– under grant agreement No 269977.
APARSEN outputs:
- D13.1 Report about standardisation activities: progress to year 2
- D42.1a Annex for Report on existing initiatives and curricula regarding digital long term preservation
- D42.1 Report on existing initiatives and curricula regarding digital long term preservation
- D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs
- D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework
- D21.1 Overview of preservation services
- D16.1 Software repository
- D14.1 Report on testing environments
- D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches
- D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories
- D36.1 Business preparedness report
- D22.2(i) Set of Added Value Services and Evaluation of User Satisfaction (Interim: Month 16)
- D43.1 Survey for the Assessment of Training Material/Assessment of Digital Curation Requirements
- D26.1 Report and Strategy on Annotation, Reputation and Data Quality
- D33.1A Report on Peer Review of Digital Repositories
- D33.1B Report on peer review of research data in scholarly communication
- D22.1 Persistent Identifiers Interoperability Framework
- D24.2 Implementation and testing of an Authenticity Protocol
- D24.1 Report on Authenticity and Plan for Interoperable Authenticity Evaluation System
APARSEN presentations:
- Why persistent identifiers are crucial in digital preservation
- PIDs in Europeana
- Webinar on Interoperability of Persistent Identifier system
- PIDs in EUDAT
- PIDs in EUDAT
- Interoperability Framework for PI systems
- Standards in der digitalen Langzeitarchivierung
- Das EU Projekt APARSEN
- Quality Assurance of Research Data: Perspectives of Scientist, Infrastructure Providers, and Publishers
- The DANS Cost Model and what to do with it?
APARSEN publications:
The links of APARSEN may be summarised in this diagram:
APARSEN report at APA conference 2011
| PARSE.Insight and APARSEN Reaching a Common Vision for digital preservation research, Dr David Giaretta |
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| Towards a common vision for Testing Environments, Dr Ashley Hunter (Tessella plc) | |
| Theory and practice in Authenticity. Prof. Silvio Salza and Prof Mariella Guercio (CINI) | |
| A Framework for Persistent Identifiers. Emanuele Bellini (FRD) |
APARSEN project launch at APA 2010 conference
David Giaretta
APA/STFC
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Interactive map of actors and stakeholders in digital preservation
Available here.
Data from PARSE.Insight and Digital Preservation Europe
| APARSEN members | Roadmap to a common vision | Research topics |
