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\nCROSSING THE HALF WAY POINT<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\nAPARSEN is a \u201cNetwork of Excellence\u201d, involving all types European organisations working in digital preservation: research institutions, libraries, universities, associations and industry. It is a digital preservation project funded by the European Union 7th Framework Program RTD (research and development).<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\nMARK IN YOUR CALENDAR<\/strong><\/h2>\nCHIP-TO-CLOUD 2013<\/strong>\nSecurity Forum, Smart Trusted Technologies & Services for the Networked Society\nSeptember 25-27, 2013 in Nice , France<\/p>\nTPDL 2013, 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries<\/strong>\nSeptember 22 \u2013 26, 2013 in Valetta, Malta<\/p>\niPRES, international conference on digital preservation<\/strong>\nSeptember 2-6 , 2013, in Lisbon, Portugal\nActually in process of Call for Contributions<\/p>\nJCDL Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013<\/strong>\n\u201cDigital Libraries at the Crossroads\u201d\nJuly 22-26, 2013 in Indianapolis, USA<\/p>\nSYSTOR <\/strong>\n6th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference\nJune 30 \u00ad July 2, 2013 in Haifa, Israel<\/p>\n42nd LIBER Annual Conference<\/strong>\n“Research Information Infrastructures and the Future Role of Libraries”\nJune 26 -29, 2013 in Munich, Germany<\/p>\ni-SOCIETY 2013, International Conference on Information Society <\/strong>\nJune 24-26, 2013 in Toronto, Canada<\/p>\nOR 2013 7th International Conference on Open Repositories <\/strong>\nJuly 8- 12, 2013 in Charlottetown, Canada<\/p>\nASIS&T European Workshop 2013 Information Science and Technology Conference<\/strong>\nJune 5-6, 2013 in Turku\/\u00c5bo, Finland<\/p>\nEuropean Library Automation Group ELAG 2013 Conference<\/strong>\nMay 28-31, 2013 in Ghent, Belgium<\/p>\n <\/strong>\u201cFRAMING THE DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM\u201d International Conference<\/strong>\nMay 6 \u2013 7, 2013 in Florence, Italy<\/p>\nMW2013: Museums and the Web 2013<\/strong>\nApril 17-20, 2013 in Portland, USA<\/p>\nECLAP 2013 -2nd Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment<\/strong>\n\u201cTrust and Quality in Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries\u201d\nApril 8-10 2013 in Porto, Portugal<\/p>\nICDE 2013: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering<\/strong>\nApril 8-11, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia<\/p>\nIS&T Archiving Conference<\/strong>\nApril 2 – April 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\nResearch Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
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APARSEN is a \u201cNetwork of Excellence\u201d, involving all types European organisations working in digital preservation: research institutions, libraries, universities, associations and industry. It is a digital preservation project funded by the European Union 7th Framework Program RTD (research and development).<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\nMARK IN YOUR CALENDAR<\/strong><\/h2>\nCHIP-TO-CLOUD 2013<\/strong>\nSecurity Forum, Smart Trusted Technologies & Services for the Networked Society\nSeptember 25-27, 2013 in Nice , France<\/p>\nTPDL 2013, 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries<\/strong>\nSeptember 22 \u2013 26, 2013 in Valetta, Malta<\/p>\niPRES, international conference on digital preservation<\/strong>\nSeptember 2-6 , 2013, in Lisbon, Portugal\nActually in process of Call for Contributions<\/p>\nJCDL Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013<\/strong>\n\u201cDigital Libraries at the Crossroads\u201d\nJuly 22-26, 2013 in Indianapolis, USA<\/p>\nSYSTOR <\/strong>\n6th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference\nJune 30 \u00ad July 2, 2013 in Haifa, Israel<\/p>\n42nd LIBER Annual Conference<\/strong>\n“Research Information Infrastructures and the Future Role of Libraries”\nJune 26 -29, 2013 in Munich, Germany<\/p>\ni-SOCIETY 2013, International Conference on Information Society <\/strong>\nJune 24-26, 2013 in Toronto, Canada<\/p>\nOR 2013 7th International Conference on Open Repositories <\/strong>\nJuly 8- 12, 2013 in Charlottetown, Canada<\/p>\nASIS&T European Workshop 2013 Information Science and Technology Conference<\/strong>\nJune 5-6, 2013 in Turku\/\u00c5bo, Finland<\/p>\nEuropean Library Automation Group ELAG 2013 Conference<\/strong>\nMay 28-31, 2013 in Ghent, Belgium<\/p>\n <\/strong>\u201cFRAMING THE DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM\u201d International Conference<\/strong>\nMay 6 \u2013 7, 2013 in Florence, Italy<\/p>\nMW2013: Museums and the Web 2013<\/strong>\nApril 17-20, 2013 in Portland, USA<\/p>\nECLAP 2013 -2nd Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment<\/strong>\n\u201cTrust and Quality in Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries\u201d\nApril 8-10 2013 in Porto, Portugal<\/p>\nICDE 2013: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering<\/strong>\nApril 8-11, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia<\/p>\nIS&T Archiving Conference<\/strong>\nApril 2 – April 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\nResearch Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
CHIP-TO-CLOUD 2013<\/strong>\nSecurity Forum, Smart Trusted Technologies & Services for the Networked Society\nSeptember 25-27, 2013 in Nice , France<\/p>\nTPDL 2013, 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries<\/strong>\nSeptember 22 \u2013 26, 2013 in Valetta, Malta<\/p>\niPRES, international conference on digital preservation<\/strong>\nSeptember 2-6 , 2013, in Lisbon, Portugal\nActually in process of Call for Contributions<\/p>\nJCDL Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013<\/strong>\n\u201cDigital Libraries at the Crossroads\u201d\nJuly 22-26, 2013 in Indianapolis, USA<\/p>\nSYSTOR <\/strong>\n6th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference\nJune 30 \u00ad July 2, 2013 in Haifa, Israel<\/p>\n42nd LIBER Annual Conference<\/strong>\n“Research Information Infrastructures and the Future Role of Libraries”\nJune 26 -29, 2013 in Munich, Germany<\/p>\ni-SOCIETY 2013, International Conference on Information Society <\/strong>\nJune 24-26, 2013 in Toronto, Canada<\/p>\nOR 2013 7th International Conference on Open Repositories <\/strong>\nJuly 8- 12, 2013 in Charlottetown, Canada<\/p>\nASIS&T European Workshop 2013 Information Science and Technology Conference<\/strong>\nJune 5-6, 2013 in Turku\/\u00c5bo, Finland<\/p>\nEuropean Library Automation Group ELAG 2013 Conference<\/strong>\nMay 28-31, 2013 in Ghent, Belgium<\/p>\n <\/strong>\u201cFRAMING THE DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM\u201d International Conference<\/strong>\nMay 6 \u2013 7, 2013 in Florence, Italy<\/p>\nMW2013: Museums and the Web 2013<\/strong>\nApril 17-20, 2013 in Portland, USA<\/p>\nECLAP 2013 -2nd Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment<\/strong>\n\u201cTrust and Quality in Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries\u201d\nApril 8-10 2013 in Porto, Portugal<\/p>\nICDE 2013: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering<\/strong>\nApril 8-11, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia<\/p>\nIS&T Archiving Conference<\/strong>\nApril 2 – April 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\nResearch Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
TPDL 2013, 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries<\/strong>\nSeptember 22 \u2013 26, 2013 in Valetta, Malta<\/p>\niPRES, international conference on digital preservation<\/strong>\nSeptember 2-6 , 2013, in Lisbon, Portugal\nActually in process of Call for Contributions<\/p>\nJCDL Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013<\/strong>\n\u201cDigital Libraries at the Crossroads\u201d\nJuly 22-26, 2013 in Indianapolis, USA<\/p>\nSYSTOR <\/strong>\n6th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference\nJune 30 \u00ad July 2, 2013 in Haifa, Israel<\/p>\n42nd LIBER Annual Conference<\/strong>\n“Research Information Infrastructures and the Future Role of Libraries”\nJune 26 -29, 2013 in Munich, Germany<\/p>\ni-SOCIETY 2013, International Conference on Information Society <\/strong>\nJune 24-26, 2013 in Toronto, Canada<\/p>\nOR 2013 7th International Conference on Open Repositories <\/strong>\nJuly 8- 12, 2013 in Charlottetown, Canada<\/p>\nASIS&T European Workshop 2013 Information Science and Technology Conference<\/strong>\nJune 5-6, 2013 in Turku\/\u00c5bo, Finland<\/p>\nEuropean Library Automation Group ELAG 2013 Conference<\/strong>\nMay 28-31, 2013 in Ghent, Belgium<\/p>\n <\/strong>\u201cFRAMING THE DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM\u201d International Conference<\/strong>\nMay 6 \u2013 7, 2013 in Florence, Italy<\/p>\nMW2013: Museums and the Web 2013<\/strong>\nApril 17-20, 2013 in Portland, USA<\/p>\nECLAP 2013 -2nd Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment<\/strong>\n\u201cTrust and Quality in Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries\u201d\nApril 8-10 2013 in Porto, Portugal<\/p>\nICDE 2013: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering<\/strong>\nApril 8-11, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia<\/p>\nIS&T Archiving Conference<\/strong>\nApril 2 – April 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\nResearch Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
iPRES, international conference on digital preservation<\/strong>\nSeptember 2-6 , 2013, in Lisbon, Portugal\nActually in process of Call for Contributions<\/p>\nJCDL Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013<\/strong>\n\u201cDigital Libraries at the Crossroads\u201d\nJuly 22-26, 2013 in Indianapolis, USA<\/p>\nSYSTOR <\/strong>\n6th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference\nJune 30 \u00ad July 2, 2013 in Haifa, Israel<\/p>\n42nd LIBER Annual Conference<\/strong>\n“Research Information Infrastructures and the Future Role of Libraries”\nJune 26 -29, 2013 in Munich, Germany<\/p>\ni-SOCIETY 2013, International Conference on Information Society <\/strong>\nJune 24-26, 2013 in Toronto, Canada<\/p>\nOR 2013 7th International Conference on Open Repositories <\/strong>\nJuly 8- 12, 2013 in Charlottetown, Canada<\/p>\nASIS&T European Workshop 2013 Information Science and Technology Conference<\/strong>\nJune 5-6, 2013 in Turku\/\u00c5bo, Finland<\/p>\nEuropean Library Automation Group ELAG 2013 Conference<\/strong>\nMay 28-31, 2013 in Ghent, Belgium<\/p>\n <\/strong>\u201cFRAMING THE DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM\u201d International Conference<\/strong>\nMay 6 \u2013 7, 2013 in Florence, Italy<\/p>\nMW2013: Museums and the Web 2013<\/strong>\nApril 17-20, 2013 in Portland, USA<\/p>\nECLAP 2013 -2nd Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment<\/strong>\n\u201cTrust and Quality in Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries\u201d\nApril 8-10 2013 in Porto, Portugal<\/p>\nICDE 2013: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering<\/strong>\nApril 8-11, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia<\/p>\nIS&T Archiving Conference<\/strong>\nApril 2 – April 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\nResearch Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
JCDL Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2013<\/strong>\n\u201cDigital Libraries at the Crossroads\u201d\nJuly 22-26, 2013 in Indianapolis, USA<\/p>\nSYSTOR <\/strong>\n6th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference\nJune 30 \u00ad July 2, 2013 in Haifa, Israel<\/p>\n42nd LIBER Annual Conference<\/strong>\n“Research Information Infrastructures and the Future Role of Libraries”\nJune 26 -29, 2013 in Munich, Germany<\/p>\ni-SOCIETY 2013, International Conference on Information Society <\/strong>\nJune 24-26, 2013 in Toronto, Canada<\/p>\nOR 2013 7th International Conference on Open Repositories <\/strong>\nJuly 8- 12, 2013 in Charlottetown, Canada<\/p>\nASIS&T European Workshop 2013 Information Science and Technology Conference<\/strong>\nJune 5-6, 2013 in Turku\/\u00c5bo, Finland<\/p>\nEuropean Library Automation Group ELAG 2013 Conference<\/strong>\nMay 28-31, 2013 in Ghent, Belgium<\/p>\n <\/strong>\u201cFRAMING THE DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM\u201d International Conference<\/strong>\nMay 6 \u2013 7, 2013 in Florence, Italy<\/p>\nMW2013: Museums and the Web 2013<\/strong>\nApril 17-20, 2013 in Portland, USA<\/p>\nECLAP 2013 -2nd Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment<\/strong>\n\u201cTrust and Quality in Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries\u201d\nApril 8-10 2013 in Porto, Portugal<\/p>\nICDE 2013: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering<\/strong>\nApril 8-11, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia<\/p>\nIS&T Archiving Conference<\/strong>\nApril 2 – April 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\nResearch Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
SYSTOR <\/strong>\n6th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference\nJune 30 \u00ad July 2, 2013 in Haifa, Israel<\/p>\n42nd LIBER Annual Conference<\/strong>\n“Research Information Infrastructures and the Future Role of Libraries”\nJune 26 -29, 2013 in Munich, Germany<\/p>\ni-SOCIETY 2013, International Conference on Information Society <\/strong>\nJune 24-26, 2013 in Toronto, Canada<\/p>\nOR 2013 7th International Conference on Open Repositories <\/strong>\nJuly 8- 12, 2013 in Charlottetown, Canada<\/p>\nASIS&T European Workshop 2013 Information Science and Technology Conference<\/strong>\nJune 5-6, 2013 in Turku\/\u00c5bo, Finland<\/p>\nEuropean Library Automation Group ELAG 2013 Conference<\/strong>\nMay 28-31, 2013 in Ghent, Belgium<\/p>\n <\/strong>\u201cFRAMING THE DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM\u201d International Conference<\/strong>\nMay 6 \u2013 7, 2013 in Florence, Italy<\/p>\nMW2013: Museums and the Web 2013<\/strong>\nApril 17-20, 2013 in Portland, USA<\/p>\nECLAP 2013 -2nd Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment<\/strong>\n\u201cTrust and Quality in Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries\u201d\nApril 8-10 2013 in Porto, Portugal<\/p>\nICDE 2013: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering<\/strong>\nApril 8-11, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia<\/p>\nIS&T Archiving Conference<\/strong>\nApril 2 – April 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\nResearch Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
42nd LIBER Annual Conference<\/strong>\n“Research Information Infrastructures and the Future Role of Libraries”\nJune 26 -29, 2013 in Munich, Germany<\/p>\ni-SOCIETY 2013, International Conference on Information Society <\/strong>\nJune 24-26, 2013 in Toronto, Canada<\/p>\nOR 2013 7th International Conference on Open Repositories <\/strong>\nJuly 8- 12, 2013 in Charlottetown, Canada<\/p>\nASIS&T European Workshop 2013 Information Science and Technology Conference<\/strong>\nJune 5-6, 2013 in Turku\/\u00c5bo, Finland<\/p>\nEuropean Library Automation Group ELAG 2013 Conference<\/strong>\nMay 28-31, 2013 in Ghent, Belgium<\/p>\n <\/strong>\u201cFRAMING THE DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM\u201d International Conference<\/strong>\nMay 6 \u2013 7, 2013 in Florence, Italy<\/p>\nMW2013: Museums and the Web 2013<\/strong>\nApril 17-20, 2013 in Portland, USA<\/p>\nECLAP 2013 -2nd Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment<\/strong>\n\u201cTrust and Quality in Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries\u201d\nApril 8-10 2013 in Porto, Portugal<\/p>\nICDE 2013: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering<\/strong>\nApril 8-11, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia<\/p>\nIS&T Archiving Conference<\/strong>\nApril 2 – April 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\nResearch Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
i-SOCIETY 2013, International Conference on Information Society <\/strong>\nJune 24-26, 2013 in Toronto, Canada<\/p>\nOR 2013 7th International Conference on Open Repositories <\/strong>\nJuly 8- 12, 2013 in Charlottetown, Canada<\/p>\nASIS&T European Workshop 2013 Information Science and Technology Conference<\/strong>\nJune 5-6, 2013 in Turku\/\u00c5bo, Finland<\/p>\nEuropean Library Automation Group ELAG 2013 Conference<\/strong>\nMay 28-31, 2013 in Ghent, Belgium<\/p>\n <\/strong>\u201cFRAMING THE DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM\u201d International Conference<\/strong>\nMay 6 \u2013 7, 2013 in Florence, Italy<\/p>\nMW2013: Museums and the Web 2013<\/strong>\nApril 17-20, 2013 in Portland, USA<\/p>\nECLAP 2013 -2nd Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment<\/strong>\n\u201cTrust and Quality in Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries\u201d\nApril 8-10 2013 in Porto, Portugal<\/p>\nICDE 2013: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering<\/strong>\nApril 8-11, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia<\/p>\nIS&T Archiving Conference<\/strong>\nApril 2 – April 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\nResearch Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
OR 2013 7th International Conference on Open Repositories <\/strong>\nJuly 8- 12, 2013 in Charlottetown, Canada<\/p>\nASIS&T European Workshop 2013 Information Science and Technology Conference<\/strong>\nJune 5-6, 2013 in Turku\/\u00c5bo, Finland<\/p>\nEuropean Library Automation Group ELAG 2013 Conference<\/strong>\nMay 28-31, 2013 in Ghent, Belgium<\/p>\n <\/strong>\u201cFRAMING THE DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM\u201d International Conference<\/strong>\nMay 6 \u2013 7, 2013 in Florence, Italy<\/p>\nMW2013: Museums and the Web 2013<\/strong>\nApril 17-20, 2013 in Portland, USA<\/p>\nECLAP 2013 -2nd Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment<\/strong>\n\u201cTrust and Quality in Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries\u201d\nApril 8-10 2013 in Porto, Portugal<\/p>\nICDE 2013: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering<\/strong>\nApril 8-11, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia<\/p>\nIS&T Archiving Conference<\/strong>\nApril 2 – April 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\nResearch Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
ASIS&T European Workshop 2013 Information Science and Technology Conference<\/strong>\nJune 5-6, 2013 in Turku\/\u00c5bo, Finland<\/p>\nEuropean Library Automation Group ELAG 2013 Conference<\/strong>\nMay 28-31, 2013 in Ghent, Belgium<\/p>\n <\/strong>\u201cFRAMING THE DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM\u201d International Conference<\/strong>\nMay 6 \u2013 7, 2013 in Florence, Italy<\/p>\nMW2013: Museums and the Web 2013<\/strong>\nApril 17-20, 2013 in Portland, USA<\/p>\nECLAP 2013 -2nd Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment<\/strong>\n\u201cTrust and Quality in Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries\u201d\nApril 8-10 2013 in Porto, Portugal<\/p>\nICDE 2013: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering<\/strong>\nApril 8-11, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia<\/p>\nIS&T Archiving Conference<\/strong>\nApril 2 – April 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\nResearch Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
European Library Automation Group ELAG 2013 Conference<\/strong>\nMay 28-31, 2013 in Ghent, Belgium<\/p>\n <\/strong>\u201cFRAMING THE DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM\u201d International Conference<\/strong>\nMay 6 \u2013 7, 2013 in Florence, Italy<\/p>\nMW2013: Museums and the Web 2013<\/strong>\nApril 17-20, 2013 in Portland, USA<\/p>\nECLAP 2013 -2nd Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment<\/strong>\n\u201cTrust and Quality in Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries\u201d\nApril 8-10 2013 in Porto, Portugal<\/p>\nICDE 2013: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering<\/strong>\nApril 8-11, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia<\/p>\nIS&T Archiving Conference<\/strong>\nApril 2 – April 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\nResearch Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
<\/strong>\u201cFRAMING THE DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM\u201d International Conference<\/strong>\nMay 6 \u2013 7, 2013 in Florence, Italy<\/p>\nMW2013: Museums and the Web 2013<\/strong>\nApril 17-20, 2013 in Portland, USA<\/p>\nECLAP 2013 -2nd Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment<\/strong>\n\u201cTrust and Quality in Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries\u201d\nApril 8-10 2013 in Porto, Portugal<\/p>\nICDE 2013: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering<\/strong>\nApril 8-11, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia<\/p>\nIS&T Archiving Conference<\/strong>\nApril 2 – April 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\nResearch Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
MW2013: Museums and the Web 2013<\/strong>\nApril 17-20, 2013 in Portland, USA<\/p>\nECLAP 2013 -2nd Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment<\/strong>\n\u201cTrust and Quality in Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries\u201d\nApril 8-10 2013 in Porto, Portugal<\/p>\nICDE 2013: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering<\/strong>\nApril 8-11, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia<\/p>\nIS&T Archiving Conference<\/strong>\nApril 2 – April 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\nResearch Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
ECLAP 2013 -2nd Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment<\/strong>\n\u201cTrust and Quality in Cultural Heritage Digital Libraries\u201d\nApril 8-10 2013 in Porto, Portugal<\/p>\nICDE 2013: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering<\/strong>\nApril 8-11, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia<\/p>\nIS&T Archiving Conference<\/strong>\nApril 2 – April 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\nResearch Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
ICDE 2013: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering<\/strong>\nApril 8-11, 2013 in Brisbane, Australia<\/p>\nIS&T Archiving Conference<\/strong>\nApril 2 – April 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\nResearch Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
IS&T Archiving Conference<\/strong>\nApril 2 – April 5, 2013 in Washington, DC, USA<\/p>\nResearch Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
Research Data Alliance Launch<\/strong>\nMarch 18-20, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden<\/p>\n5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
5th Kongress Bibliothek & Information Deutschland <\/strong>\nMarch 11- 14, Leipzig, Germany<\/p>\nICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
ICDS 2013: The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society<\/strong>\nFebruary 24 – March 1, 2013 in Nice, France<\/p>\nDigital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it<\/strong><\/h3>\nLibraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\nThis question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\nShould we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\nRead more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
Libraries, archives and museums have been extremely successful in preserving centuries old paper-based, cultural and scientific heritage. How well are they doing with the growing and rapidly ageing digital-based heritage?<\/p>\n
This question has been haunting us (the digital preservation community) for a while now, even though the digital era has only just begun. We are still unsure about so many things: Are we keeping the right information?<\/p>\n
Should we be more selective? What is the right preservation strategy: safeguarding the original containers and carriers, transferring the data to long-lasting media, emulating the hardware before it becomes obsolete? Which metadata should we record? Etc.<\/p>\n
Read more at\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nAPARSEN Friends<\/strong><\/h2>\nSCAPE<\/h3>\nThe SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
The SCAPE Project <\/strong>(2011-2014) is researching the planning and execution of computing-intensive digital preservation processes such as the large-scale ingestion or migration of large and complex data sets. For a good introduction to SCAPE, with an overview presentation, you can check this<\/a> recent blog:<\/p>\nTraining events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
Training events<\/strong>\nOn 6-7 December 2012, the first SCAPE training event took place in Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal. Attendees learned about, and gained practical experience of, digital preservation identification and characterisation tools. Resources, presentations and training materials from the event have been uploaded to the SCAPE wiki pages.<\/a><\/p>\nSave the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
Save the date: the next SCAPE training event will take place on 16-17 September 2013 at The British Library, London. The focus of this event is on large scale preservation infrastructure for preservation actions. More information will be made available through the website: http:\/\/www.scape-project.eu.<\/a><\/p>\nEUDAT<\/h3>\nEUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\nAfter one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\nMore information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
EUDAT is a new pan-European initiative aiming to lay out the foundations of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) in which centres offering community-specific support services to their users can rely on a set of common data services shared between different research communities.<\/p>\n
After one year of activity, EUDAT has reviewed the requirements of a first subset of communities from linguistics (CLARIN), solid earth sciences (EPOS), climate sciences (ENES), environmental sciences (LIFEWATCH), and biological and medical sciences (VPH), and shortlisted four generic services: data replication from site to site, data staging to compute facilities, metadata, and easy storage. While these services are being deployed on the infrastructure, the next generation of services is already being discussed. EUDAT is calling for the contributions of all stakeholders \u2013 in particular research communities \u2013 interested in adapting their solutions or contributing to the design of the CDI.<\/p>\n
More information is available from http:\/\/www.eudat.eu<\/a><\/p>\nTIMBUS Project<\/h3>\nThe EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
The EU co-funded TIMBUS project (2011 – 2014, http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/<\/a>) addresses the challenge of business process preservation to ensure the long-term continued access to processes and services. 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).<\/p>\nAs TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\nVideos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
As TIMBUS and APARSEN are initiatives that complement each other especially on the topic of sustainability they plan to share and discuss their results by organising common workshops, webinars, summer schools, trainings etc. They will make use of both networks\u2019 multiplier effect when it comes to communication and awareness raising for the needs of DP<\/p>\n
Videos from the Training Day<\/strong> on Digital Preservation of Business Processes that took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 are now available on YouTube here<\/a>\nCourse Content: Introduction to Process Preservation; Risk Management; Business Continuity Management; BCM Demo; Infrastructure, Architecture and Storage; Legal Aspect of Digital Preservation.<\/p>\nTIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
TIMBUS Newsletter <\/strong>now available here<\/a>(1.77 MB). Inside this issue: Welcome to the First Newsletter ; The TIMBUS Approach to Business Process Preservation; Use Case \u201c Civil Engineering Infrastructures\u201d; TIMBUS at iPres 2012; Introducing TIMBUS Partners: SQS; TIMBUS at the International Legal Informatics Symposium; Training Day: Resilient Business Processes; TIMBUS Topics at DPC Briefing Days. Register<\/strong> to receive future newsletters by email http:\/\/timbusproject.net\/register<\/a><\/p>\nPast Conferences and APARSEN Workshops<\/strong><\/h3>\nAPA 2012 Conference<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
The 2012 APA conference on November 6-7, 2012 addressed the theme \u201cValue from data now and into the future\u201d and brought together leaders in the field from Europe and around the world, including academic, large scientific research, industrial and commercial stakeholders.\nA panel discussion about the APARSEN aims of reaching a Common Vision and the role of a Virtual Centre of Excellence was held in the course of this conference.\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: videos and the presentations of all the talks are available\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nAPARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
APARSEN Workshop Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems: Learning how to bring them together<\/strong>\nFlorence, December 13, 2012\nThe new model of Interoperability Framework (IF) has been presented by the APARSEN team. Representatives of different PI initiatives reported on the current state of the art and exposed their position towards needs and opportunity of interoperability among PI systems.\nRead more\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
Photos\/blogs covering the event: see\nhere<\/a><\/p>\nWorkshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
Workshop on Sustainability & APARSEN Network of Excellence<\/strong>\nThis workshop took place on January 17 in Amsterdam and was part of the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) (see: http:\/\/www.dcc.ac.uk\/events\/idcc13<\/a>). The workshop dealt with the topics preservation services, storage solutions and cost issues on a very practical level. Read more by following\nthis link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDefragmenting the Digital Preservation space: Progress towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence<\/strong><\/h2>\nAims and impacts<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n\nProvision of services and consultancy<\/li>\nTraining and professional development<\/li>\nDevelopment of methods, tools and software services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
The objective of APARSEN is to bring together work in digital preservation under a common vision, allowing us to see how and where the individual pieces of work fit together.\nThe final result of the project will be to provide a consistent vision for future research and practice in digital preservation, supported by the existence of an internationally recognised Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE).\nMany areas of digital preservation activity will be influenced by the vision and supported by the VCoE, including:<\/p>\n
In the longer term we expect the following impacts<\/strong> on particular communities to result from APARSEN:<\/p>\n\nResearch data users<\/strong> will be able to access, understand and use the massive range of digital information available to them from across the globe and across time. We assume here that the system complexities, security and legal obstacles can be overcome.<\/li>\nInformation curators<\/strong> will have choice of well tested, robust, cost effective tools and processes for preserving their digital holdings, and they will be confident in their ability to preserve their holdings.<\/li>\nDecision makers<\/strong> will have a better understanding of the costs and benefits of their data preservation responsibilities. They will be able to have comfort from the external certification of the repositories for which they are responsible.<\/li>\nResearchers<\/strong> will enjoy a respectable academic standing, with large numbers of graduates in digital preservation supplying a large demand in commerce, culture and society. The assumption we make is that there is a restructured landscape and a sufficient societal demand for digital preservation. The network of contacts and cooperation will give new fruits and feed debate, exchange of ideas and new initiatives after APARSEN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nThe existing workforce of digital preservation facilities<\/strong> will benefit from a more comprehensive and more readily accessible range of career development opportunities.<\/li>\nTechnology and services Suppliers<\/strong> will be able to supply society with an interoperable set of tools to survive and swim in the tidal wave of data which threatens to engulf and drown institutions, companies and citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nProgress and results of the second year<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n\nIn terms of the Common Vision, we have brought together various approaches to digital preservation in order to come to a mutual understanding of the various requirements and currently available solutions. This work identified commonalities of digital preservation in different disciplines and sectors as well as revealing where specific solutions are essential. Deriving from these findings we are able to indicate where services as consultancy, training, etc. are needed at the same time showing gaps which require further research. In parallel, these findings were taken up and included in the ideas about the VCoE.<\/li>\nProgress in defragmentation of digital preservation efforts is organised through four thematically linked topics: trust<\/em>, sustainability<\/em>, usability<\/em> and access. <\/em>Integration and examination of results within the first half of the project have been carried out in several APARSEN workshops at conferences and in a series of webinars with external experts. These results include:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTrust <\/strong><\/h3>\nA collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
The APARSEN consortium has made progress in the development of a Common Vision in digital preservation and the creation of a VCoE to carry on the work initiated in APARSEN. Both activities aim at defragmentation of the digital preservation landscape in Europe.<\/p>\n
A collection of Testing environments<\/strong><\/em> have been examined and the proposed common testing approach has been applied. The workpackage Testing environments <\/strong><\/em>provides a framework within which the efficacy and applicability of proposed preservation tools and techniques can be evaluated. Further details will be published soon on this site.<\/p>\nSustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\nWork on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
We have analysed and outlined the Preservation services landscape. This work resulted in a compilation of existing services and at the same time identified gaps in this area. Further details will be available soon.<\/p>\n
Work on Storage solutions has drawn on the wide range of experience in APARSEN partners\u2019 institutions. Current storage practices have been surveyed as a basis for comparison where applicable, evaluation of options and in consequence recommendations on storage solutions fulfilling digital preservation principles have been formulated. Further details are available in the report D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs.<\/a><\/p>\nCosts of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
Costs of digital preservation are a crucial question when it comes to implementation in institutions. Therefore APARSEN has analysed existing cost models for digital preservation and mapped them against efforts of introducing standards on audit and certification of digital repositories. Further details are available in the report D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
We have initiated the analyses of DP Business cases by examining the state of current implementation of practices in digital preservation among the community of research libraries, with a special focus on the economic and managerial aspects of such endeavors. Further details are available in the report D36.1 Business Preparedness Report.<\/a><\/p>\nUsability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
Usability<\/strong>\nWe have identified Common standards as well as recognized standardisation gaps and standardisation activities in domains of Libraries and Museums, Publishing, Industry and Science. We have produced a database of standards that will continue to be updated and made accessible on the APARSEN website<\/a>.<\/p>\nWe have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
We have set up a publicly accessible software repository containing software and pointers to software together with descriptions, categorisations and annotations which will allow users to find appropriate tools for their requirements, and to provide evidence for this. Further details are available in the report D16.1 Software Repository. <\/a><\/p>\nWe have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
We have addressed Interoperability and intelligibility issues and produced a report on interoperability objectives and guidelines for practical interoperability issues. Further details are available in the report D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches<\/a><\/p>\nAccess<\/strong><\/h3>\nOn-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
On-going work has focused on defining added value services for Persistent identifiers that may be built on top of the interoperability framework<\/a> previously defined. This work constitutes the basis for a prototype to be developed later in the project. Further details are available in the report D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t
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