Welcome to the APA and APARSEN website
for excellence in Digital Preservation
Save the Date: 4th – 5th June 2013
First APARSEN Training Event: Trust and Digital Preservation
Royal Academy of Ireland, Dublin
New results from APARSEN
- D36.1 Business preparedness report
- D32.1 Report on cost parameters for digital repositories
- D25.1 Interoperability objectives and approaches
- D16.1 Software repository
- D22.2 Description of a set of added value services for Persistent Identifier Interoperability Framework
- D23.1 Storage solutions summary of inputs
Digital encoding has become the dominant way in which we create, shape and exchange information, but this dependence carries many risks.
- As digital technology advances, hardware and software may become outmoded and information may become inaccessible
- Other users may be unable to understand or use data
- Access and use restrictions may make it difficult for others to re-use data
- The ability to identify the location of data may be lost
- The current custodian of the data may cease to exist
- The ones we trust to look after the digital holdings may let us down
Today’s research community must assume responsibility for building a robust data and information infrastructure for the future. Digital preservation is too big an issue for individual institutions or even sectors to address on their own. The answer to these challenges calls for coordinated approaches on both national and international level.
Community News
- The 2013 International Data Rescue Award in the Geosciences - deadline Oct 10 2013
- Joint OpenAIRE/LIBER Workshop : ‘Dealing with Data: What’s the Role for the Library’. 28 May, Gent, Belgium
- Screening the Future 2013: Crossing Boundaries for AV Preservation, May 7-8, London, Tate Modern
- KDLA chooses Preservica for its digital repository
- iPRES 2013 - Call for Contributions
- APARSEN Workshop: Sustainability and the APARSEN Network of Excellence
- Archives of Michigan signs new deal to preserve historic electronic records
- David Giaretta receives 2012 Emmett Leahy Award - see http://www.emmettleahyaward.org/
- APARSEN Workshop at 21st Panhellenic Academic Libraries Conference, Univ of Piraeus, 18 October 2012, 14:00-18:00, http://leo.hua.gr/palc2012/
- Comments wanted on draft UNESCO/UBC Vancouver Declaration on the Memory of the World at http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/all-news/news/setting_the_digital_agenda_for_the_memory_of_the_world/back/18618/
Consultancy & Services news
Knowledge Base News
- Extending the value of Europe's digital capital
- Guardian reports that GlaxoSmithKline to open door on data in bid to aid discovery of medicines
- SAA adds ISO 16363 to list of approved standards
- OAIS v2 available as full ISO standard
- New ODE reports published at http://www.ode-project.eu/ode-outputs on data citability and on drivers, barriers and opportunities
- "Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation" book published
- NISO/DCMI Webinar: Metadata for Managing Scientific Research Data 22 Aug
- Digital Curation Resource Guide released
- Presentations of EU hosted AAA workshop now online
- Assessing the Economic Impact of Digital Preservation and Data Curation
