Apologies for cross posting.
The first issue of the Planets Project Newsletter is now available on
the project website:
http://www.planets-project.eu/newsletters/
Each issue will detail recent project activities, describe the practical
preservation tools and services developed by the project, and highlight
a partner involved in Planets.
The Planets Project (Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked
Services) will deliver a sustainable framework to enable long-term
preservation of digital content, increasing Europe's ability to ensure
access in perpetuity to its digital information. Planets will deliver:
- Preservation Planning services that empower organisations to define,
evaluate, and execute preservation
- Methodologies, tools and services for the Preservation
Characterisation of digital objects
- Innovative solutions for Preservation Action tools which will
transform and emulate obsolete digital assets
- An Interoperability Framework to seamlessly integrate tools and
services in a distributed service network
- A Test-bed to provide a consistent and coherent evidence-base for the
objective evaluation of different protocols, tools, services and
complete preservation plans.
- A comprehensive Dissemination and Take-up program to ensure vendor
adoption and effective user training
The project will enable organisations to improve decision-making about
long term preservation, ensure long-term access to their valued digital
content and control the costs of preservation actions through increased
automation and scaleable infrastructure. The European Commission,
through the digital cultural heritage objective of its Information
Society Research programme, is co-funding PLANETS to the tune of EUR 9
million.
Sign up for notifications of further Planets Project news here:
http://www.planets-project.eu/rss/
Paul Wheatley
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Digital Preservation Manager
The British Library
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