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***Apologies for cross-posting*** ***Deadline for submissions extended*** Dear Colleagues, PLANETS needs your help to ensure that we develop the most effective environment for experimentation in digital preservation as is possible. Such environments, commonly known as testbeds, are frequently used in engineering and provide a controlled space in which experiments can be conducted, controlled, documented, validated, and rerun. The EU co-funded PLANETS project brings together key national libraries and national archives, as well as leading research institutes and technology vendors, in order to deliver a sustainable framework that will enable long-term preservation of digital content, increasing Europe's ability to ensure long-term access to its cultural and scientific heritage. For more information about PLANETS see http://www.planets-project.eu/ Within the PLANETS project, the Testbed subproject aims to * provide an infrastructure for testing and evaluating preservation action (e.g. migration, emulation) and characterisation tools and services, and to assist the validation of the effectiveness of different digital preservation plans; * provide an infrastructure for experimentation for the whole preservation community and thereby spur the development in the field of digital preservation; * facilitate organisations to validate their digital preservation plans against the PLANETS service infrastructure. The project team wishes to understand the kinds of uses that the research and practitioner community might make of the PLANETS Testbed so that we can ensure that these uses are reflected in its design and implementation. If you feel that you could contribute to helping us shape the design of the PLANETS Digital Preservation Testbed please complete the brief questionnaire at http://www.planets-project.eu/testbed-questionnaire/ We hope that the PLANETS Testbed will be available for use by the preservation community by the Autumn of 2007. We will keep the questionnaire open until the 15th of December 2006. Yours sincerely Seamus Ross, HATII - University of Glasgow Ross King, Austrian Research Centers, Vienna Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library, Vienna* *On behalf of the PLANETS Testbed Subproject ============================================================ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.4/480 - Release Date: 17/10/2006 ************************************************** For mcg information and to manage your subscription to the list, visit the website at http://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk **************************************************