*** Apologies for cross-posting **** We are happy to inform you that the Planets Testbed (Public Beta) has been released for public access. The newly released Testbed (Public Beta) provides a scientifically sound environment for experiments on different methods in digital long-term preservation. Within Testbed v1.1 migration, emulation and other experiments may be executed in an intuitively comprehensible 6-step workflow on annotated data (Corpus) or own files. We cordially invite you to join for usage! For login information (or any question on the Testbed), please contact our Helpdesk: [log in to unmask] To get more information on the Planets Testbed, have a look at http://testbed.planets-project.eu/testbed/ The Planets Testbed is a web application for experimenting on the performance and behaviour of tools and digital objects in digital preservation. It offers a controlled hardware & software environment and provides structured processes for the arrangement and evaluation of preservation experiments. The Planets Project is funded under the IS&T FP6 Programme. To comment or ask a question about Planets, please e-mail us at: [log in to unmask] For any technical queries re JISC please email [log in to unmask] For any content based queries, please email [log in to unmask]