DigitalPreservationEurope(DPE), building on the earlier successful work of ERPANET, facilitates pooling of the complementary expertise that exists across the academic research, cultural, public administration and industry sectors in Europe.
DPE fosters collaboration and synergies between many existing national and international initiatives across the European Research Area.
DPE addresses the need to improve coordination, cooperation and consistency in current activities to secure effective preservation of digital materials. DPE's success will help to secure a shared knowledge base of the processes, synergy of activity, systems and techniques needed for the long-term management of digital material.
Latest News:
Second DPE Challenge Winner
Posted on 20th November 2008
Alex Mason (Durham University, UK) was able to solve all the provided challenges showing great skills in data archealogy. The proposed digital preservation solutions were outstanding and therefore he was awarded the first prize of this digital preservation challenge. Read more about the Second Challenge Scenarios
New DigitalPreservationEurope Exchange (DPEX) report available!
Posted on 20th November 2008
New report from Arian Rajh (Croatia) is available. It describes benefits of his exchange stay in Portugal. Read the report here
Database Preservation: The international Challenge and the Swiss Solution
Posted on 11th November 2008
A briefing paper by Amir Bernstein, Swiss Federal Archives published.
Most administrative records are stored in databases. Today’s challenge is preserving the information and making it accessible for years to come, ensuring knowledge-transfer as well as administrative sustainability. Lack of standardization has hitherto rendered the task of archiving database content highly complex. The Swiss Federal Archives have developed a new XML based format which permits long-term preservation of the relational databases content. The Software-Independent Archiving of Relational Databases (short: SIARD) offers a unique solution for preserving data content, metadata as well as the relations in an ISO conform format. see the paper in pdf
DPE Newsletter Issue 3
Posted on 10th November 2008
DPE are proud to release the third annual DPE newsletter. This newsletter provides a clear overview of our activities an achievements of the last twelve months and areas in which individuals can become involved. This newsletter also includes information on four new projects in the Digital Preservation field, SHAMAN, Protage, LiWA and TextGrid. Read the newsletter
DPE Community on Facebook!
Posted on 6th November 2008
Join the DPE Community also on Facebook, and help us to promote digital preservation issues in the web 2.0 environment.
