2014
Digital Preservation Sustainability on the EU Policy Level
This workshop is organised jointly by APARSEN and SCAPE in connection with Digital Libraries 2014 (DL2014).
Objectives
The main objective of the workshop is to provide an overview of solutions to challenges within Digital Preservation Sustainability developed by current and past Digital Preservation research projects. The event brings together various EU projects/initiatives to present their solutions and approaches, and to find synergies between them. A special focus will lie on SCAPE (Scalable Preservation Environments), which will have its final project presentation at this event.
Description
This workshop will provide an overview of solutions to challenges within Digital Preservation Sustainability developed by current and past Digital Preservation research projects. The event brings together various EU projects/initiatives to present their solutions and approaches, and to find synergies between them. A special focus will lie on SCAPE (Scalable Preservation Environments), which will have its final project presentation at this event.
The workshop consists of two parts: 1) a panel discussion, and 2) a clinic / demo session.
In the opening panel session three experts from SCAPE, APARSEN and OPF will discuss the current status of Digital Preservation Sustainability on EU policy level. The aim of the panel discussion is to present, discuss, and evaluate main results of the projects and initiatives and how these will be sustained after the end of the projects. The attendees will have the opportunity to bring in their own questions related to Sustainability and Digital Preservation.
After the panel discussion the attendees can visit stalls run by invited Digital Preservation projects, where they can get information about the projects. Each project/initiative will run a stall and present their view on Digital Preservation sustainability in their particular field. In this ‘clinic’ the projects / initiatives will act as ‘doctors’, so the visiting audience can discuss their preservation issues and get advice from experts.
As part of the workshop SCAPE will make its final, overall presentation, where the attendees have the possibility to meet many of the developers. The project team will present tools and services developed since the start of the project in 2011. A special focus will lie on newly and further developed open source tools for scalable preservation actions; SCAPE’s scalable platform architecture; and its policy-based Planning and Watch solutions.
Programme
13:00-14:40 Panel session (moderator: Hildelies Balk, NL)
13:00-13:15 APARSEN (Dr. David Giaretta, UK)
13:15-13:30 SCAPE (Dr. Ross King, AT)
13:30-13:45 OPF (Ed Fay, UK)
13:45-14:30 Panel discussion
14:30-14:40 Wrap up and conclusions
14:40-14:50 Elevator pitches
14:50-15:00 Short break
15:00-17:00 Clinic session (all projects involved) – coffee during this session
Registration and costs
Click here to register for the workshop. It is not necessary to register for the DL2014 conference in order to attend this workshop. The workshop is free of charge.
Panelists
Dr. David Giaretta, Director of Alliance for Permanent Access (APA), http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/
David Giaretta gained his MA, MSc and a doctorate in Theoretical Physics from Oxford University. He has worked on a number of astronomical satellites, including the Hubble Space Telescope, ran a number of repositories of scientific data and has published numerous scientific articles. Dr. Giaretta chaired the panel which produced the original and led the update of OAIS Reference Model (ISO 14721). He led the production of the ISO standard (ISO 16363) for audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories, and the creation of the certification process. In 2003 Dr. Giaretta was awarded an MBE for services to Space Science and 2012 the Emmett Leahy Award. For more information please visit Dr. David Giaretta’s profile
Dr. Ross King, Project Coordinator for SCAPE, http://www.scape-project.eu/
Ross King received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University. He is a Senior Scientist and Thematic Coordinator for Next Generation Content Management Systems at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. Dr. King is Chairman of the Board of the Open Planets Foundation and the Coordinator of the FP7 digital preservation project SCAPE.
Ed Fay, Director of Open Planets Foundation (OPF), http://openplanetsfoundation.com/
Ed Fay is the Executive Director of the Open Planets Foundation. He has worked in digital cultural heritage for a decade developing approaches to digitisation, digital preservation, and online user experience. Prior to joining the Open Planets Foundation he led the introduction of a user-centred approach to digital library services at the London School of Economics and previously worked on several digitisation projects under JISC programmes in the UK. He holds an MA in Philosophy and an MSc in Information Science.
Moderator
Hildelies Balk, Head of the section European Projects for Research and Development, National Library of the Netherlands, and involved in both APARSEN and SCAPE
Dr. Hildelies Balk – Pennington de Jongh MPM is Head of Research at the National Library of the Netherlands (KB). With her team she is responsible for Research and Development in digitisation, digital preservation and digital humanities. She was Coordinator and Scientific Director of the FP7 IMPACT project for innovative tools in OCR and language technology, and has been responsible for many other European and international projects over the years (PLANETS, KEEP, SCAPE, APARSEN, SUCCEED, e-MOP). She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Planets Foundation and Chair of the Executive board of the IMPACT Centre of Competence in digitisation (http://www.digitisation.eu/). Hildelies is an experienced leader of workshops on strategy development, business modelling and digital library topics. She holds a PhD in the History of Art and a MSc in Public Management with a special interest in open innovation.
Projects in the clinic
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