Subject: New Preservation Consortium: ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Access NETwork)
NINCH-ANNOUNCE (david@ninch.org)
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:16:04 -0500
Message-Id: <p05100303b83295955422@[192.100.21.22]> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:16:04 -0500 To: ninch-announce@ninch.org From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> Subject: New Preservation Consortium: ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Access NETwork)
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
December 4, 2001
ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation and Access NETwork)
European Consortium Formed to Further Digital Preservation
of Cultural Heritage & Scientific Material
http://www.erpanet.org
The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII)
of Glasgow University has just announced a bold new digital
preservation initiative: ERPANET (Electronic Resource Preservation
and Access NETwork).
This consortial initiative has been launched by four partners to
share information on key issues, best practice and skills development
in the digital preservation of cultural and scientific materials as
well as to stimulate new research and the incorporation of
preservation lessons into new generations of software.
David Green
===========
>What is ERPANET?
>
>The ERPANET Project (an EU funded collaboration between HATII at the
>University of Glasgow, Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv (Switzerland),
>Rijksarchiefdienst (Netherlands), and the University of Urbino (Italy))
>will make viable and visible information, best practice, and skills
>development in the area of digital preservation of cultural heritage and
>scientific objects.
>
>ERPANET will bring together memory organisations (museums, libraries
>and archives), ICT and software industry, research institutions,
>government organisations (including local ones), entertainment and
>creative industries, and commercial sectors (including for example
>pharmaceuticals, petro-chemical, and financial) to address the
>challenges posed by the widespread use of digital technologies
>including lack of awareness,fragmentation of knowledge and skills
>amongst the stakeholder communities about how to handle existing
>preservation problems, and how to plan effectively for the future
>and the need to identify and focus on core research/problem areas.
>
>The dominant feature of the ERPANET will be the provision of a
>virtual clearinghouse and knowledge-base on state-of-the-art
>developments in digital preservation, the transfer of that expertise
>among individuals and institutions, and the development of an online
>and physical community focused on preservation.
>
>ERPANET will run, initially, for 36 months from the 1st of November. The
>website, www.erpanet.org, is now available. 900,000 EUROS of this 1.2
>million EURO project comes form the European Commission.
>
> +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++
>
>ERPANET has the following specific objectives:
>
>1. To identify and raise awareness of sources of information about the
>preservation of digital objects across the broad spectrum of national and
>regional cultural and scientific heritage activity in Europe.
>
>2. To appraise and evaluate information sources and documented
>developments in digital preservation on behalf of the ERPANET user
>community; and to make available results of research, projects, and best
>practice.
>
>3. To provide an enquiry and advisory service on digital preservation
>issues, practice, technology and developments.
>
>4. To implement a suite of six thematic workshops to bring together
>experts from a range of disciplines to address key preservation issues
>(e.g.integrity and audit requirements, emulation and migration) and to
>initiated associated thematic discussion.
>
>5. To build during the EU-sponsored phase a suite of eight training
>seminars based on best practice, and to identify where and what further
>practitioner training and staff development is required.
>
>6. To develop a suite of tools, guidelines, templates for prototype
>instruments and best practice testbeds and case studies.
>
>7. To stimulate further research on digital preservation in key areas
>and encourage the development of standards where gaps and opportunities
>have been identified.
>
>8. To build ERPANET step-by-step into a self-sustaining initiative
>supported by those individuals and organisations which require access to
>digital preservation resources and information.
>
>9. To stimulate ICT companies and software developers to incorporate
>some of the preservation lessons into new generations of software.
>
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What is ERPANET?
The ERPANET Project (an EU funded collaboration between HATII at the
University of Glasgow, Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv (Switzerland),
Rijksarchiefdienst (Netherlands), and the University of Urbino (Italy))
will make viable and visible information, best practice, and skills
development in the area of digital preservation of cultural heritage and
scientific objects.
ERPANET will bring together memory organisations (museums, libraries and archives), ICT and software industry, research institutions, government organisations (including local ones), entertainment and creative industries, and commercial sectors (including for example pharmaceuticals, petro-chemical, and financial) to address the challenges posed by the widespread use of digital technologies including lack of awareness,fragmentation of knowledge and skills amongst the stakeholder communities about how to handle existing preservation problems, and how to plan effectively for the future and the need to identify and focus on core research/problem areas.
The dominant feature of the ERPANET will be the provision of a virtual clearinghouse and knowledge-base on state-of-the-art developments in digital preservation, the transfer of that expertise among individuals and institutions, and the development of an online and physical community focused on preservation.
ERPANET will run, initially, for 36 months from the 1st of November. The
website, www.erpanet.org, is now available. 900,000 EUROS of this 1.2
million EURO project comes form the European Commission.
+++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++
ERPANET has the following specific objectives:
1. To identify and raise awareness of sources of information about the
preservation of digital objects across the broad spectrum of national and
regional cultural and scientific heritage activity in Europe.
2. To appraise and evaluate information sources and documented
developments in digital preservation on behalf of the ERPANET user
community; and to make available results of research, projects, and best
practice.
3. To provide an enquiry and advisory service on digital preservation
issues, practice, technology and developments.
4. To implement a suite of six thematic workshops to bring together
experts from a range of disciplines to address key preservation issues
(e.g.integrity and audit requirements, emulation and migration) and to
initiated associated thematic discussion.
5. To build during the EU-sponsored phase a suite of eight training
seminars based on best practice, and to identify where and what further
practitioner training and staff development is required.
6. To develop a suite of tools, guidelines, templates for prototype
instruments and best practice testbeds and case studies.
7. To stimulate further research on digital preservation in key areas
and encourage the development of standards where gaps and opportunities
have been identified.
8. To build ERPANET step-by-step into a self-sustaining initiative
supported by those individuals and organisations which require access to
digital preservation resources and information.
9. To stimulate ICT companies and software developers to incorporate
some of the preservation lessons into new generations of software.
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