Digital Preservation Cluster (WP6)

The DELOS Association on Digital Libraries, Digital Curation Centre (DCC), DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), and the Feltrinelli Foundation are delighted to announce that we will be delivering our 4th Summer School on preservation in digital libraries from the 8th to the 14th of June 2008 in Tirrenia, Italy. This is the fourth in this series of summer schools with earlier ones held at Sofia Antipolis (2005), San Miniato (2006), and Pisa (2007).
Participation in the Summer School assists attendees in understanding how to address digital preservation and curation challenges within the context of digital libraries and data archives. In addition, the Summer School offers participants the opportunity to network with other researchers, international experts, and practitioners across disciplinary and national boundaries.
The Summer School will take place at the Grand Hotel Continental in Tirrenia, Italy during the week beginning 8 June 2008. We hope that the audience will be, as it has been in the past, mainly young researchers and professionals with an interest in the topic of digital curation and preservation. Internationally established lecturers will each lead one half-day session and most will be available through the week for further discussion. The learning outcomes for the course as a whole appear at the bottom of this document.

A detailed programme and registration forms can be viewed on the DELOS website at http://www.dpc.delos.info/ss08/

In conjunction with the Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei, DELOS NoE is delighted to announce that registration is now open for the Appraisal in the Digital World Conference which will take place in Rome on 15-16 November 2007. The conference will focus on emerging appraisal strategies, policy development and implementation, cutting-edge research, and practitioner experience and comprises a mix of peer-reviewed papers, invited presentations and keynote international speakers.

The Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei and Digital Preservation Cluster of the DELOS Network of Excellence in association with DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) and InterPARES announce a call for paper proposals for a Conference on Appraisal in the Digital World. The Conference will be held at the Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei (Rome, Italy) on the 15th and 16th of November 2007. Full details of the call are available at: http:// www.dpc.delos.info/rethinking_appraisal

The DELOS 2007 International Summer School on Digital Preservation and Digital Libraries successfully ran in PISA from the 3rd to the 9th of June 2007. The thirty-five attendees benefited from lectures by international experts, participation in practical breakout groups, and general discussion. The 2008 DELOS Summer School on Digital Preservation in Digital Libraries will run from the 8th to the 14th June 2008. It will take place in Italy. It will be co-sponsored by DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), PLANETS, and CASPAR. The DELOS SS08 Summer School website will be accessible from 1 October 2007 at http://www.dpc.delos.info/ss08 and registration for the Summer School will open on 1 December 2007.

The DELOS Preservation Cluster, which focuses on enhancing preservation methods, tools and functions in the context of digital libraries, released its 2006 Annual Report. This report describes the achievements of the Cluster and explains how they build on research completed in earlier years. The Cluster is a research incubator and much of its initial research has been further developed in subsequent projects.

This is the annual report for 2006 for the DELOS NoE Digital Preservation Cluster. [read more].

Throughout its four years the Digital Preservation Cluster of the DELOS Network of Excellence in Digital Libraries focused on enhancing preservation methods, tools and functions within the context of digital libraries. The Cluster had broad goals to enable partners to collaborate on innovative new research in digital preservation, to create synergy between those doing research in the area of digital preservation and digital libraries, to promote the adoption of preservation technologies in digital library development designs, to raise the profile of digital preservation issues within the Digital Library Community, and to increase our collaboration with other international researchers conducting research in the domains of digital libraries and preservation. This is the final annual report of the DELOS NoE Digital Preservation Cluster. [read more]

The DELOS Network of Excellence summer school programme on 'Digital Preservation in Digital Libraries: Realising Possibilities'. The DELOS Network of Excellence is a four-year project funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme to synergize and foster technology for the next-generation of Digital Libraries.

Participation in the School assists attendees in understanding how to address digital preservation challenges within the context of the digital library. In addition, the School provides a networking opportunity by creating the opportunity to meet with other researchers, international experts, and practitioners across disciplinary and national boundaries.

The school will take place at Santa Croce in Fossabanda (Pisa, Italy) during the week beginning 3 June 2007. We hope that the audience will be young researchers and professionals with an interest in the topic. Internationally established lecturers will each lead one half-day session and most will be available through the week for further discussion.

A detailed programme and registration forms can be viewed on the DELOS website at http://www.dpc.delos.info/ss07/

The DELOS Digital Preservation Cluster is pleased to announce that it will be presenting results from the work of the Cluster at an open seminar in Tallinn, Estonia. The seminar is being co-hosted by the Estonian Ministry of Culture and the Estonian Business Archives, and will be held at the National Library of Estonia.

This two day seminar will be hosted by the National Library of Estonia, Tallinn on the 4th and 5th September 2006 For more details and to register go to: http://www.dpc.delos.info/tallinn06/

The DELOS Network of Excellence is pleased to announce its summer school programme on 'Digital Preservation in Digital Libraries: Emerging Approaches'. The DELOS Network of Excellence is a four-year project funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme to synergize and foster technology for the next-generation of Digital Libraries (www.delos.info). The school is sponsored by:

• Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (Milan)
• Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale (Florence)

Participation in the School will assist participants in understanding how to address digital preservation challenges in the context of the digital library. The workshop will provide a networking opportunity for participants to meet with other students and researchers, international experts, and practitioners across disciplinary and national boundaries.

Programme & Registration

A detailed programme can be viewed on the DELOS website at http://www.dpc.delos.info/ss06/.

Seamus Ross, Maria Guercio, & Hans Hofman
Academic Directors of the DELOS 2006 Summer School

The first report from the DELOS Research Exchange Program is now available. This report summarizes on the scientific activity performed by the author during a visit to TU-Wien for the period ranging from 2nd November 2005 to 30th November 2005. The goal of this activity was to both test a generic preservation testbed framework in large and real-world environments with different preservation requirements, and to make the resulting generic preservation testbed framework and decision support modules more comprehensive.

Access the resources here

The DELOS Summer School in Digital Preservation for Digital Libraries will help participants in understanding how to address digital preservation challenges in the context of the digital library. This summer school is run by the DELOS Digital Preservation Cluster, which is one of seven European-wide digital library research collaborations integrated to create the DELOS Network of Excellence. DELOS is a four-year project funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme to synergize and foster technology for the next-generation of Digital Libraries (www.delos.info).

We are pleased to announce that the session timetable, abstracts, and lecturer overviews are now available for the DELOS Summer School 2005, running from the 5th to the 11th of June at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis in France.

The resources can be accessed by clicking here.