APARSEN Network of Excellence

1. APARSEN Network of Excellence David Giaretta

2. VISION Tools Information about users and practices Digital Preservation activities Infrastructure ISO : Audit and Certification Standards plus organisation Relationship to related work and community practices ISO standard: OAIS update ISO standard: OAIS

3. Building on... • OAIS Reference Model • CASPAR • PLANETS • DPE • SHAMAN • PARSE.Insight • LOTAR • Alliance for Permanent Access • Audit & Certification standard • Industrial Vendors } WePreserve

4. Why is APARSEN as it is? (1) • Digital preservation has been dominated by consideration of documents and images • Need to deal with much more complex things • Projects like CASPAR, SHAMAN have provided evidence that we know how to approach this with intellectual rigor • Research needed for specifics • Things are not cleanly split – RECURSION is key concept • PARSE.Insight has provided a great deal of evidence about what people are concerned about • Audit & certification will be in place in the next year or so • Vision for 2020 and 2030 developed

5. Why is APARSEN as it is? (2) • E-Infrastructures including preservation will be put in place over the next few years • Needs research in place • The Alliance for Permanent Access (APA) is up and running – it can provide the core of the VCoE • However we need a wider consortium – and we need to grow the APA • These are complementary aims • Need key players who already do, or need, digital preservation • Other NoE have provided lessons for us • Despite clear ideas from CASPAR etc, we need to get buy in from the partners for the JPA • Need to provide the opportunity for reaching a common vision • Need to then go beyond the partners • Process of widening training and consolidation

7. Rationale and scope • Funding for an NoE in Call 6 is targeted at reinforcing excellence in Europe by structuring the research capacity in those research disciplines which remain fragmented and would significantly benefit from consolidation. Regarding the research fields under this call (digital preservation, digital libraries, cultural heritage) previously funded work in form of Networks of Excellence (i.e. DELOS and EPOCH) should be taken into account. It is not excluded to present proposals for further integration of research capacity in digital libraries or cultural heritage. However, this should be well justified in terms of the need to overcome continuing and harmful fragmentation and not duplicate the essence of the work already done. The scale of the digital preservation challenge, both in quantity and complexity, goes beyond the capacity of single institutions or sectors. To tackle this challenge adequately requires concerted and orchestrated efforts, critical mass, as well as synergies of ideas, technology solutions and practices – and this across disciplines, organisations and across national borders. Stakeholders within and beyond the existing digital preservation community need to be mobilised. Consequently, there could be scope for a Network of Excellence in structuring digital preservation research for the future.

8. .... • Proposals should argue convincingly that the fragmentation of current research effort is hindering research and progress in the area, demonstrate clearly that they bring together existing European excellence in the different research fields involved, and be clear about the potential for sustainable commitments between the research organisations post-project, including the potential for influence on and leverage of national research activities and funding.

9. Approach • use cross-sectoral cooperation to overcome fragmentation of the research field and to avoid redundancy and duplication of effort; • support sustainable integration of research resources and capacities (researchers, services, teams institutions, organisations); • NoEs are expected to implement a Joint Programme of Activities that requires a formal commitment of the participating organisations.

10. Where is Digital Preservation research done? • Universities? • Libraries • Archives? • Scientific Research Laboratories? • Manufacturers? • Vendors?

11. 31 Partners from • Research laboratories • National libraries • Manufacturers • Software vendors

12. Project profile & origins Users E-Infrastructures GENESI-DR PARSE.Insight Universities & Research Institutes APARSEN Network of Excellence HLEG Sci data e-Infr DPC, nestor, STM, LIBER Vendors:IBM/MicrosoftExLibris, Tessella National libraries Virtual Centre of Excellence APA Big science: CERN/MPI/HA/STFC ESA LTDP Industrial:Airbus, Philips, SMEs Innovators Research (Digital Preservation) CASPAR SHAMAN PLANETS HLEG Digital Library 12

13. Vision is linked into all research WPs Research integration Research subset Research subset Research subset Research subset Research subset Research subset Internal workshops Common tools & env Staff exchanges Formal qualifications Vision Training & awareness Integration Integrated research, best practice, services, tools Spread Excellence Refine and integrate ideas European Organisations and researchers Embed research Research USA Asia Australisia etc Internal sharing ideas

14. APARSEN Technical 2000 Spreading excellence 4000 Management 5000 Integration 1000 Economic/Legal 3000 3100: Digital Rights & access management 5100: Financial management 2100: Preservation Services 4100: External W/S & symposia 1100: Common Vision 2200: Identifiers & citabillity 4200: Formal qualifications 1200: Staff and experience exchange 3200: Cost /benefit data collection and modelling 5200: Technical co-ord. 2300: Storage solutions 4300: Training courses 1300: Common standards 5300: Evaluate impact of the Network of Excellence 3300: Peer Review & 3rd party Certification 2400: Authenticity & Provenance 4400: Awareness raising 1400: Common testing environments 3400: Brokerage services 2500: Interoperability & intelligibility 4500: Liaison with other stakeholders 3500: Data policies and governance 2600: Annotation, Reputation & data quality 1500: Internal W/S & symposia 4600: International liaison 2700: Scalability 3600: Business cases 1600: Common tools, software repository and market place JPA Spreading excellence JPA Research JPA Integration

17. Implications for the APA • Great deal of activity on APA website and Forum • Fora and Virtual meetings open to APA members • APA is the core of the Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCoE) • APA should grow into being the VCoE • Common vision of digital preservation research • Common testing environment • Audit and Certification – European Framework and ISO 16363