DPE, PLANETS, and CASPAR Second Annual Conference:
Progress towards Addressing Digital Preservation Challenges
5-6 September 2007

Instituto dos Arquivos Nacionais / Torre do Tombo Lisbon, Portugal

DPE, PLANETS, and CASPAR are delighted to announce their second annual joint conference to introduce participants to a range of tools and resources and to explain how these fit into the evolving context of the international curation and preservation landscape. This event is being held in cooperation with the European Commission and the e-SciDR project* and will be held at the Instituto dos Arquivos Nacionais / Torre do Tombo in Lisbon, Portugal on the 5th and 6th of September, 2007.

DPE, PLANETS, and CASPAR extremely grateful to the Instituto dos Arquivos Nacionais and the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal for their assistance with the organisation of this conference.

Benefits of Attendance

Collaboration is a key objective for all of these projects and this conference will present participants with a forum for networking and bridge-building between these and other international initiatives. The event will provide an insight into leading-edge research and development activity from a number of EC-funded projects including CASPAR, PLANETS, and DPE.

Programme

View the full programme for this event (PDF format, 16 KB)

Presentations

Day One

Session 1: Setting the Scene

• Ongoing initiatives, EC aims and objectives
  Carlos Oliveira, European Commission, [PPT, 372KB]
• aDORe Repository Architecture: enabling preservation through interoperability
  Herbert van der Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, [PPT, 1.8MB]
• Directions in Digital Preservation
  Ross Harvey, Charles Sturt University, [PPT, 3.9MB]
• Introduction to Planets
  Helen Hockx-Yu, PLANETS, [PPT, 577KB]
• Introduction to CASPAR
  David Giaretta, CASPAR, [PPT, 6.2MB]

Session 1 Continued: Collaboration and Coordination

• Co-ordinating national efforts: Alliance for Permanent Access
  Luigi Fusco, CASPAR, [PPT, 593KB]
• Benchmarking Competence Centres
  Maurizio Lunghi, DPE, [PPT, 59KB]
• Proposed Digital Preservation Training Alliance (DPTA) - the need for coordination across Europe
  Joy Davidson, DCC, [PPT, 135KB]

Day Two

Session 2: Curation Challenges

• CASPAR: Demanding Data
  Esther Conway, CASPAR, [PPT, 2.3MB]
• Planets: User Perspectives and Needs
  Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, PLANETS, [PPT, 10.7MB]

Session 3: Preservation Models

• CASPAR: Curation Infrastructures: Conceptual Model
  David Giaretta, CASPAR, [PPT, 2.6MB]
• Planets: Planets Integrated Preservation Services
  Adam Farquhar, PLANETS, [PPT, 844KB]

Session 3 Continued: Solutions or Snakeoil

• The Planets Testbed
  Max Kaiser, PLANETS, [PPT, 373KB]
• The CASPAR Validation Methodologies
  Luigi Fusco, CASPAR, [PPT, 1.5MB]

Session 4: Key Components for Preservation Infrastructures from CASPAR

• CASPAR Architecture
  Luigi Briguglio, CASPAR, [PPT, 3.9MB]
• Representation Information
  David Giaretta, CASPAR, [PPT, 1.7MB]

Session 5: Planets Integrated Preservation Services

• The Interoperability Framework
  Ross King, PLANETS, [PPT, 254KB]
• Content Characterisation
  Adrian Brown, PLANETS, [PPT, 1.3MB]
• Preservation Planning
  Christoph Becker, PLANETS, [PPT, 3.2MB]
• Emulation
  Jeffrey van der Hoeven, PLANETS, [PDF, 1.9MB]

Information about the projects

For more information on DPE, PLANETS, and CASPAR please see:

• DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE)
  http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/
• Preservation and Long-term Access through NETworked Services (PLANETS)
  http://www.planets-project.eu/
• Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval (CASPAR)
  http://www.casparpreserves.eu/

Registration

Registration for this event has now closed.
Registration for PLANETS, DPE, and CASPAR Consortium members is 50 Euros. All other registrants will be charged 100.00 Euros. This fee includes all workshop materials, coffee and tea, dinner on day one, and lunch on day two.
Please be sure to indicate your membership on registration page.

Venue

Instituto dos Arquivos Nacionais / Torre do Tombo in Li
Alameda da Universidade,
Campo Grande,
1649-010
Lisboa
Portugal
http://www.iantt.pt/

Travel Options

Buses:
Cidade Universitária: 31-35-38-68
Campo Grande: 1-3-7-17B-33-36-36A-46A-47-56

Underground:
Cidade Universitária station

* The e-SciDR study (www.e-SciDR.eu) on e-Science Digital Repositories will be running a workshop on Tuesday, 4th September 2007 in Lisbon to review the study's draft findings and recommendations. Anybody interested in attending the workshop should contact alison@d-archiving.com. The e-SciDR study has been commissioned by the European Commission to formulate policy recommendations with regard to digital repositories and a European e-infrastructure to support them.