Future Access to the Scientific and Cultural Heritage – A shared Responsibility

1. Future Access to the Scientific and Cultural Heritage – A shared Responsibility Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard State and University Librarybcd@statsbiblioteket.dk WESS-ALA June 30 2008

2. Outline of talk • Staging the challenges data and their representation • Preservation focus • EU Projects: • Planets, CASPAR and DPE • National initiatives • Alliance for permanent access to scientific information • Summary

3. Data – From Bits to Interpretation Level 2 GOME Satellite instrument data From CASPAR

4. New Media • We establish collections to give future generations access to cultural heritage – but how will they access and use it? • The answer will influence preservation strategies and quality measures

5. Information is the important thing Information: Any type of knowledge that can be exchanged. In an exchange, it is represented by data. • What information? • Documents…… • Data……. • Original bits? • Look and feel? • Behaviour? • Performance? • Explicit/ Implicit Long Term is long enough to be concerned with the impacts of changing technologies, including support for new media and data formats, or with a changing user community. Long Term may extend indefinitely. Ensure that the information to be preserved is Independently Understandable to (and usable by) the Designated Community.

6. CASPAR and Planets • CASPAR – focus on developing framework and methodology for capturing relevant information as part of the process • Planets – focus on creating framework and methodology for common, existing objects

7. CASPAR Project See: www.casparpreserves.eu

8. Rep • Info CASPAR information flow architecture Virtualisation techniques

9. PLANETS – Preservation and Long-term access through Networked Services See: www.planets-project.eu

10. PreservationPlanning Services Project Architecture Reflects Problem Structure UserCommunity Preservation Action Services Test Bed:evaluation and validation services Dissemination Take-up & Training SupplierCommunity Characterisation Services Interoperability Framework

11. DPE • HATII, University of Glasgow • Technische Universität Wien • Statsbiblioteket • Nationaal Archief van Nederland • Národní knihovna Ceske republiky • Ministero Per I Beni E Le Attività Culturali • Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale • Vilnius University Faculty of Communication • FernUniversität Hagen (representing nestor) See: www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu

12. DPE visions • Create a coherent platform for proactive cooperation, collaboration, exchange and dissemination of research results and experience in the preservation of digital objects. • To increase prevalence of preservation services and their viability and accountability. • Improve awareness, skills, and available resources

13. www.wepreserve.eu

14. Summary • Focus on sharing the effort involved in Digital Preservation • Collaboration between different sectors • Forward looking: Digital Preservation should be an integrated part of information creation • Retrospective: Hard work – good progress Photo: Seamus Ross, DPE