DigitalPreservationEurope
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DPE (DigitalPreservationEurope)building on the earlier successful work of ERPANET, facilitates pooling of the complementary expertise that exists across the academic research, cultural, public administration and industry sectors in Europe. DPE fosters collaboration and synergies between many existing national initiatives across the European Research Area. DPE addresses the need to improve coordination, cooperation and consistency in current activities to secure effective preservation of digital materials. DPE's project partners lead work to:
- raise the profile of digital preservation;
- promote the ability of Member States acting together to add value to digital preservation activities across Europe;
- use cross-sectoral cooperation to avoid redundancy and duplication of effort;
- ensure auditable and certificated standards for digital preservation processes are selected and introduced;
- facilitate skills development through training packages;
- enable relevant research coordination and exchange;
- develop and promote a research agenda roadmap; and
- help both citizens and specialist professionals recognise the central role that digital preservation plays in their lives and work.
DPE's success will help to secure a shared knowledge base of the processes, synergy of activity, systems and techniques needed for the long-term management of digital material.
The partners include HATII at 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, and FernUniversität Hagen.
