EU-funded Research onDigital Preservation

Javier Hernández-RosEuropean Commission, Information Society and Media

Unit "Cultural Heritage and Technology Enhanced Learning“

APA 2011 Conference, 8-9 Nov., London

EU policy actions related to DP

"i2010 Digital Libraries" initiative (2005)- strategy for digitisation, online accessibility and digital

preservation of Europe's collective memory

Commission Recommendation on Digitisation and Online Accessibility of Cultural Material and Digital Preservation (2006 – updated 27.10.11)

- national strategies and quantitative and qualitative targets, including financial planning

- improved conditions for digital preservation

EU policy actions

Member States' Expert Group on Digitisation and Digital Preservation (2007)

- exchange of good practices, monitoring progress in EU Member States

Communication from the Commission: 'Scientific Information in the Digital Age: Access, Dissemination and Preservation' (2007)

- digital repositories for science and research- will be followed (first half 2012) by a

recommendation for improving access to, management of and preservation of scientific publications and data

EU policy actions"The New Renaissance", report of

Commission's Reflection Group ("Comité des Sages") on digitisation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation (January 2011)

- set of recommendations for the digitisation, online accessibility and preservation of Europe's cultural heritage in the digital age

Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation (October 2011)

- asking Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve private actors in digitising cultural material and making it available through Europeana

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Pioneer Work under FP6

• Awareness rising activities• Establishment of common problem

definitions, terminology and conceptsMemory institutions as drivers

• Building up a solid body of expertise in the European research community– influence on international standardisation

initiatives (e.g. PREMIS, OAIS, TRAC).

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Recent and ongoing work

• Fundamental research– moved beyond the preservation of simple

documents and data towards interactive objects, embedded objects, ontologies and ephemeral data

– e. g. LiWA (Web archiving), PLANETS (validation of objects according to format specifications and of preservation actions)

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Recent and ongoing work

• Applied research & development– addressing needs of user communities holding

large collections of complex digital objects, e.g. audiovisual archives (PrestoPRIME)

– improving workflows through automation, decision support and scalability (e.g. SCAPE, ARCOMEM, ENSURE)

– broad range of use cases• industry and services sector: aerospace,

health care, finance• science: astronomy, genomics• governmental and broadcasters' archives• libraries and web archives

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Recent and ongoing work

• Networking– broadening of the digital preservation

community– increasing participation of industry players as

solution providers or problem owners (e.g. APARSEN, SHAMAN, TIMBUS)

– Foundations• Open Planets Foundation: provides practical

solutions and expertise, building on R&D outputs of PLANETS

• competence centre for preservation of digital audiovisual material: PrestoCentre

Significant Institutions in Digital Preservation Projects

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Targeted Stakeholders of Digital Preservation Projects

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ICT Programme: Funding of Digital Preservation Research

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FP768.4 M€

FP624.9 M€

FP50.9 M€

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Some achievements ofEU-funded research

• methods and tools for preservation planning: PLANETS

• formal models to characterise digital objects: DigitalPreservationEurope

• OIAS-based technology platform, tested on various types of content: CASPAR

• emulators for obsolete media (early computer games): KEEP

• advanced tools for web archiving: LiWA• framework for digital preservation in the context

of memory institutions: SHAMAN

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New Research:Next Call for proposals

ICT Call 9 – 18 January until 17 April 2012

Budget for objective "Digital Preservation"– € 30 million

Digital Preservation in the ICT Work Programme 2011-2012

Target Outcomes

a) More reliable and secure preservation technologies and methods(funding scheme: STREP)

b) Technologies and systems for intelligent management of preservation (IP)

c) Interdisciplinary research networks (NoE)

d) Promotion schemes for the uptake of digital preservation research outcomes (CSA)

The Future: vision of digital preservation landscape

Now Near future Long termpreservation of

files / datapreservation of complex material: heterogeneous

and evolving content (web), applications, processes…

preservation of knowledge and user

experiences

innovative technologies

established technologies: scaling to high volumes and

varied material, validated with end users, standards...

transparent techno-logies: preservation embedded in digital

objects & their life-cycle

digital holdings of memory institutions

digital assets ofall types of organisations(administrations, industry,

businesses, service sector)

the digital memory of the society and of

individuals

The New EU Financial Framework 2014- 2020

• Horizon 2020 – Commission proposes a significant increase to Research and Innovation funding

• Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) - cross-border infrastructures in energy, transport and ICT to strengthen the internal market

Horizon 2020 in the Multiannual Financial Framework

• Multiannual Financial Framework (2014-2020) Commission proposal adopted on 29 June 2011

• Proposed amount for Horizon 2020: €80 billion in constant 2011 prices (~€90 billion in current prices)

• 46% increase compared to current period (2007-2013)• Research and innovation increases to 8.5% of overall EU

budget• For decision by European Council, European Parliament

• Horizon 2020 – Objectives and structure

Creating Industrial Leadership and Com- petitive Frameworks

Excellence in the Science Base

Shared objectives and principles

Common rules and funding schemes

Tackling Societal Challenges

Key features

• Clear set of objectives based on Europe 2020 and Innovation Union

• Integrating research and innovation in a seamless programme

• Focus on overall policy priorities – using a challenge based approach

• Programme structured by objectives • Common toolkit of funding schemes

Connecting Europe Facility CEF2014-2020

• Commission proposal to promote the completion of:– Energy priority corridors €9.1 billion– Transport core network €21.7 billion– Broadband and key digital services

€9.2 billion• High speed Internet• 9 European Digital Infrastructures

Connecting Europe Facility CEF:

Key digital services • Access to digital resources of European

heritage:– make available large collections of

European cultural resources in digital form – Foster their re-use by third parties

• Core platform: Europeana • Generic services

– Includes competence centres on digitisation and preservation of digital cultural heritage

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• DigiCult web sitehttp://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/telearn-digicult/digicult_en.html

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