Ankara: Long Term Preservation Workshop

Turkey

7-8 July 2011 - INDICATE Workshops

Venue
National Library of Ankara
Milli Kütüphane Başkanlığı Bahçelievler Son Durak 06490 Ankara (MAP)

Scope of the workshop:

  • To present best practice examples of digital preservation
  • To discuss how e-Infrastructures can be used to solve digital preservation problems
  • To analyse the resources which e-Infrastructures offer, and how they can be deployed to deal with digital preservation

Background information

This event is part of the INDICATE project, which is a coordination action supported by the European Commission in the frame of the FP7-Capacities programme, e-infrastructure thematic area.

The INDICATE project started on the 1st of September 2010 and will last 24 months until September 2012.
More detailed information are available online at the project’s website:
www.indicate-project.eu

The e-infrastructures enabled digital preservation is considered as a core topic in the work program of the INDICATE project and for this reason a specific workshop has been planned.
The workshop is the follow up of a survey conducted in the countries participating to the project, based on a questionnaire that has been aswered by important institutions from Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, Egypt and Turkey. The answers collected during the survey are accessible via the project’s website.
The proceedings of this workshop will be produced as deliverable D3.3 Workshop Proceedings – Digital Preservation of the INDICATE project. Deliverable D3.3 is expected to be released to the European Commission at month 18 of the project. Deliverable D3.3 is planned to be a public document and it will be accessible through the INDICATE project website at www.indicate-project.eu

The results of the workshop will be analysed and re-elaborated by the INDICATE partners and will constitute the basis of the deliverable D5.1 Case Study Report – Long Term Preservation. The deliverable will describe which actions can be taken in a feasible way to initiate the coordination of a European eco-system of data repositories for the long term preservation of the digital cultural resources. The deliverable D5.1 is expected to be released to the European Commission at month 12 of the project. The deliverable D5.2 is planned to be a public document and it will be accessible through the INDICATE project website at www.indicate-project.eu

Presentations