《Towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence in the APARSEN project》.pdfVIP

Towards a Virtual Centre of Excellence in the APARSEN project Chiara Cirinnà Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale 2nd LIBER international workshop on digital preservation “Partnerships in curating European digital resources” - Florence, Italy 7-8 May 2012 Overview European NoE: APARSEN Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe Network 01/01/2011 - 31/12/2014 EU funding: 6.8 M€ over 4 years Overview 33 partners from • Research laboratories • National libraries • Software vendors • Universities • Manufacturers • Professional associations • No profit memberships Approach Reinforcing excellence in Europe by structuring the research capacity in fragmented research disciplines: scientific and research data, industry, cultural heritage The project aims to bring together an extremely diverse set of practitioner organisations and researchers to: • provide coherence, cohesion and continuity to research into barriers to the long-term accessibility and usability of digital information and data • exploit our diversity by building a long-lived Virtual Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation. Overview Approach Approach • no-one has all the answers, and no-one can even see all the questions • despite that, we all tend to defend our own area of work in which we have invested effort • there are many solutions in search of a problem Common vision • Competence and motivation • Type of digitally encoded information • Archives • Types of users • Comparison over research areas for digital