CASPAR (Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval)

CASPAR is an EU FP6 Integrated Project co-funded by the "Cultural heritage and technology enhanced learning" Unit. CASPAR’s main objectives are to: Implement, extend, and validate the OAIS reference model and design virtualisation services supporting long term digital resource preservation, despite changes in the underlying computing (hardware and software) and storage systems. The project also aims to raise awareness about the critical importance of digital preservation among the relevant user communities and to facilitate the emergence of a more diverse offer of systems and services for preservation of digital resources.

Collaboration:

D4SCIENCE intends to continue with the cooperation activities started during the DILIGENT project, D4Science predecessor. CASPAR is building a complete framework to allow the preservation not only of the data but also of the associated knowledge. The features of a distributed Virtual Research Environment could represent an important added value to improve the CASPAR system and in the future the hypothesis of an integration of the services released by D4Science will be taken into consideration by the CASPAR team. Though CASPAR is going to end in 2009, important deliveries are going to be provided already by the end of 2008. Those achievements include both software releases and advances in the digital preservation research area.

Project web site:

http://www.casparpreserves.eu/

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