[SCC_Active_Members] Background information for CHM SPG: digital preservation activities in Europe

[H.M. Gladney]

About ten months ago, as part of its FP6 support program, the EU funded a
multi-country project called PLANETS (Preservation and Long-term access
through Networked Services).    For PLANETS

The home website is at http://www.planets-project.eu.  October 2006 overview
presentation charts are available at
www.planets-project.eu/docs/presentations/Planets_iPres_2006_10_final.ppt.
A November project partners' meeting is reported at
www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/events/fp6-2006/dpe_caspar_planets_23nov06_
mtg.pdf. 

A fast way of achieving a good overall perspective of the state of the art
is to look at PLANETS on-line materials together with [U.S.] NDIIPP National
Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
publications.  For that, see http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/index.html.
My personal opinion is that the technical part of the NDIIPP work is sadly
weak.  I have recently published a critique.  For that, see
www.dlib.org/dlib/january07/gladney/01gladney.html.


Cheerio, Henry