PLANETS, International Projects
Digital media have become the dominant way that we create, shape, and exchange information. Unlike paper, however, we have very limited abilities to ensure that today’s digital information will be accessible in 10, 50, or 100 years. Unless we act now, we will lose access to the first decades of the digital era, and future generations will see a gaping hole in their cultural and scientific record.
The Planets project brings together European National Libraries and Archives, leading research institutions, and technology companies to address the challenge of preserving access to digital cultural and scientific knowledge.
The four year project is funded by the European Commission Information Science and Technolgies Framework Programe 6 Call 5 (FP6 Call 5).
To achieve these objectives, Planets will:
Develop Preservation Planning services that will empower organisations to define, evaluate, and execute preservation plans. The plans will reflect the organisation’s preservation policies, as well as the content in its collections, and the way the content is used.
Develop methodologies, tools and services for the Characterisation of digital objects in order to identify the best preservation plans.
Evaluate existing tools and services to support Preservation Actions and the development of innovative solutions based on the integration of existing tools and on the design and implementation of new tools where an unfulfilled requirement can be demonstrated
Establish a Preservation Test Bed to provide a consistent and coherent evidence-base for the objective evaluation of different preservation protocols, tools and services and for the validation of the effectiveness of preservation plans
Implement an Interoperability Framework, within which the deliverables from each of Planet’s sub-projects can be seamlessly integrated with each other in a distributed service network
Undertake Dissemination and Take-up Activities, to ensure the widest possible adoption of Planets deliverables among commercial tool and service providers as well as within the user community
View the website for PLANETS