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Second international Digital Preservation Challenge deadline is 31 July 2008


DigitalPreservationEurope is accepting entries for the Second international Digital Preservation Challenge until 31 July 2008 at 4pm GMT.

The Digital Preservation Challenge invites students to overcome the barriers hinder-ing access to five digital objects. Each set of objects is accompanied by a scenario based on a real-life digital preservation situation.

There are no wrong solutions, only interesting ones; we want to hear your ideas!

Important dates
Opening of the Challenge: 15 January 2008
Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2008 at 4pm GMT
Announcement of winners: E CDL 17 September 2008, Aarhus, Denmark

Awards
First Prize 3000 Euros
Second Prize 1500 Euros
Third Prize 500 Euros

To learn more about or to take part in the Digital Preservation Challenge, please visit digitalpreservationeurope.eu/challenge/.

Questions or comments should be sent to


Best wishes,
Professor Seamus Ross
Principal Director DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE)
HATII at the University of Glasgow
11 University Gardens
Glasgow, G12 8QQ
www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk
digitalpreservationeurope.eu

Professor Andreas Rauber
Director of DigitalPreservationEurope's Exchange Programme (DPEX)
Vienna University of Technology
Karlsplatz 13
A-1040 Vienna
www.tuwien.ac.at/tu_vienna/
digitalpreservationeurope.eu

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