This presentation was delivered during the joint DPE/Planets/CAPAR/nestor training event, ‘The Preservation challenge: basic concepts and practical applications’ (Barcelona, March 2009).

This presentation was delivered during the joint DPE/Planets/CAPAR/nestor training event, ‘The Preservation challenge: basic concepts and practical applications’ (Barcelona, March 2009). It is aimed at presenting the fundamental problems related to the preservation of intellectual property material, and how some of these problems have been addressed in CASPAR.The objective is to present CASPAR approach to the problem of identifying and preserving all the existing rights related to a digital work.

This presentation was delivered during the joint DPE/Planets/CAPAR/nestor training event, ‘The Preservation challenge: basic concepts and practical applications’ (Barcelona, March 2009). It explains how CASPAR aims to solve, from the technical point of view, the problem of accessibility and intelligibility of digital data in the long term.CASPAR approach is presented as an implementation of the OAIS functional model, introducing CASPAR Key Components, i.e. the main building blocks which constitute CASPAR architecture, and giving an overview of their functionalities, their usage and their role in the digital preservation workflow. The objective is to clarify how the digital preservation workflow is realised within CASPAR architecture.

The presentation was given at the Delos Summer School (Tirrenia, June 2008). It illustrates the research activity related to the CASPAR project with specific reference to the authenticity and the need and the possibility to ensure continuity among international projects and their results. The first part is dedicated to define the concepts and the critical issues by taking into account the outputs of InterPARES and the basic framework of OAIS. Both the aspects have been included in the position paper on authenticity defined within the CASPAR project. The second part concerns the effort (under development as part of the Caspar framework for digital preservation) to build management tools fo ensure the verification and documentation of the digital objects authenticity.

It gives an overview of the activity related with CASPAR project with specific reference to the authenticity and the need and the possibility to ensure continuity among international projects and their results.