Signed data cannot be changed if electronic signatures are to be kept valid. So procedures are necessary to convert signed documents in a way which preserves their evidentiary weight and other legally essential characteristics - legally secure transformations are needed. Based on use cases of the application domains "public administration", "health care", and "notaries" the project will analyze problems as well as legal and technical requirements, develop proposals for the future design of pertinent law, develop both concepts and concrete solutions for the practice, implement prototypes,
evaluate prototypes and findings by means of tests and a simulation study. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour.

This Coordination Action supports the development and consolidation of expertise in the research area multilingual information access and disseminates this know-how to the application communities in the digital libraries field.

For many, the web has become the information source of first resort. From online journals and scholarly material to news, travel and sport, the web provides unlimited and immediate access to enormous resources.

Despite our apparent dependence on this medium, however, very little attention has been paid to the long-term preservation of websites. Indeed, with the life of an average website estimated to be around 44 days (about the same lifespan as a housefly) there is a danger that invaluable scholarly, cultural and scientific resources will be lost to future generations.

To address this problem, a consortium of six leading UK institutions got together in 2004 to explore the best way to collect and preserve web materials.

This project addresses access to deep underwater archaeological sites, both for professionals and the general public. It will define best practices and procedures and design software tools for collecting and storing data in an efficient, economic and safe way and explore various techniques of data acquisition during the survey of wrecks using autonomous underwater and remotely operated vehicles.

WebArchiv is a digital archive of Czech web resources which are collected with the aim of their long-term preservation. The National Library of the Czech Republic, in cooperation with Moravian Library and Institute of Computer Science of Masaryk University, has been organizing preservation of these documents since 2000. Tools developed by the Internet Archive, and the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) respectively are used for web archiving. WebArchiv is a member of IIPC from 2007.

The creation of content in digital and electronic cinema applications is hampered by technical
hurdles, especially as high demands on quality lead to a huge amount of source material data
and previous data-flow concepts cannot handle this in an adequate manner. These bottlenecks
during acquisition, editing, archiving and conversion of digital movies are responsible for
large delays between the film shoot and the presentation to the market. New approaches, like
layered scheme compression algorithms (e.g., JPEG2000), open up solutions for efficient
access and processing of the movie data, and different layers within a compressed image file
allow easy access to various resolutions and qualities. The goal of the WorldScreen project
was to address these problems by considering preservation of the highest quality possible
through the use of these new approaches. To achieve this goal several international companies
worked together.