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The PREMIS Editorial Committee decided at their last meeting to flesh out the current PREMIS "intellectual entities" entity and is inclined to treat it as a type of "preservation object" as was suggested in the Planets model. This is a simple and elegant solution which increases the scope of PREMIS but not the size of the PREMIS dictionary. It even eliminates the semantic unit "linkingIntellectualEntity". And it will make it possible to directly associate agents and events with an intellectual entity.

Planets was a great success, and I'm proud to have been a part of it. We've done a lot of great work, written a lot of documents, created some pretty decent software, and made as much of it as widely available as we possibly can. We'll be publishing the documentation through this site, and the code is up on SourceForge. We're currently setting up the development and issue-tracking environment, and then we can get down to the real business and work out what we want to build with all we've learned...

The Open Planets Foundation (OPF) will host a round-table discussion at iPres 2010. It will take place on Wednesday 22 September at 17:30 – 19.00 at the Austrian National Library.

Digital preservation practitioners are invited to join us to:

Planets is delighted to announce that Bram van der Werf has been appointed as Executive Director of the Open Planets Foundation. Bram will take up his appointment on 1st June 2010. 

• Unlike parchment and paper, digital data has a life span of years not millennia 
• 3 billion euros worth of vital data is already being lost every year in the EU alone
• New international consortium known as the Open Planets Foundation (OPF) formed to tackle preservation challenge

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