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International Institute of Social History

The International Institute of Social History (IISG) is the world's largest documentation and research centre in the field of social history. It is one of the eighteen research institutes that fall under the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Since its foundation in 1935, the institute has dedicated itself to the collection, preservation and accessibility of the heritage of social movements worldwide. The IISH offers a safe repository for the threatened cultural heritage of the labour movement and other emancipatory groups and currents worldwide.

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Bibliotheque nationale de France

The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) is one of the largest research and public libraries in the world collecting and conserving the national heritage entrusted to its care, in whatever form, for the use of all researchers, students and professionals. Today its patrimonial collections encompass all areas of culture and knowledge in a great variety of languages and illustrate the library’s encyclopaedic nature through all kinds of materials.

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The National Library of Wales

The National Library of Wales, 100 years old in 2007, is one of the oldest and most important of the national institutions in Wales. It is Wales’s pre-eminent library and archive. It is a legal deposit library and holds a wide range of media types, including books, periodicals and newspapers, archives and manuscripts, maps, pictures and photographs, sound and moving images and electronic material. Every year, it welcomes over 90,000 visitors to its building in Aberystwyth and receives over 1.4 million virtual visits.

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The National Library of The Netherlands

The National Library of The Netherlands (KB) fosters the national infrastructure for scientific information and plays an important role in the permanent access to digital information at an international level. The e-Depot, the world’s first digital archiving system for academic publications, now contains more than 15 million articles (15 TB). The KB aims to scale up the e-Depot in the next years to contain 700 TB by 2013.

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The National Archives of The Netherlands

The National Archives of The Netherlands has been involved in digital preservation since the beginning of the 1990s. It has a legal duty to provide access to and preservation of archival records through time, both paper and digital. It has longstanding experience managing and preserving paper records. It provides access to government records and other historical sources to a broad audience, also by using modern channels such as the world wide web.

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Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research's involvement in Planets has been focused on identifying strategies for using Office Open XML standards for archiving and preservation of digital content. The Microsoft Office Open XML (Office OpenXML) formats represent a significant advance in representing information contained in textual documents, spreadsheets, and multimedia presentations in an open format, based on the XML standard.

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Joint Information Systems Committee

Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) inspires UK colleges and universities in the innovative use of digital technologies. We invest heavily in research and development, offering over 18 million users access to quality assured resources through our secure network. We provide expert advice, help to save money through national content license agreements and work with colleges and universities to realise the potential of their existing technologies. Everything we do has one aim – to maintain the UK’s position as a global leader in education.

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Goportis

Goportis is the name of the Leibniz Library Network for Research Information. The three libraries behind this partnership are: the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) in Hannover, the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED) in Cologne/Bonn and the German National Library of Economics (ZBW) in Kiel/Hamburg.

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The State and University Library, Denmark

The State and University Library, Denmark (SB) is an institution of the Danish Ministry of Culture. It functions as: National Library The SB is a legal deposit library. It receives a copy of all Danish publications, whether in printed or in digital form. It houses the national newspaper collection, the national media archive and is the national loan centre for public libraries and small special libraries.

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