Members

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology

 The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology is an Austrian research institute with a European format and focuses on the key infrastructure issues of the future. The AIT, which comprises five independent and performance-driven departments (Energy, Mobility, Health & Environment, Safety & Security and Foresight & Policy Development), works in close collaboration with industry and customers from public institutions, striving to increase their added value through innovation and new technologies.

Charter Member

The Austrian National Library

The Austrian National Library (ONB) is the main scientific library of the Republic of Austria. With a history dating back to the 14th century, the Austrian National Library’s collections contain a significant part of the world’s cultural heritage. The library offers access to and professionally competent advice on its own holdings and links to international digital resources and digital library services. The Austrian National Library is required by media law to receive a copy of every publication appearing in Austria.

Charter Member

The British Library

The British Library (BL) co-ordinated the Planets project and currently hosts the Open Planets Foundation. As the national library of the United Kingdom, the BL provides world class information services to the academic, business, research and scientific communities and offers unparalleled access to the world's largest and most comprehensive research collection.

Charter Member

The Danish National Archives

The Danish National Archives holds the records of the central bodies of the Danish government such as ministries and agencies as well as digital records for a number of municipalities and regions. Since the mid 1970s the National Archives has received transfers of digital records and was among the first national archives in the world to allow fully digital record keeping.

Charter Member

The Royal Library, Denmark

The Royal Library, Denmark is both a national library with an obligation to preserve Denmark’s digital cultural heritage, and a university library which serves the University of Copenhagen. This means the Royal Library both collects and preserves heritage data and is a legal deposit library for material published on the internet together with The State and University Library, Aarhus. This includes e-books and material from institutional repositories for Danish universities.

Charter Member

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.

Charter Member

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.Goportis is the expert partner for the supply of electronic and printed full-text documents, licences, non-textual materials, digital preservation and Open Access.

Charter Member

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.

Charter Member

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.

Charter Member

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.

Charter Member

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.

Charter Member

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.

Charter Member

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.

Charter Member

International Institute of Social History

The International Institute of Social History (IISH) 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.

Charter Member

Vienna University of Technology

 Vienna University of Technology Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems addresses the broad spectrum of tools and methods which are relevant in the life cycle of software and information systems, beginning from abstract models for problem analysis to the implementation of software products. It has expertise among its staff of 63, in Data Engineering, Information & Knowledge Engineering, Process Engineering, Software Engineering and Web Engineering.

Affiliate Member

The University of Southampton

The University of Southampton is part of the Russell Group of leading UK Universities. Membership of the OPF demonstrates a continued commitment to the importance of digital preservation to the work of the University; through software development, research activity and the adoption of the best technology. The aim is to improve university wide provision and through collaboration contribute to the development and enhancement of shared tools and services.

Affiliate Member

Cambridge University Library

Cambridge University Library is the main library of the University of Cambridge.  Founded some time before 1416, it is one of the world's great research libraries and one of five legal deposit libraries for the United Kingdom and Ireland.  The Library is committed to preserving digital content as well as its physical collections and in addition to its affiliate membership with the Open Planets Foundation, Cambridge University Library is a full member of the Digital Preservation Coalition.

Affiliate Member