New Memorandum strengthens global collaboration in digital preservation
The Open Planets Foundation (OPF) and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) are delighted to announce a new memorandum of understanding that strengthens their ongoing collaboration to tackle digital preservation challenges.
Signed by OPF Executive Director, Ed Fay, and DPC Executive Director, William Kilbride, at the DPC offices in Glasgow, the MoU commits both two organisations to share knowledge and expertise, deliver joint events, and to support the development
Preservation Health Check: Monitoring Threats to Digital Repository Content
OCLC have published a report presenting the preliminary findings of its Phase 1 investigation of preservation monitoring as part of the Preservation Health Check (PHC) Project.
In collaboration with the Open Planets Foundation and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the project aims to evaluate the usefulness of the preservation metadata created and maintained by operational repositories for assessing basic preservation properties.
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Joins the OPF
We are delighted to welcome the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) as our latest affiliate member.
Digital Preservation Awards 2014 – nominations now open!
We are pleased to announce we are partnering with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) to sponsor the Award for Research and Innovation in the Digital Preservation Awards 2014.
The National Archives of Estonia joins the Open Planets Foundation
We are pleased to welcome the National Archives of Estonia as our newest member.
Lauri Leht, Director of Digital Archives, explained:
“The National Archives of Estonia has joined Open Planets to collaborate in the field of digital preservation with other innovative members of the archiving community.
The OPF Appoints New Executive Director
The Board of the OPF has appointed Ed Fay as the new Executive Director.