1. Digital Sustainability on the EU Policy Level
TPDL Workshop
London
8th September 2014

2. What is APARSEN? A Network of Excellence in digital preservation
Funded by European Commission
7th Framework Programme — Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation
January 2011 to December 2014 (4 years)
Coordinated by Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK)
31 renowned partners from 13 countries (10 EU countries + Israel, Russia, Switzerland)

3. Network of Excellence

4. Objectives of APARSEN
Looking across the excellent work in digital preservation in Europe
Defragmentation of silos in digital preservation
Trying to bring this work together under a Common Vision
Leading to a “Centre of Excellence”

5. APARSEN approach APARSEN Common Vision APA - CoE
TRUST
SUSTAINABILITY
USABILITY
ACCESS
Stream 1 Integration
Stream 2 Technical research
Stream 3 Non-technical research
Stream 4 Spreading Excellence
APARSEN Common Vision
APA - CoE

6. USABILITY
APARSEN
SUSTAINABILITY
APARSEN defines four topics of DP in which it has undertaken research in state of the art and gap analysis:
TRUST
ACCESS

7. APARSEN
ACCESS
Without the ability to provide access to digital objects and data within a repository digital preservation fails. APARSEN provides some of the answers as to how access can be maintained through work on identifiers and citability, data policies and governance, and digital rights.

8. APARSEN
What are the challenges related to the preservation of digital rights information?
ACCESS
What kind of issues should be covered in data policies?
How can I refer to a digital resource in a sure, unique, stable and global way?
Why do we need Persistent Identifiers for digital resources?
What are the recommendations in dealing with DRM-protected material?
What are the recommendations for governance structures and data policies?

9. APARSEN
USABILITY
APARSEN examined issues relating to interoperability, intelligibility and scalability to help develop a roadmap for how data and digital objects can remain useable and understandable in the long-term.

10. APARSEN
How can I plan for preservation systems at scale with the rapidly growing amount of data and complexity?
USABILITY
What are the recommendations in order to help to plan for scalability?
How is interoperability related to Digital Preservation?
Which approaches for interoperability currently exist?
How I can use this digital object? How can I perform this task?

11. APARSEN
TRUST
The issue of trust is at the core of all digital preservation work. How do we trust that a digital object or data is what it claims to be? APARSEN addresses the issues of trust through work on testing environments, authenticity and provenance, annotation and data quality, and repository certification.

12. APARSEN How can peer review of data be carried out? TRUST
Is being audited worthwhile?
Is my digital repository trustworthy – a framework for audit and certification of digital repositories?
Has the data been changed in any way?
Is my data of a good quality?
Has data been preserved properly?
Am I being directed to the right object?

13. APARSEN
SUSTAIN ABILITY
Digital repositories must be sustainable if they are to meet their preservation commitments in the medium to long-term. Work within APARSEN on topics such as cost/benefit analysis, preservation services, storage, and business cases brings together disparate research around this topic to help us build sustainable repositories.

14. APARSEN SUSTAIN ABILITY
How can I keep the required resources under control?
APARSEN
How can I estimate the resources needed?
SUSTAIN ABILITY
How long must resources be committed?
How can I plan to cope as the volume increases over time?
What are the main requirements for economically sustainable digital preservation?
How can I justify the resources needed for digital preservation?

15. APA Centre of Excellence

16. Integrated vision of APA CoE
APARSEN has created an integrated view of digital preservation embedded in a business process which helps to answer “how?” to “who pays and why?” for DP

17. APA Centre of Excellence (CoE)
The CoE provides
Training
Consultancy
Tools
Services
to support organisations which need to ensure that their digital resources remain understandable and usable

18. APA CoE – Training events
There are a number training options available from the Centre of Excellence (CoE) in the form of: 
Face to face courses
Workshops
Clinics
Summer school
Online training portal
Training can be customized to meet participants learning objectives. The CoE’s members provide expertise in many areas of digital preservation. Please contact us for further details.

19. APA CoE – Online training portal
Course material will be available online in the form of training modules via the APA’s website. Introductory presentations are free of charge and are available on the APA website. A small fee is payable on accessing more detailed course material. Pages will be live in last quarter of 2014.

20. APA CoE – Training Modules
Training modules are presented within specified course outlines as examples.
Modules are accessible individually on the portal.
Sample content is provided, for the full set of modules access the portal which will be fully populated by the end of 2014.

21. APA CoE – Training Modules
example 1

22. APA CoE – Training Modules
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23. Access and Usability in Digital Preservation – Training
APARSEN invites you to a two day training event
Access and Usability in Digital Preservation – Training
17th - 18th September: Florence, Italy
Find more information here:

24. APA CoE – Services & Consultancy

25. APA- CoE – Tools Toolkits from SCIDIP-ES project including:
Representation Information Toolkit
Authenticity Toolkit
Preservation Strategy Toolkit
... all consistent with OAIS model
plus other offerings of Centre of Excellence members offered through the marketing channels of the CoE

26. APA - CoE Is a membership organisation
Provides expertise about digital preservation
Obtains value from digitally encoded information
The unique selling point is that CoE offering is coherent and consistent and should be applicable to any type of digital object and it is backed by the combined experience of the DP pioneers both in the research field and, more importantly, as worldwide earliest adopters of DP practices.

27. APARSEN proudly invites you to the official launch of APA Centre of Excellence (APA-CoE) in Digital Preservation (DP) to be held on October 2014 in Brussels.
Read more at aparsen.eu

28. Safeguarding our Scientific, Educational and Cultural Heritage
APARSEN invites you to a workshop co-located with the RDA 4th Plenary
Safeguarding our Scientific, Educational and Cultural Heritage
24th September: Amsterdam
Find more information here:

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30. Network of Excellence