1. Caring and Sharing Collaboration in Digital Curation outside North America Ross Harvey Simmons College, Boston Curation Matters: 17 June 2010

2. Collaboration in Digital Curation outside North America  Collaboration in digital curation  Digital curation in Australia & New Zealand  European digital curation research projects  Why?

3. Collaboration: examples

4. Population of Australia

5. Population of New Zealand

6. NLA Staff Papers

7. Neil Beagrie, 2003 For a country with a relatively small population, Australia has a relatively large number of leading- edge online projects across all sectors. Archiving these online materials has become a significant area of effort for Australia’s memory institutions, and both the NLA and the national archive activities and guidelines are frequently cited internationally as exemplars in this area. … There is an active electronic records management/ archive sector in Australia. Work at Monash University, the PRO of Victoria, and the National Archive of Australia has earned an international reputation

8. Australian digital curation activities

9. Australian National Data Service

10. ARCHER (Australian Research Enabling Environment)

11. NLNZ Metadata Extraction Tool

12. Web Curator Tool

13. National Digital Heritage Archive

15. European digital curation : Context  2003 - UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage  2006 - European Commission Recommendation on digitisation, online accessibility and digital preservation of cultural resources

16. Digital Agenda for Europe, 2010

17. European projects  CASPAR Cultural, Artistic and Scientific Knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval  PLANETS Permanent Long-term Access through Networked Services  KEEP Keeping Emulation Environments  DPE Digital Preservation Europe  SHAMAN Sustaining Heritage Access through Multivalent Archiving

18. CASPAR http://www.casparpreserves.eu CASPAR’s objectives were to: Implement, extend, and validate the OAIS reference model Enhance the techniques for capturing Representation Information … Design virtualisation services … Integrate DRM, authentication, accreditation … Research more sophisticated access to and use of preserved digital resources … Develop case studies … Actively contribute to the relevant standardisation activities … Raise awareness about the critical importance of digital preservation …

19. PLANETS www.planets-project.eu Planets expected to deliver: Preservation Planning services that empower organisations to define, evaluate, and execute preservation Methodologies, tools and services for the Characterisation of digital objects Innovative solutions for Preservation Actions tools … An Interoperability Framework to seamlessly integrate tools and services in a distributed service network A Testbed to provide a consistent and coherent evidence-base … A comprehensive Dissemination and Takeup program to ensure vendor adoption and effective user training

20. KEEP www.keepproject.eu  Will develop emulation tools  Aims to improve understanding about how emulation strategies can be integrated into digital archives

21. DPE www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu Objectives To create a coherent platform for proactive cooperation, collaboration, exchange and dissemination of research results and experience in the preservation of digital objects To increase prevalence, viability & accountability of preservation services (includes ICT industry links; research) To improve awareness, skills and available resources

22. SHAMAN shaman-ip.eu/shaman  Building a digital preservation framework, using new technologies grid computing virtualization and distribution technologies with associated tools  Three prototype areas: scientific publishing and parliamentary archives industrial design and engineering scientific application

23. UK activities

24. European digital curation trends 2008  Themes  Development of tools  Testing, evaluation  Trusted digital repositories – auditing/certification  National digital strategies  Strong European DP networks

25. European digital curation trends 2010  Ongoing strong (or increasing) interest ‘Community’: collaboration, coordination Dissemination Testing and evaluation Toolkit development  New interests Standards Public policy development and promotion Skills identification Training Links with ICT industry

26. Digital curation in Europe, Aus/NZ: themes  Funding strong in Europe, Australia  National strategies  Publicly available documentation

27. Contact details Ross Harvey Visiting Professor Graduate School of Library & Information Science Simmons College, Boston Email: ross.harvey@simmons.eduross.harvey@simmons.edu