At a prestigious ceremony the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) recently celebrated its tenth anniversary by recognising initiatives and individuals from around the world that have made an outstanding contribution to safeguard digital resources for the future.
At the DPC’s Digital Preservation Awards, which took place at the Wellcome Collection in London, Monday night, 3rd of December, three agencies received awards for their exceptional contribution to ensuring the long-term security of digital collections: the University of London Computer Centre for their pioneering and popular ‘Digital Preservation Training Programme’; the PLANETS project for its ground-breaking and innovative technologies; and the Archaeology Data Service at the University of York for its outstanding work securing valuable but vulnerable research data.
The Award for Research and Innovation was presented by Martyn Harrow, Chief Executive of JISC to the PLANETS project. PLANETS brought together memory institutions, small businesses, major technology providers, and research institutions from across Europe to build practical services and tools to help ensure long-term access to digital cultural and scientific assets. It established the not-for-profit Open Planets Foundation to provide the digital preservation community with services, ongoing support, and a sustainable future for its Open Source results. It advanced the state-of-the-art in digital preservation and has permanently changed the digital preservation landscape by shifting the focus to practical, sustainable solutions that are soundly supported by practice-driven research. AIT played a major role in the project as the leader of the Interoperability Framework sub-project.
The Planets project (“Permanent Long-term Access through NETworked Services”) has been over since 2010. After the project ending Planets lived on through the Open Planets Foundation (OPF). AIT is member at the foundations board of directors represented by Dr. Ross King, Thematic Coordinator of the Research Service "Digital Memory Engineering", AIT Safety & Security Department.
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