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Audata, together with partners Tessella, were selected to provide
strategic consulting for digital preservation to the Government of the
Netherlands, including practical experiments and implementation. The
Digital Preservation Testbed is a 3 year research project which began
in July 2000. It was designed to investigate and evaluate the possible
approaches for long-term preservation of electronic records in order to
make recommendations to government departments and the National
Archives of the Netherlands on their future strategy.
These
recommendations cover:
- guidelines on immediate steps to be taken to facilitate long-term preservation of electronic records
- recommendations on the preservation approaches to be adopted for different record types
- cost models to assess the present and future resources necessary
to implement a reliable long-term electronic archiving framework.
The project is structured around a series of experiments, intended to
generate specific practical knowledge about the pros and cons of
different combinations of preservation approaches and record types. The
analysis of the series of experiments will be used to develop the
recommendations and advice. |
