Pat Manson

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IST and digital preservation research

• Pat Manson
• European Commission
• DG INFORMATION SOCIETY/D2

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IST digital preservation research

• Digital preservation - one of 3 core issues in
  digital heritage cultural content domain
• surrogates to protect fragile resources
• preservation of what is digital - digitised and
  born-digital
• Emerging recognition that
• digitisation investments may be compromised
• society with no memory

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IST digital preservation research

• Projects to date film and video heritage
• Digital film restoration - BRAVA. Automated
  techniques for removing film impairments etc. To
  HDTV standard
• PRESTO/AMICITIA digitisation and long-term
  archival environments for broadcast video and
  film materials

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IST digital preservation research

• Issues
• Increasing range of stakeholders - beyond
  cultural domain
• Archiving dynamic materials
• Archiving distributed materials -
  responsibilities and techniques
• Business models
• Costs

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IST digital preservation research

• Short term opportunities
• 2001 Workprogramme - dynamic archiving and
  safeguarding citizens heritage reference
  test-beds for digital preservation
• Networks of excellence workgroups and centres
  of competence in multimedia

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IST digital preservation research

• Some future perspectives
• Different time-frames - different solutions
• short term - awareness, good practice,
  dissemination
• mid-term - known experiments, expanding the
  knowledge base
• longer -term - flexible approaches, developing
  benchmarking baselines
• Political/policy and technological impact

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DG Information Society Cultural Heritage
Applications

• E-mail patricia.manson_at_cec.eu.int
• digicult_at_cec.eu.int
• Web www.cordis.lu/ist/
• www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult
• www.cordis.lu/libraries/en/ libraries.html

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