Digital preservation colleagues: please share your expertise on identification, selection and appraisal with the EDEN project!
Jared Lyle
Forwarding on behalf of CODATA...
Dear colleague,
CODATA is leading a task in the new EOSC-funded project, EDEN (https://eden-fidelis.eu/), and would like input from your organisation. Please can you help us by sharing this request with the people in your organisation who are responsible for digital preservation activity?
In EOSC EDEN, we are interested in how digital preservation professionals across the globe currently work. We are keen to understand the existing frameworks, guidelines and practices for identification, selection and appraisal of data for “long-term” preservation – and what “long term” means in different organisational and professional settings. This is an important area where sharing knowledge can make a meaningful impact as digital preservation continues to grow as a diverse field and community.
To that end, we're running an inquiry to gather, compare and evaluate current knowledge and practice. We need your help to gain a more comprehensive picture of these frameworks, guidelines and practices in the field. Written from the perspective of digital preservationists working within the sector, we have created a short and focused survey which should take no more than about five to seven minutes to complete:
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/EOSC-EDEN-T1survey2025
Please can you contact the people in your organisation who are responsible for digital preservation activity, and ask them to submit a response? Multiple responses from the same organisation are welcome.
Whether you work in research, cultural heritage, industry, or another sector, and whether you are part of a large organisation or a small team, we would like to hear from you. The survey is suitable for members of staff at any level in the organisation and does not ask for any sensitive information. We hope that, as colleagues across the digital preservation world, you will take a few minutes to share information with us about your current practices, and the guidelines and frameworks that inform your decisions.
The survey is open until 30 June 2025. Please take part now at:
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/EOSC-EDEN-T1survey2025
For any questions about the survey or the work of EDEN WP1, please contact the task lead, Laura Molloy, at la...@codata.org.
Thank you for sharing your expertise – your contribution is incredibly valuable!