Collaboration
The Digital Preservation department at The National Archives is involved with research projects and working groups in collaboration with other organisations both nationally and internationally.
Planets - Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services
Planets is a four-year project co-funded by the European Union to address digital preservation challenges. The National Archives is one of 16 project partners from across Europe, and are leading on development of new tools to characterise digital objects.
Preserv and Preserv2 - Preservation Eprint Services
Preserv develops digital preservation services for use in digital repositories. In the first Preserv project, we used our PRONOM & DROID tools to profile file formats held in institutional repositories around the world. The service is available here.
InSPECT - Investigating the significant properties of electronic records over time
Working with the Arts & Humanities Data Service, this project investigates significant properties of digital records which need preserving for the future. It is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee.
Working with industry
We work closely with the IT industry to develop new preservation methods. As an example of this, in July 2007 we signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft to work together to understand how best to preserve documents created in Microsoft formats.
