DARE to keep e-material ready for the future!

DARE (Digital Academic Repositories) is a collaborative project and aims to modernise the management of Dutch academic information by putting an infrastructure system in place and providing advanced services for the digital recording, accessing, storage and distribution of the complete Dutch academic output. It is a joint effort of all Dutch universities and a few large academic organisations, like the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. The project will use existing developments that fit in with international standards like the OAIS and OAI-PMH models. The project officially started in January 2003.

In this presentation special attention will be paid at development that is going on in the field of sustainable (perpetual?) archiving of academic materials. The latest developments will be presented as a result of collaboration between several universities in the Netherlands, Delft being one of them: they are working at “XML containers”that will keep e-material safe for future use.

Maria A.M. Heijne
Librarian Delft University of Technology Library
P.O.Box 98, 2600 MG Delft
Phone : +31 15 2785656
E-mail: M.A.M.Heijne@library.TUDelft.nl