Information Systems Laboratory (ISL)
CASPAR - Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval
CASPAR will address the growing challenge facing society of a deluge of intrinsically fragile digital information, upon which it is increasingly dependent, by building a pioneering framework to support the end-to-end preservation "lifecycle" for scientific, artistic and cultural information, based on existing and emerging standards. The ambitious challenge to build up a common preservation framework for heterogeneous data and a variety of innovative applications will be achieved through the following high level objectives:
• To establish the foundation methodology applicable to a very wide range of pre eservation issues . Th e guiding principle of CASPAR is the application of the OAIS Reference Model .
• T o research, develop and integrate advanced components to be used in a wide range of preservation activities. These components will be the building blocks of the CASPAR Framework
• To create the CASPAR framework: the software platform that enables the building of services and applications that can be adapted to multiple areas .
The CASPAR consortium will demonstrate the validity of the CASPAR framework through heterogeneous testbeds, covering a wide range of disciplines from science to culture to contemporary arts and multi-media, providing a reliable common infrastructure which can be used or replicated in many more areas.
Project's Web Site: http://www.casparpreserves.eu/
Contact Person: Vassilis Christophides
E Mail: christopATics.forth.gr
Duration: 1/4/2006 - 30/9/2009 (42 months)
Funding: EU - FP6 - IST
Prime Contractor: Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils
Project Leader: DavidGiaretta
Participants:
- Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils
- European Space Agency, ESRIN
- University of Glasgow HATII
- Universita' degli studi di Urbino, Istbal (Istituto di studi per la tutela dei beni archivistici e librari)
- UNESCO
- Advanced Computer Systems ACS S.p.A. of Rome
- Asemantics S. r. l.
- IBM Haifa Research Laboratory
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Istituto della Scienza e delle Tecnologie della Informazione )
- Metaware
- Institut National de l'Audiovisuel
- University of Leeds
- Engineering – Ingegneria Informatica
- Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- 1l'Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique
- International Centre for Art and New Technology in Prague
