The E-ARK Foundation is a consortium of partners working with the European Commission as part of the eArchiving Initiative to provide core specifications, software, training and knowledge with the aim to promote the interoperability of digital archives in Europe and to help organisations and people to preserve information for the long term.
Running from 2014 to 2017 and co-funded by the European Commission E-ARK was originally a multinational big data research project that improved the methods and technologies of digital archiving, in order to achieve consistency on a Europe-wide scale.
After the E-ARK project ended, a series of projects were undertaken to first become a Building Block of the Core Services Platform of the European Commission’s Connecting Europe Facility, and now to establish the eArchiving Common Services Platform (eArchiving CSP) under the European Commission’s Digital Europe programme.
Recent updates
- Validating with meaning: syntactic and semantic validation of the E-ARK SIP November 25, 2024
- Theory meets practice: Harnessing AI for practical implementations in digital archiving – November 2024 in Budapest, Hungary November 18, 2024
- eArchiving Specifications for Interoperability October 17, 2024
- Using the eArchiving Capability Maturity Model September 23, 2024
- Les clés d’un archivage numérique durable July 29, 2024