Janet Anderson Blooming Archive – Renewal • Growth • Continuity 🌸 Welcome! Welcome to the Spring edition of the E-ARK Forum newsletter, the first in our new quarterly series as we move forward under the auspices of the DLM Forum. This edition embraces a “Blooming Archive” theme – focused on renewal, growth, and continuity. 📦 Renewal: Our … Read more
Speakers: Janet Anderson, Highbury R&D; Sven Schlarb, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT); Stephen Mackey, Penwern Date: 3 March Time: 13:00–14:00 CET Short introduction:This webinar presents an end-to-end eArchiving solution for the long-term preservation of and access to 3D models as part of our Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH). It starts by covering the necessary groundwork to … Read more
We are pleased to announce that after the procurement run by the European Commission which ended in September 2025, the eArchiving Initiative is now operating under the umbrella of the DLM Forum. This transition ensures the maintenance of the e-ARK specifications and software components, to plan future events, and allow community members to stay in … Read more
25 October 2023 University of Salamanca The Summit will be organised by the eArchiving Initiative with the support of DG CNECT and will be preceded by the Triennial DLM Forum Conference (Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 October 2023), organised by the Spanish State Archives. The eArchiving Initiative and DLM Forum join forces to organise a … Read more
Virtual Event, 25 April 2023 The eArchiving Initiative organised a virtual presentation event, covering experiences, work in progress and future plans. The event brought together E-ARK consortium members providing the services of the eArchiving initiative on behalf of the EU. Experts of different organizations presented their experiences using different eArchiving components in their own projects. … Read more
The eArchiving Initiative was eArchiving Initiative was a procurement under the European Commission’s E-ARK programme running from October 2022 until the end of September 2025 that provided specificity and guidance for implementing conformant and interoperable Open Archival Information Systems (OAIS, ISO 14721) via core package specifications, software, a reference architecture, training and a Conformance Seal. … Read more
The E-ARK3 consortium (2020–2022) advanced the work of its predecessor, E-ARK4ALL, by further developing and expanding the Core Services Platform for the eArchiving Building Block DSI. Over the course of the project, E-ARK3 focused on maintaining and updating the existing set of specifications to ensure their relevance, while also adding new guidelines and broadening the … Read more
This is the final version of the specification of the E-ARK Dissemination Information Package (DIP) formats. The secondary aim is to describe the access scenarios in which these DIP formatswill be rendered for use. This document is a revision of the deliverable D5.3 E-ARK DIP Pilot Specification, which was published in May 2016.
Throughout the life of our project, the E-ARK team has engaged in a wide range of activities to inform the many different groups with a potential interest in our work about what we have been doing.
We been represented at many conferences and events as well as well as organising our own. We have maintained a substantial presence on Social Media.
BUT these are all inputs. Now the project is coming to an end, to what extent has all work achieved our goals of motivating individuals, and through them the organisations they work for, to be more aware of the issues E-ARK aaddresses and the tools and services we have provided.
This report analyses both our inputs and the results of our recent survey on long-term impacts.
This report is the final summary of the activities and outcomes of the Pilots which were conducted by the E-ARK Project.
