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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

Moving from the E-ARK project (2014 – 2017) project to become a new eArchiving Building Block in the European Commission’s CEF programme, the E-ARK4ALL went beyond, working with the communities and sectors fostered within E-ARK, and then embraced working not only under/with DG CNECT/DIGIT, but also specifically working with the existing Building Blocks, where synergies emerged, … Read more

Running from 1st February 2014 to 31st January 2017 E-ARK was co-funded by the European Commission under its ICT Policy Support Programme (PSP) within its Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP). Its primary goal was to develop and promote open-source tools, standards, and best practices for long-term digital archiving and preservation. The project brought together … Read more