14 May 2025
Albert Borschette Building and Online
The eArchiving Initiative organised the annual event in Brussels on Wednesday 14 May 2025. The conference focused on two main topics, namely database preservation and the EUDI electronic archiving trust service.
Both public and private sector organisations need to securely and efficiently archive electronic data and documents essential for their operations. However, maintaining data for long-term access is a challenge for many organisations. Frequently, these data are in databases.
The morning session of this event considered the state of the art in database preservation. Database preservation involves a series of practices and strategies to ensure that data remains usable and intact over time despite technological changes and potential data degradation. There will be presentations to explore this topic from members of the DILCIS Board who maintain SIARD specification (Software Independent Archiving of Relational Databases) and from members of the Database Archiving Working Group. These will be complemented by presentations of use cases.
The afternoon session focused on the new trust service in the EUDI based on the eIDAS: the electronic archiving trust service. The EUDI Regulation aims to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market and the provision of trust services used across the European Union. Different stakeholders will present their views on the impact of this new trust service. The event will conclude with a reflection on how the eArchiving Initiative has incorporated the outcomes of the 2024 Brussels event and the plans for the coming year.
Below you can find the presentations from the event. The video recordings will be available soon.
Presentations
Opening session
- Rehana Schwinninger-Ladak (Head of unit, DG. CNECT): Welcome speech
- Árpád Welker (Policy officer, DG. CNECT) presents: eArchiving in Europe’s
digital policy
Keynote Address
- Kuldar Aas (Data Governance Programme Lead AI and Data Unit, Ministry of Justice and Digital Affairs, Estonia): Time to make space for eArchiving in Data Spaces! – Presentation | Video
Session 1: Databases preservation
- Anders Bo Nielsen (Senior adviser, Digital Preservation, Danish National Archives; member of the DILCIS board): The SIARD format – past, present, future – Presentation | Video
- Isabel Taylor (Head of Unit, Archival Core Functions, University of Hamburg, Archives, Germany): Outcomes from the International Database-Archiving Working Group – Presentation | Video
- Koit Saarevet (National Archives of Estonia): Method of Access to Series of Archived Database Snapshots – Presentation | Video
- Jan Dalsten (Divisional Head of Data Science, Danish National Archives): The access system to archived databases of the Danish National Archives – Presentation | Video
- Boris Domajnko (MSCS International Database-Archiving Working Group): Meeting End-User Expectations with dbDIPview – Presentation | Video
- Sven Schlarb (AIT, Austria): Beyond Relational Databases: Challenges of Archiving NoSQL or Graphs – Presentation | Video
- Round table: What are the lessons learned and the future challenges of database preservation – Video
Session 2: EUDI Electronic archiving trust service
- Carlota Bustelo (Gabinete Umbus SL, Spain): General presentation on EUDI/eIDAS and electronic archiving service – Presentation | Video
- Marta Gaia Castellan (Tinexta Infocert, Italy): eIDAS/EUDI Regulation electronic archiving service from the point of view of a Qualified Trust Service Provider – Presentation | Video
- István Alföldi (Poliphon, Hungary): eIDAS/EUDI related views in the eArchiving Reference Architecture: integrating ETSI 119 512 protocols for the preservation of electronic signatures – Presentation | Video
Closing Session
- Janet Anderson (Highbury R&D, Ireland) presents: Your feedback matters: Moving forward with our eArchiving Stakeholders – Presentation | Video