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This page lists some useful documents related to emulation and preservation for professionals.
Insight to Digital Preservation of research output in Europe
This report (deliverable 3.4 of PARSE.Insight) describes the results of the surveys conducted by PARSE.Insight to gain insight into research in Europe. Major surveys were held within three stakeholder domains: research, publishing and data management.
First Version of GRATE - Planets project
"This deliverable describes the first version of GRATE (Global Remote Access To Emulation services), one of the tools for environments in PA/5, which allows access to emulation processes run remotely via a network.
This document is intended for both project participants and technical specialists. It describes the history, design, functionality, technical environment and future work of the latest release of GRATE within the Planets project. It does not contain a user manual for the tool. Installation notes can be downloaded from the appropriate project website, together with the released software."
Planets_PA5-D7_GRATE.pdf 541.91 kB
Report describing results case studies - Planets project
"This deliverable is meant as a first exploration of the possibilities, strengths and weaknesses of the application of emulation and virtualization as a preservation approach."
May, 2008
Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’éducation, la science et la culture
Adopted at the 32nd session of the General Conference of UNESCO, 17 October 2003
Charter_en[1].pdf 92.13 kB
International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation
A joint report of The Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
The Joint Information Systems Committee
The Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Law Project
The SURFfoundation
July 2008