[Asis-l] PLANETS Testbed Questionnaire - Deadline extended

[Joy Davidson]

***Apologies for cross-posting***

***Deadline for submissions extended***

Dear Colleagues,

PLANETS needs your help to ensure that we develop the most effective
environment for experimentation in digital preservation as is possible. Such
environments, commonly known as testbeds, are frequently used in engineering
and provide a controlled space in which experiments can be conducted,
controlled, documented, validated, and rerun.

The EU co-funded PLANETS project brings together key national libraries and
national archives, as well as leading research institutes and technology
vendors, in order to deliver a sustainable framework that will enable
long-term preservation of digital content, increasing Europe's ability to
ensure long-term access to its cultural and scientific heritage. For more
information about PLANETS see  http://www.planets-project.eu/

Within the PLANETS project, the Testbed subproject aims to

* provide an infrastructure for testing and evaluating
preservation action (e.g. migration, emulation) and characterisation tools
and services, and to assist the validation of the effectiveness of different
digital preservation plans;
* provide an infrastructure for experimentation for the whole
preservation community and thereby spur the development in the field of
digital preservation;
* facilitate organisations to validate their digital preservation plans
against the PLANETS service infrastructure.

The project team wishes to understand the kinds of uses that the research
and practitioner community might make of the PLANETS Testbed so that we can
ensure that these uses are reflected in its design and implementation. If
you feel that you could contribute to helping us shape the design of the
PLANETS Digital Preservation Testbed please complete the brief questionnaire
at http://www.planets-project.eu/testbed-questionnaire/

We hope that the PLANETS Testbed will be available for use by the
preservation community by the Autumn of 2007.

We will keep the questionnaire open until the 15th of December 2006.

Yours sincerely

Seamus Ross, HATII - University of Glasgow
Ross King, Austrian Research Centers, Vienna
Max Kaiser, Austrian National Library, Vienna*


 *On behalf of the PLANETS Testbed Subproject

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