National and International collaboration

The British Library Digital Preservation Team is committed to working collaboratively with the wider preservation community. We recognise the scale of the challenge faced, and the need to pool resources with other experts and leading organisations in order to meet the challenges.

National and international preservation projects

SCAPE (SCAlable Preservation Environments)

Aiming to develop scalable services for planning and execution of institutional preservation strategies on an open source platform that orchestrates semi-automated workflows for large-scale, heterogeneous collections of complex digital objects.

APARSEN (Alliance Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe Network)

A Network of Excellence that aims to bring together an extremely diverse set of practitioner organisations and researchers, exploiting our diversity by building a long-lived Virtual Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation.

SPRUCE (Sustainable PReservation Using Community Engagement)

Fostering a vibrant and self-supporting community of digital preservation practitioners via a mixture of online interaction and face to face events based on the successful AQuA mashup events.

Other collaborative work

The British Library is a founding member of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the Open Planet Foundation (OPF). In 2008, the Library hosted the International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2008) in London.

The British Library led the EU co-funded PLANETS project on Preservation and Long Term Access through Networked Services from 2006 - 2010. The project won the DPC's first Digital Preservation Award for Research and Development in December 2012. More details