The CASPAR Project

CASPAR - Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval - is an Integrated Project co-financed by the European Union within the Sixth Framework Programme (Priority IST-2005-2.5.10, "Access to and preservation of cultural and scientific resources").

CASPAR intends to:

• Implement, extend, and validate the OAIS reference model (ISO:14721:2003)
• Enhance the techniques for capturing Representation Information and other preservation related information for content objects
• Design virtualisation services supporting long term digital resource preservation, despite changes in the underlying computing (hardware and software) and storage systems, and the Designated Communities.
• Integrate digital rights management, authentication, and accreditation as standard features of CASPAR.
• Research more sophisticated access to and use of preserved digital resources including intuitive query and browsing mechanisms
• Develop case studies to validate the CASPAR approach to digital resource preservation across different user communities and assess the conditions for a successful replication.
• Actively contribute to the relevant standardisation activities in areas addressed by CASPAR.
• Raise awareness about the critical importance of digital preservation among the relevant user-communities and facilitate the emergence of a more diverse offer of systems and services for preservation of digital resources.