Objective
"The amount and variety of content being published online is growing at an exceptional rate. Online publishing enables content to reach a much larger audience than paper publishing but offers no guarantee of long-term access to the content. This work investigates techniques for building a large, reliable peer-to-peer system for the preservation of online published material. The system consists of a large number of low-cost, persistent web caches (peers) that cooperate to detect and repair damage by voting in ""opinion polls"" on the content of their cached documents. The peers are autonomous and mutually suspicious. Project activities include 1) investigating defenses against adversaries whose goal is to attack the preservation process; 2) performing a foundational study of the interconnections between identity, trust, and reputation models in peer-to-peer systems; 3) investigating the use of estimates of peer diversity to increase the fault and attack tolerance of peer-to-peer systems; and 4) developing, analyzing, implementing, and testing new protocols that address the high frequency of updates of online government documents, the large volumes of scientific data, and the privacy concerns of sensitive medical data.
This work is being evaluated using a real testbed of over 200 libraries around the world with the support of publishers representing over 2000 titles. The broader impact of the work is that all electronic material preserved through the system including academic journals, government documents and web articles, and scientific and medical data will remain accessible to generations of citizens for both research and education purposes."
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Topic(s)
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Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Call for proposal
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Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
ERC-2011-StG_20101014
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Host institution
10 561 ATHINA
Greece
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