Enabling kNowledge Sustainability Usability and Recovery for Economic value

Project description

Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation
The project addresses the long-term usability of commercially relevant data produced or controlled by organisations. It draws on motivation from use cases in health care, finance and clinical trials

Ensuring long term usability for the spiralling amounts of data produced or controlled by organisations with commercial interests is quickly becoming a major problem. Drawing on motivation from uses cases in aerospace, health care, finance and clinical trials, ENSURE will significantly extend the state of the art in digital preservation which to-date has focused on relatively homogeneous cultural heritage data.

The use cases bring up a number of issues specific to digital preservation in the context of the industry and services sector:

• safely leveraging scalable pay-as-you-go infrastructure such as clouds
• helping businesses understand the economic implications of preservation
• conforming to regulatory, contractual and legal requirements as part of a whole workflow
• managing long term integrity and authenticity of significant intellectual property or highly personal data
• using off-the-shelf IT technologies to support the preservation of different types of digital resources

ENSURE builds upon broader advances in ICT and integrates preservation solutions with existing ICT assets and approaches, in particular in the following areas:

• Cost and value: evaluate the cost and benefit of different quality solutions
• Preservation lifecycle management: build on industry standard lifecycle management approaches to manage the preservation lifecycle, ensuring regulatory compliance, allowing changes in the preservation approach to reflect environmental changes, addressing evolution of ontologies and managing the quality of the digital objects over time.
• Content-aware long term data protection: ensure long-term, content-aware data protection, addressing changes in personally identifiable information, new and evolving regulations, managing user identities over decades, etc.
• Leveraging wider ICT trends: evaluate the costs/risks/benefits and demonstrate how to use emerging, commonly available information technology to enable scalable solutions for digital preservation, considering in particular cloud storage and virtual application image capture.

Field of science

• /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/computer security/data protection

Programme(s)

• FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies

Topic(s)

• ICT-2009.4.1 - Digital libraries and digital preservation

Call for proposal

FP7-ICT-2009-6
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Funding Scheme

CP - Collaborative project (generic)

Coordinator

IBM ISRAEL - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LTD

Address

94 Derech Em-hamoshavot
49527 Petach Tikva
Israel

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

EU contribution

€ 1 936 508

Administrative Contact

Eliot Salant (Mr.)

Participants (13)

CUSTODIX NV

Belgium

EU contribution

€ 534 500

Address

Kortrijksesteenweg 214 B3
9830 Sint-martens-latem

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Brecht Claerhout (Mr.)

FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.

Germany

EU contribution

€ 716 601

Address

Hansastrasse 27C
80686 Munchen

Activity type

Research Organisations

Administrative Contact

Andrea Zeumann (Ms.)

JRC CAPITAL MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY & RESEARCH GMBH

Germany

EU contribution

€ 312 000

Address

Kurfurstendamm 186
10707 Berlin

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Petra Ristau (Ms.)

ATOS SPAIN SA

Spain

EU contribution

€ 454 768

Address

Calle De Albarracin 25
28037 Madrid

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Irene Schmidt (Ms.)

FUNDACION PARA EL FOMENTO DE LA INVESTIGACION SANITARIA Y BIOMEDICA DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA

Spain

EU contribution

€ 36 149

Address

Calle Micer Masco 31
46010 Valencia

Activity type

Research Organisations

Administrative Contact

Juana Ferrús (Ms.)

CENTRO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACION EN SALUD PUBLICA

Participation ended

Spain

EU contribution

€ 58 742

Address

Avenida De Catalunya 21
46020 Valencia

Activity type

Research Organisations

Administrative Contact

Juana M. Ferrús (Ms.)

MACCABI SHEIRUTEI BRIUT FOUNDATION

Israel

EU contribution

€ 322 750

Address

Hamered Street 27
68125 Tel Aviv

Activity type

Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Hadas Lewy (Dr.)

PHILIPS ELECTRONICS NEDERLAND BV

Netherlands

EU contribution

€ 769 859

Address

High Tech Campus 52
5656 AG Eindhoven

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Ard Nieuwenhuis (Mr.)

UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO

Portugal

EU contribution

€ 243 361

Address

Praca Gomes Teixeira
4099 002 Porto

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

Administrative Contact

Mafalda Marques Moreira Soeiro (Ms.)

LULEA TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET

Sweden

EU contribution

€ 928 152

Address

Universitetsomradet Porson
971 87 Lulea

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

Administrative Contact

Östen Jonsson (Mr.)

CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY

United Kingdom

EU contribution

€ 492 660

Address

College Road
MK43 0AL Cranfield - Bedfordshire

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

Administrative Contact

Essam Shehab (Dr.)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL

United Kingdom

EU contribution

€ 545 950

Address

Polaris House North Star Avenue
SN2 1SZ Swindon

Activity type

Research Organisations

Administrative Contact

David Giaretta (Dr.)

TESSELLA LTD

United Kingdom

EU contribution

€ 498 000

Address

The Quadrant Abingdon Science Park 26
OX14 3YS Abingdon

Activity type

Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

Administrative Contact

Robert Sharpe