title: Challenges and benefits of a collaboration of the Collaborators
creators: William Kilbride Marcel Ras Joachim Jung Sabine Schrimpf
abstract: In this panel we want to report about the challenges and
  benefits that we experience in our collaborative efforts. We will
  encourage the audience to add their experiences with initiatives
  like ours. We will furthermore ask input from the audience,
  what issues should we prioritize? From which activities does
  the community profit the most? Should we focus on practical
  solutions or on policy making (or on both)? NCDD, DPC,
  NDSA, Nestor, OPF and PrestoCentre all have their own
  communities, programs, ideas and communications which form
  the basis for their activities. These could be expanded to a
  “collaboration of the collaborators”. The panel will present
  some ideas for such a collaboration and it will invite the
  preservation community to bring in ideas and issues for next
  steps in international collaboration.