Enhancing Digital Preservation Strategies: Navigating the EOSC EDEN Project : Short Paper - iPRES 2025 - Wellington, New Zealand / Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa
Abstract
The introduction of FAIR, CARE and TRUST principles to the research data management domain in general and the importance of digital preservation processes to keep deposited digital research objects FAIR over time, has a substantial impact on digital archives managing these diverse and growing volumes of content. Limited availability of resources (energy, capacity) and high maintenance requirements (diversity of formats and community needs) leads to archives being confronted with deciding which data to preserve. Whereas libraries and archives typically have overarching collection policies and guidelines for analogue and digital materials, digital research data repositories often find themselves starting from scratch. The EU-funded EOSC EDEN (2025 - 2027) project aims to address the issues by standardizing digital preservation and data curation practices for FAIR-enabling preservation and data curation practices for digital research data objects at European level and beyond. Its primary mission is to analyse the current landscape of digital preservation and data curation practices for the long-term care of digital research objects and to create a comprehensive framework that will help digital research data repositories and archives to identify what data are candidates for digital preservation. Additionally, EOSC EDEN will develop a model for re-evaluating data throughout its lifecycle, ensuring that preservation efforts remain relevant over time. EOSC EDEN will establish an expert curation network and boost effective data preservation and curation in Europe. This paper gives a short introduction into the background and motivation, objectives, methods and expected outcomes of the EOSC EDEN project.Details
- Creators
- Micky Lindlar; Fen Zhang; Anu Märkälä; Julie Allen; Juha Lehtonen; Philipp Conzett; Wilko Steinhoff; Kris Dekeyser; Roxanne Wyns
- Institutions
- Date
- 2025-09-01 00:00:00 +0000
- Keywords
- digital humanities
- Publication Type
- paper
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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