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David Giaretta has been appointed as the new Director of the APA. He has been associated with the APA from its start.
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The Alliance for Permanent Access
Digital technology nowadays touches upon almost every aspect of our daily lives. This dependence is particularly critical in our professional activities where the management of digital information is central to the digital economy and emerging knowledge society. In scholarly communications particularly, digital data and information play a central role. Scientific advancement is unimaginable without easy and ubiquitous access to the digital scientific record.
The Alliance for Permanent Access brings together a number of major European research laboratories, research funders, and research support organisations such as national libraries and publishers, to create a shared vision and framework for a sustainable digital information infrastructure providing permanent access to scientific information.
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22 NOV - HELSINKI
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The mission
The mission of APA is to enable permanent access to scholarly information – that is to the digital store of research data, information and knowledge.
Digital preservation is too big an issue for individual institutions, sectors, disciplines or even countries to address on their own, for the research itself has become an international enterprise. To deal with the challenge, European as well as global collaboration is needed involving all stakeholders from different communities.
What we do
APA concentrates its activities on the most pressing issues relevant to the creation of a sustainable science data e-infrastructure. The focus is on preservation and permanent access and (re-)use. The major activities are:
- Aligning and enhancing permanent information infrastructures in Europe
- Networking and building partnerships with relevant stakeholders
- Joint advocacy and representation
- Increasing impact and achieving critical-mass
Contact
For further information about how to join us please contact:
Alliance for Permanent Access
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5 2595 BE The Hague
The Netherlands
t: +44 7770 326 304 or +44 1935 872 660 (UK office)
e: director[at]alliancepermanentaccess.org (Director ) |
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The APARSEN Network of Excellence project has been invited to negotiation with the EU and is essentially certain to be funded.
This Network of Excellence involves many APA members plus many additional organisations, totalling 30 partners.
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At Luxembourg key players in the area of Audit and Certification signed a Memorandum of Understanding to set up a European Framework for Audit and Certification of digital repositories.
The signatories were David Giaretta, Henk Harmsen and Christian Keitel
For more information see the Repository Audit and Certification wiki
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