Conveners
Session 2: Scientific Archives in EiroForum Organisations - Physics & Engineering
- Eva Belonohy (UKAEA)
- Salome Rohr (CERN)
CERN Digital Memory project has developed a Web platform to enable the preservation of digital assets produced by the organization following the OAIS principles.
In this talk, we intend to first expose the motivations behind this development.
We will then explain how the platform is designed - its backend and its scalability.
We propose to feature its user interface via a brief...
The Joint European Torus (JET) has produced over 1PB of raw and processed data over its 40-year lifetime. Raw data is stored in a proprietary data format which varies depending on the underlying experimental source. The legacy nature of this format and the associated software poses some challenges for both adding new sources and considering the long-term preservation of the data and...
In 2002, ESA decided to create a new, dedicated, place for space records. The European Centre for Space Records at ESRIN, Italy, was conceived to host technical documentation coming from ESA projects and space missions. Two decades later, the ECSR is the home of the analogue and digital legacy of the European Space Agency, archiving the administrative, legal and contractual archives with the...
The Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU) preserves and makes accessible to the public for onsite and online consultation the archival material of the EU institutions, private deposits of European pioneers and visionaries, movements and international organisations. The European Space Agency (ESA) has contributed to the history of European memory, the fonds has been preserved at the...
In this presentation, we will talk about our interest as the Library, Documentation and Information Services Department at the European Southern Observatory, in developing an historical archive with the documentation available at our telescopes. In particular, those available at La Silla and Paranal observatories. This is relevant not only for our institution but also to contribute to the...
