EU Institutions meet CEF eArchiving
On Valentine's Day (14 February 2020), the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eArchiving Building Block held a workshop for the EU Institutions in Brussels, Belgium.
The event increased awareness of the value of standards-based, interoperable data archiving as promoted through the eArchiving Building Block to the relevant colleagues and services within EU Institutions.
The Commission's Informatics department (DIGIT) presented the CEF programme.
Subsequently, the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT) presenting the CEF eArchiving Building Block itself.
The specific eArchiving services were presented by the E-ARK consortium.
While eArchiving focuses on preservation of data, the active digitisation processing of archives is inevitable, the European Commission's Historical Archives Service therefore presented their own digitisation process during this workshop.
This workshop welcomed 40 participants in person, 49 online via the web stream
The afternoon programme focused on the current digital preservation plans and activities in the Publications Office of the European Union and the Commission's Historical Archives Service. This workshop concluded with a break-out session, enabling the participants to share their current archiving barriers, and if or how CEF eArchiving could help them and provide any feedback they had to the Building Block team.