co-funded by the European Union

Description

SHAMAN is an Integrated Project in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) part of the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union. The aim is the development of a next generation framework for digital long term preservation, i.e. archiving digital objects for at least 100 years. At the first ICT call for participation SHAMAN received 14.5 out of 15 points and is regarded as a flagship project in the digital preservation community.

Part of the SHAMAN framework is the development of a preservation reference architecture based on data grid as well as the necessary preservation tools for analysis, ingest, access, management and reuse across distributed repositories of the contents.

The results of the first part will by trialled and demonstrated on three application domains: memory institutions for scientific publications and governmental (parliamental) archives, industrial design and engineering (CAD) and finally eScience.

The project is heavily end-user oriented with public and industrial partners as project members as e.g. the German National Library, the Goettingen State and University Library, Philips and Xerox.

For the first time in digital long term preservation the security plays an important part. In SHAMAN this part is in the responsibility of the Research Group Multimedia and Security with the following tasks:

1. the characterisation of policies to enforce the security mechanisms like integrity and authenticity of the digital objects as well as the whole infrastructure,
2. the development of tools to enforce these policies, and
3. the specification of assessment criteria to validate the whole infrastructure.

Duration

December 2007 - November 2011

Staff

• Prof. Dr. Jana Dittmann (Homepage)
• Prof. Dr. Claus Vielhauer (Homepage)
• Christian Krätzer (Homepage)
• Maik Schott (Homepage)

Links

SHAMAN website: http://www.shaman-ip.eu/