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What We Need

Information about digital preservation problems, shared user and practitioner requirements from tools, and collaborative use cases for development.

Datasets, Issues, Contexts and Solutions

Information about digital Datasets, preservation Issues with those Collections, Contextual information about those issues and Solutions to the Issues.

Practitioners' Working Group

Minutes from the Practitioners' Brainstorming meeting can be found here.

Users and practitioners are invited to join the OPF Practitioners' Working Group and mailing list. The mailing list will annouce new tool developments and will invite users to test tools and provide feedback as to whether they meet their requirements or how their functionality can be improved to best meet their needs. The Working Group will meet/teleconference regularly to establish what the community needs, monitor how well the activities are working and initiate open discussions on the issues that are being faced.

To sign up, update your information in your OPF website account >> Newsletter Subscriptions, or register for an account: http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/user/register

Our wishlist

Each of these pages should capture the need that we want to address, with the aim of generating more formal requirements and use cases that describe that need.

• 10 steps towards good preservation
• Characterisation Tool Requirements
• Collecting and sharing information about file formats
• Database Archiving Tool
• Datasets, Issues, Contexts and Solutions
• Emulation
• File Format Registry
• Format identification tools
• Information on four most widely-used file formats
• Planning tools
• Preservation Watch
• Results Evaluation Framework (REF)
• Testbed
• Test corpora
• Tools to prevent and repair Bit Rot
• Widget wishlist