This is a general presentation of the EU Project SCAPE, http://www.scape-project.eu from 2011. The project is about large-scale digital preservation and runs from 2011 to 2014.

1. SCAPE
SCAPE
SCAlable Preservation Environments
Coordinator: Ross King
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH

2. SCAPE
SCAPE – what is it about?
• Managing computing-intensive preservation
processes such as the large-scale ingestion or
migration of large (multi-Terrabyte) data sets
SCAPE is a follow-up to the highly successful FP6 IP Planets.
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3. SCAPE
SCAPE Project Data
• Project instrument: FP7 Integrated Project
• 6. Call
• Objective ICT-2009.4.1:
Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation
• Target outcome (a) Scalable systems and services for
preserving digital content
• Duration: 42 months
• February 2011 – July 2014
• Budget: 11.3 Million Euro
• Funded: 8.6 Million Euro
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4. SCAPE
SCAPE Consortium
Number Partner name Partner short name Country
1 (coordinator) AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH AIT AT
2 British Library BL UK
3 European Archive Foundation EA NL
4 Ex Libris Ltd EXL IL
5 Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe FIZ DE
6 Koninklijke Bibliotheek KB NL
7 KEEP Solutions KEEPS PT
8 Microsoft Research MSR UK
9 Österreichische Nationalbibliothek ONB AT
10 Open Planets Foundation OPF UK
11 Statsbiblioteket Aarhus SB DK
12 Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC UK
13 Technische Universität Berlin TUB DE
14 Technische Universität Wien TUW AT
15 University of Manchester UNIMAN UK
16 Pierre & Marie Curie Université Paris 6 UPMC FR
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5. SCAPE
SCAPE: Project Overview
SCAPE will enhance the state of the art in digital preservation in
three ways:
• Infrastructure and tools for scalable preservation actions
• A framework for automated, quality-assured preservation Takeup
workflows
Stakeholders
• Integration of these components with policy-based automated Communities
Dissemination
preservation planning and watch Training Activities
Sustainability
SCAPE results will be validated in three large-scale testbeds: Testbeds
• Digital Repositories Corpora
Integration
• Web Content Benchmarking
Validation
• Research Data Sets
Cross-project Activities
The SCAPE Consortium brings together a Project Management
Technical Coordination
Platform
broad spectrum of expertise from Research Roadmap
Automation
• Memory institutions Workflows
Parallelization Preservation
Planning and Watch
• Data centres Virtualization Components
Quality Assurance
• Research labs Institutional Policies Scalable Components
Technical Watch Automation-ready
• Universities Automated Planning Tools
• Industrial firms
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6. SCAPE
SCAlable Preservation Environments
• SCAPE addresses critical challenges that have been identified by the
Commission and key stakeholders
• SCAPE results will enable organisations
• to keep pace with the rapid growth of digital collections by providing a new
highly scalable architecture and reducing the need for human intervention
• to help ensure that their preservation actions have been effective
• to fulfill their increasing regulatory obligations
• to reduce the risks to their digital material
• If successful, SCAPE will
• transform the manner in which content holders safeguard their digital content
• increase confidence in the long-term accessibility and integrity of their
collections, at the European, national, and organisational levels
• have a profound impact on the way that digital repositories are designed and
built in order to enable scalable preservation services
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