EUROPE: Digital data preserved through CASPAR software programme
September 1st, 2010
By Emma Jackson
Researchers say they have secured the future of Europe's huge volumes of digital data, having created an open source software that will protect digital data from becoming unreadable or unusable because it is incompatible with newer technologies. This has been developed by the European Union (EU)-funded CASPAR (Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval) programme.
"Until now large volumes of electronic data such as official records, museum archives and scientific results have been unreadable or at risk ...
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