E-ARK Final Report

Between 2014 and 2017 the E-ARK project brought together a consortium of five European national archives, five leading research institutions, three systems providers, two government institutions, and two membership organisations to work on the development and implementation of the tools, standards, and administrative processes required to support digital archiving. The project exceeded its objectives and achieved significant results in numerous areas. In particular, it met all ten milestones; produced all 31 deliverables (plus some extra) http://www.eark-project.com/resources/project-deliverables ; was assessed as excellent in the final year review; and was dubbed a “European Showcase Project” by the Project Officer, Alina Senn, together with the two external project reviewers Adrian Brown (Parliamentary Archives, UK), and Hannes Kulovits, (Austrian National Archives)[1]. Finally, robust measures were adopted to sustain the project outputs, which are now listed by category

Integrating e-government systems with digital archives: Paper - iPES 2014 - Melbourne

While interoperability between active e-government systems has been a significant area of work during the last decade, the fact that much of this information needs to be preserved for the long-term after the initial creation has been ignored, and the re-use of data has been of secondary concern. This paper looks into the needs of long-term preservation of digital-born e-government data and describes how the EC-funded E-ARK project proposes further actions to address the challenge in a cost-effective manner