Minerva Europe

Starting from October 2006, the MINERVA Project is enlarged to MINERVA EC: MInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation, eContentplus – Supporting the European Digital Library. MinervaEC is a Thematic Network in the area of cultural, scientific information and scholarly content. The Consortium brings together stakeholders and experts from all over Europe, capitalising the results achieved by the previous Minerva …

Digital Curation Centre

The Digital Curation Centre is the UK’s leading hub of expertise in curating digital research data. Anyone who can benefit from storing, managing and protecting digital data can turn to the DCC for expert advice and practical help. Effective data management throughout the research lifecycle will ensure that data will continue to work for you as productively as the research …

EPOCH Network of Excellence in Open Cultural Heritage

EPOCH is a network of about a hundred European cultural institutions joining their efforts to improve the quality and effectiveness of the use of Information and Communication Technology for Cultural Heritage. Participants include university departments, research centres, heritage institutions, such as museums or national heritage agencies, and commercial enterprises, together endeavouring to overcome the fragmentation of current research in this …

Digital Preservation – The National Archives

The National Archives is tackling the challenges of digital preservation, ensuring continued access to digital information in the future, created by UK government. This is its website on digital preservation. The NA play an active role in storing and preserving digital material created by UK government. The preservation of digital records presents a number of challenges because the equipment and …

Accidental Wow Defect Evaluation Using Sinusoidal Analysis Enhanced by Artificial Neural Networks

A method for evaluation of parasitic frequency modulation (wow) in archival audio is presented in this paper, published in the PrestoSPACE project. The proposed approach utilizes sinusoidal components as their variations are highly correlated with the distortion variations. The sinusoidal components are extracted from audio signal by means of sinusoidal modeling procedures being often severely distorted and in case of …

Keeping Research Data Safe 2

The first Keeping Research Data Safe study (Beagrie, Chrusczcz and Lavoie, JISC 2008) made a major contribution to understanding of long-term preservation costs for research data by developing a cost model and indentifying cost variables for preserving research data in UK universities. This aim of this follow-on project (2009/2010) was to provide a larger body of material and evidence against which existing …