Digital Preservation has evolved into a specialized, interdisciplinary research discipline #R##N#of its own, seeing significant increases in terms of research capacity, results, but also #R##N#challenges. However, with this specialization and subsequent formation of a dedicated subgroup #R##N#of researchers active in this field, limitations of the challenges addressed can be observed. #R##N#Digital preservation research may seem to react to problems arising, fixing problems that exist #R##N#now, rather than proactively researching new solutions that may be applicable only after a few #R##N#years of maturing. #R##N# #R##N#Recognising the benefits of bringing together researchers and practitioners with various #R##N#professional backgrounds related to digital preservation, a seminar was organized in Schloss #R##N#Dagstuhl, at the Leibniz Center for Informatics (18-23 July 2010), with the aim of addressing #R##N#the current digital preservation challenges, with a specific focus on the automation aspects #R##N#in this field. The main goal of the seminar was to outline some research challenges in digital #R##N#preservation, providing a number of “research questions” that could be immediately tackled, #R##N#e.g. in Doctoral Thesis. The seminar intended also to highlight the need for the digital #R##N#preservation community to reach out to IT research and other research communities outside the #R##N#immediate digital preservation domain, in order to jointly develop solutions.
['Jean-Pierre Chanod', 'Vittore Casarosa', 'Milena Dobreva', 'Andreas Rauber', 'Seamus Ross']
10291 Abstracts Collection -- Automation in Digital Preservation