[InetBib] Zukunft der Langzeitarchivierung in Grossbritannien

[Torsten Reimer <torsten.reimer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Liebe Listenteilnehmer,

im Kontext der Diskussion um Langzeitarchivierung, digitale Repositorien 
und Kompetenzen in diesem Umfeld duerfte folgende Meldung ueber die 
Zukunft des britische Arts and Humanities Data Service von Interesse sein.

Beste Gruesse,
Torsten Reimer

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Subject: AHRC announcement on grant applications and the AHDS
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 15:57:36 +0100
From: Berenice Ortega <borteg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Berenice Ortega <borteg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: AHDS-HISTORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

AHRC Announcement, 14th May 2007

The AHRC has announced important changes in its policy for grant 
applicants, advising them that it has decided to cease funding the AHDS 
from April 2008.  The AHRC has elected to retain a data service in the 
area of Archaeology and is in negotiation with the ADS in York.  Details 
of the impact on grant applicants is outlined on the AHRC website at:

http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/news/news_pr/2007/information_for_applicants_to_AHRC_june_deadline.asp

The AHRC has stated that: "Council believes that Arts and Humanities 
researchers have developed significant IT knowledge and expertise in the 
past decade. The context within which the AHDS was initially supported 
by the AHRC has changed. Much technical knowledge is now readily 
available within HEIs, either from IT support services or from 
academics. Much that generally can be safely assumed now, for example 
that web sites can be put together and run effectively for the duration 
of a project, could not be assumed ten years ago. Council believes that 
long term storage of digital materials and sustainability is best dealt 
with by an active engagement with HEIs rather than through a centralised 
service."

The AHDS has over the eleven years it has been in operation built up 
significant expertise and experience in all aspects of data creation, 
technical, content and metadata standards, curation, preservation, and 
dissemination of complex research data, much of which is published 
on-line.  It also has significant expertise in building and managing 
repository infrastructures to ensure the sustainability, preservation 
and long-term access to research data.

The host institutions of the AHDS believe that this expertise is 
extremely valuable to the wider research community and will be working 
with the Director, Heads of AHDS Centres, and staff of the AHDS, to 
develop a strategy for the future direction of the AHDS that ensures 
this expertise remains available to the research and repositories 
communities for the long term.

Further details will be announced over the summer.


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Torsten Reimer
Senior Research Project Coordinator
AHRC ICT Methods Network
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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