Good Knowledge and Information Management is essential for good government. The challenges of the digital era are complex and diverse: mimicking a paper-based model is doomed to failure. We need to develop radically new tools and techniques to support enhanced sense-making for information exploitation in the near-term and better long-term preservation and management of historically important material for the long-term.
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The aim of ARCHANGEL is to ensure the long-term sustainability of digital archives though the design, development and trialling of transformational new distributed ledger technology (DLT) to promote accessibility and ens...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Surrey
The ARCHANGEL project aims to ensure the long-term sustainability of digital archives and promote accessibility and integrity of content through the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT). The project addresses the challenges of migration of data between proprietary platforms and the need for long-term preservation and management of historically important material.
More and more government data are created in digital form. Emails have replaced letters, PDFs and Word documents have replaced paper memos, and audio/visual files are stored in governmental internal archives and in vario...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: Loughborough University
The LUSTRE project aims to improve access to government archival records in digital form by applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to digital archival records. While it may not fully answer the question of how to ensure the migration of data between proprietary platforms, it addresses the broader issue of improving access to government archival records.
The emergent European Data Economy relies on the availability of data as a basis for further innovation and exponential development of technologies, especially the development of trustworthy ‘made in Europe’ AI that refl...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: OXFORD SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
The project focuses on data governance, interoperability, and management, which are relevant to ensuring digital information remains accessible over time, but it does not specifically address the migration of data between proprietary platforms.