Communication in the digital context is more fragile than appears. Process requires sender and receiver using compatible technologies which in turn that evolve quickly, differently and continuously. How to maintain the ability to interpret and display in the future information that is understood today?

Prosperity for future generations is linked to keeping value of today’s digital assets by granting proper access to digital content in the future. In this regard, Digital Preservation can be thought of as communication with the future.

The SHAMAN project develops and tests a next generation, long term digital preservation framework including systems and tools for analysing, ingesting, managing, accessing and reusing information objects and data across libraries and archives. It comprises the definition of the SHAMAN Theory of Preservation integrating the analysis, ingestion, management, access to and reuse of information objects across distributed repositories. The data preservation capabilities offered secure the authenticity and integrity of data objects through time.

During the third year of the Project SHAMAN Consortium has been focused in continuing advance and in certain cases completion of the components of the SHAMAN Framework and their inclusion into the Integration & Demonstration Subprojects (ISP). In parallel, we have upgraded our activities towards the outside of the Consortium. Both scientific and business oriented dissemination and outreach activities have maintained good progress and we have incorporated the first third party oriented Training event, as well as the evaluation by third parties of our first set of Demonstrators.

The SHAMAN Project is a Large Integrated Project co-financed by the European Union within the Seventh Framework Programme.