Jana Dittmann and Claus Vielhauer from UNIMD organised the special session at the "Securing Media for the Next Centuries: from Digital Watermarking, Fingerprinting and Hashing to Secure Archival Architectures" at the 16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2009), held 5-7 July 2009 in Santorini, Greece.

During this session the following SHAMAN partners presented:

- Dennis Nicholson and Milena Dobreva from University of Strathclyde (U.K.)presented "Beyond OAIS: Towards a Reliable and Consistent Digital Preservation Implementation Framework" (http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/12915/1/strathprints012915.pdf)

- Martin Mois, Claus-Peter Klas, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias L. Hemmje from Fern Universität Hagen (Germany) presented "Digital Preservation as Communication with the Future" (http://www.lgmmia.fernuni-hagen.de/bib/docs/Mois_etal_09.html.en)