by Carlo Meghini (CNR), 2013

1. PRELIDA
An introduction
Carlo Meghini
ISTI CNR, Pisa

2. Preserving Linked Data
Digital
Preservation
Linked
Data
need
need

3. Outline
• PRELIDA
• Objectives
• Working Group members’ role
• The global picture

4. PRELIDA
PREserving LInked DAta
• FP7 Coordination and support action
• ICT-2011.4.3 Digital Preservation
• Start date: January 1st, 2013
• Duration: 24 Months
• Funding: 770k

5. Beneficiaries
• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
– Carlo Meghini (Coordinator)
• Alliance for Permanent Access
– David Giaretta
• University of Huddersfields
– Grigoris Antoniou
• Universitaet Innsbruck
– Dieter Fensel

6. Beneficiaries (cont.)
• Europeana Foundations
– Antoine Isaac
• STI International
– Alice Carpentier

7. The context
• Data economy
• Linked Data movement
– need to preserve Linked Data
• Digital preservation
– needs Linked Data
– faces new challenges by Linked Data
• So far, little or no interaction between the two
communities

8. Outline
• PRELIDA
• Objectives
• Working Group members’ role
• The global picture

9. Objectives
Bridge the LD and DP communities for
• making the LD community aware of the
existing DP results
• making the DP community aware of the
challenges posed by LD
– intrinsic features of Linked Data, including their
structuring, interlinking, dynamicity and
distribution.

10. Objectives in detail
• collect, organize and publish use cases related
to the long-term access to LD
• create a comprehensive state of the art on LD
and DP technologies
• set up a technology observatory
• bring together scientists and stakeholders for
identifying relevant challenges and paths for
addressing them in the near future
• draw attention of standardization bodies

11. Outline
• PRELIDA
• Objectives
• Working Group members’ role
• The global picture

12. Working Group members’ role
Resources to achieve the objectives:
• Working Group, that is you
– stakeholders
– academia
– companies
– standardization bodies

13. Tools
• Workshops
– 3 of them
• On-line platform
– Communication & Collaboration
• Dissemination activities
– portal
– workshop reports or proceedings
– links with relevant projects & organizations
– summer schools

14. Expectations from WG members
• Detailed agenda forthcoming (end of June)
• Working Group
– Membership
– Agenda
– Review (end 2013)

15. Expectations from WG members (cont.)
• Workshops
– This workshop
• present results, projects, ideas
• discuss others’ results, projects, ideas
• contribute to the final report
– Midterm workshop (spring 2014)
• Help defining the scientific structure
• Participate and contribute
– Consolidation & dissemination workshop (end 2014)
• Same as above

16. • Use cases
– provide or help us getting relevant use cases
– collaborate in organizing the use cases
• Technology observatory
– suggest relevant initiatives
• State of the art
– initial (end 2013)
– consolidated (end 2014)
Expectations from WG members (cont.)

17. • Roadmap
– analysis of limitations of DP for preserving LD (Feb.
2014)
– initial roadmap (Aug. 2014)
– consolidated roadmap (end 2014)
• Standardization
– suggest what std should be affected how
• Summer School (Oct. 2014)
– suggest structure, lecturers
• Dissemination
Expectations from WG members (cont.)

18. Outline
• PRELIDA
• Objectives
• Working Group members’ role
• The global picture

19. The global picture