Added on 27 January 2016


The DPC is delighted to invite members to join a webinar on Wednesday 17th February 1400-1500 with the PERICLES project.

PERICLES is a 4-year EU-funded RTD project (Feb 2013 – Jan 2017). This webinar will briefly outline the key concepts that are guiding the PERICLES research and development and introduce you to notions of “digital ecosystem”, “model-driven approach”, “scenario-based testbeds” and “sheer curation”. The overarching aim of PERICLES is to propose a novel approach on how to manage change in digital environments, taking it beyond the challenges of technological obsolescence, with the aim of ensuring long-term availability of digital information. The project outcome will be a testbed demonstration of the overall approach, which by its very nature does not aspire to constitute a system in itself, but describes means and deploys tools that support change management in digital environments. Most of the tools and their integration into a testbed are still work in progress. Two tools that the project developed first, the PET and the PeriCAT, were needed early on for substantiating and informing other more complex components of the project. However, they are also effective as stand-alone tools, applicable both for preservation and other purposes.

The PET tool is a framework for extracting useful information from the environment where digital objects are created and modified. The extracted information supports object use and reuse.The PeriCAT tool is a framework of Information Encapsulation techniques, which can be used to aggregate information, such as those extracted by PET. It supports the user in the selection of the best encapsulation approach based on the scenario under consideration. By the end of the session, participants will have:

  • a clear impression of the PERICLES project research
  • a basic understanding of the use of the tools and their use cases
  • knowledge about the relevant documentation

Interested? Here's what to to next:

  • The webinar will use the DPC's Webex platform
  • Registration is not necessary for DPC members, but if you want to reserve a place, email
  • To join by PC, the webinar open this link at 1355 on Feb 17th
  • To join by phone, dial +44 (0)203 478 5289 and give the meeting number 236 975 395
  • The webinar will be recorded and available to DPC members afterwards