PERICLES project wins best poster award

PERICLES, the European FP7 research project coordinated by the Centre for e-Research in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, recently received the best poster award at the 9th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) held in San Francisco on 24-27 February 2014, in competition with a total of approximately 200 posters.

The PERICLES (Promoting and Enhancing Reuse of Information throughout the Content Lifecycle taking account of Evolving Semantics) consortium includes six academic institutions (King’s College London; the Universities of Borås, Göttingen, Liverpool and Edinburgh; the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas), a multinational corporation (Xerox), two SMEs (DOTSOFT in Greece and Space Applications Services in Belgium), and two non-academic public sector organisations (Tate and the Belgian User Service and Operation Centre).

The Greek partners DOTSOFT presented the PERICLES project, together with Belgian partners B.USOC from the Institut d’aéronomie spatiale de Belgique, to a very enthusiastic audience of young data archivists and curators from both science and humanities.

Pericles poster presentation at IDCC 2014, © Pericles consortium

The PERICLES focuses on long-term preservation of digital content to create a sustainable basis for future re-use and access in an evolving and constantly changing environment. The research approaches and technical solutions developed will be evaluated against domain specific requirements from user communities accessing complex digital content, specifically in art, media and scientific data archives, as represented by the PERICLES partners Tate and B.USOC. 

The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) is one of the most important digital curation events in the world, and with “change” being the key aspect of the research done in PERICLES, this year’s IDCC theme on “how data-driven developments are changing the world around us, recognising that the growing volume and complexity of data provides institutions, researchers, businesses and communities with a range of exciting opportunities and challenges” was a perfect venue for presenting the PERICLES goals and objectives.