Welcome to E-ARK

The E-ARK project, which involved a number of European national archives, e-government agencies, digital preservation software developers and research institutions, aimed to synthesise best-practices from across Europe and develop a core set of interoperability specifications for archival operations. The project also updated a number of archival software components to meet the specifications, and carried out a number of operational pilots to verify the cross-border validity and interoperability of the specifications. After the successful conclusion of the E-ARK project in 2017, the European Commission included its outcomes into the CEF programme to become the basis of the eArchiving Building Block. Within CEF the initial specifications and open-source software components are being enriched with training and implementation guidance services. The mid-term vision of eArchiving is that within the next five years its specifications will be implemented throughout Europe across all sectors.

E-ARK Resources

E-ARK Project

E-ARK was a multinational big data pilot project that improved the methods and technologies of digital archiving, in order to achieve consistency on a Europe-wide scale.

E-ARK4ALL and E-ARK3

A consortium working with the European Commission’s Connecting Europe Facility to develop and maintain the eArchiving Building Block.

CEF eArchiving Building Block

The aim of eArchiving is to provide the core specifications, software, training and knowledge to help data creators, software developers and digital archives tackle the challenge of short, medium and long-term data management and reuse in a sustainable, authentic, cost-efficient, manageable and interoperable way.

DLM Forum

The DLM Forum is a vibrant community of public archives and interested parties from across government, commercial, academic and voluntary sectors who are active in information governance, including archives, records, document and information lifecycle management.

DILCIS Board

The Digital Information LifeCycle Interoperability Standards Board is an international group of experts committed to maintain and sustain maintain a set of interoperability specifications which allow for the transfer, long-term preservation, and reuse of digital information regardless of the origin or type of the information. More specifically, the DILCIS Board maintains specifications initially developed within the E-ARK Project

Knowledge Centre

The Knowledge Centre consist of a set of services that provide a comprehensive but simple and easily understood set of requirements for Information Governance. The requirements are elicited from existing reference documents.

About E-ARK Online

This is the landing page for E-ARK related projects and other activities. A general hub, gathering paths to all things about the E-ARK initiative.