Digital preservation researches - European situation summarizes the state of digital preservation research in Europe. It discusses how the majority of costs for digital projects are spent on initially creating digital materials rather than preserving them, even though preserving digital content over the long term requires significantly more resources. The document also references a model for understanding the different themes within digital preservation and provides context that this research is part of a larger project investigating a roadmap for digital preservation in Europe.

1. Digital preservation researches - European
situation
Rimvydas Laužikas
Institute of Library and Information Science, Vilnius
University, Lithuania
E mail: rimvydas.lauzikas@kf.vu.lt

2. Context
• This research is part of DPE project, “Research
roadmap”
• More information:
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/