The document discusses the Open Preservation Foundation (OPF), which aims to address the lack of mature, production-ready digital preservation tools by developing open-source solutions. The OPF brings together major memory institutions, technology partners, and the digital preservation community. It will assure the development and maintenance of digital preservation tools and solutions, support relevant open-source initiatives through research and prototypes, and promote partnerships, adoption, and sustainability through collaboration, events and online resources.

1. Bram van derWerf

2. Why OPF?Today major memory institutions, despite being the major stakeholders and thought leaders in the field of long term access and digital preservation, suffer from fundamental lack of mature tools and production servicesCommercially available standard solutions do not fit the specific requirement for a long-term strategy while bespoke custom made solutions are too costly

3. Who are OPF members, partners and communityChartered Members (Not for Profit)Chartered Members (Others)Affiliate MembersTechnology PartnersOthers….

4. Digital Preservation and Long term access CommunityCharter Members Technology & Service Partners Partner InitiativesAffiliate Membersopen planetsfoundation

5. OPOPF COMMUNITYB Charter Members Major Libraries, Archives & R&D InstitutesbBOARDPartner Initiativese.g. DPC,DCC, Nestor,NDIIPP,NCDD, etcTechnology & Service Partnerse.g. IBM,Tessella,Oracle,HP, etc OPFAffilate MembersAcademic Research and Higher Education

6. OPF provides stewardshipAssure development & maintenance of a comprehensive DP suite (Requirements)R&D outcome, mature prototypes & demonstrators (Process e.g. RUP, SCRUM)Support relevant Open Source initiativesAcademic Research & Higher Education, work on an academic HE curriculum for DPPromote partnerships (technology & services business), take-up and sustain

7. Collaboration & EventsPractitioner Websitewww.openplanetsfoundation.org (August 2010)WikiExpert blogsDevelopers Collaboratory (October 2010)www.openplanetslabs.orgVersion management, issue tracking, continuous integration, peer reviewing, knowledge base/wikiUser/practitioner/developers conference (November 2010) -Requirement sessions for practitioners -Hackaton for developers