University of Urbino joins USA NPACI international affiliates programmeUrbino 29 November 2000 The Research Institute for the Management of the Archives and Libraries at the University of Urbino in Italy joined NPACI. It will collaborate with NPACI partners on models for the long-term preservation and access to electronic records through the Data Intensive Computing DICE thrust area and XML technologies.
DICE thrust area partners are collaborating with the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration NARA on the development of technology to support persistent digital archives. The collaboration with the Institute in Urbino will help create international standards for persistent archives. The Institute in Urbino will act as the lead institution in a partnership of Italian organizations: the National Archives of Italy, the National Association of Italian Archivists, the Rome Research Consortium's Center for Methodologies and Applications for Historical Archives, and the Association Archilab Laboratory for the Promotion of the Archival Research.
The project includes identification of the functional requirements to guarantee maintenance across time of the integrity and authenticity of electronic records and their contexts. This same technology will be used within NPACI to support persistent digital libraries for scientific collections. Activities will include development of rule-based manipulation systems that operate on XML information models.
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