Planets

Planets is an acronym for Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services. Planets is a four-year €15 million project co-funded by the European Commission. The project has developed a set of tools and services that will enable organizations to preserve their digital content for the long-term.

It is being delivered by 16 institutions in Europe which include national libraries, archives and technology and research companies: the British Library, National Library of the Netherlands, Austria and Denmark, State and University Library of Denmark; National Archives of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Switzerland; Universities of Freiburg, Glasgow, Vienna and Cologne and IT research institutes: IBM, Microsoft Research, Austrian Institute of Technology and Tessella Technology & Consulting.