This paper presents the Open Archives Forum, an EC 5 Framework Accompanying Measure for supporting the dissemination of information about European activities that adopt an open-archives based approach. OAForum aims at building a framework where European and national initiatives that use this approach can share their experiences and co-ordinate the development of software tools and infrastructur...

Efforts to preserve content on the public Web have been effective at ensuring our collective digital heritage is not lost. However, these efforts put priority on the collective’s judgement of importance, often neglecting to capture individuals’ content due to additional scale, appropriateness, and technical restrictions. Individuals that take it upon themselves to preserve what they respectivel...