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Planetarium - Planets Newsletter Issue 8

The Planets project is happy to announce its eighth newsletter, Planetarium. This newsletter features a spotlight on Preservation Planning and presents the emulation preservation strategy and also contains articles about how the Planets technology partners put Planets into practice. In addition you will find a presentation of the results from a Planets Briefing for suppliers and vendors in Brussels on 5-6 June 2009. The newsletter also contains a News round up and a list of Planets publications and presentations at events.

New version of Plato released

A new version of Planets Plato tool is available to download now. Version 2.1 of the web-based preservation planning tool incorporates a number of new features including: - A home screen providing a central point of entry - A redesigned user interface for objective trees - The option to define your policies once and use these policies in each preservation plan you create - Capacity to support 200MB of sample objects per plan - Integration of JHove, including a feature that supports visual evaluation of migration by comparing the original and migrated object side-by-side - Quality-aware migration services To learn more about the new features in Plato 2.1, please visit www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp/plato. To ask questions about Plato, please e-mail us at: plato@ifs.tuwien.ac.at Plato enables users to create and execute a digital preservation plan. It draws on Planets and third-party tools to identify the characteristics of digital objects, recommend the most appropriate preservation actions and compare objects before and after they have been preserved. To comment or ask a question about Planets, please e-mail us at: info@planets-project.eu

Planetarium - Planets Newsletter Issue 7

The Planets project is happy to announce the seventh newsletter, Planetarium.This newsletter features a spotlight on Characterisation and also contains articles about the recent Market Survey, how Planets tools can be integrated into Archives and Libraries as well as news on our upcoming training event in Sofia, which has been awarded a bursary by the CEI to assist the attendance of 15 delegates. In addition, you will find a list of Planets publications and presentations at events.