The Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services (PLANETS) project addressed core digital preservation challenges.
The primary goal for Planets was to build practical services and tools to help ensure long-term access to digital cultural and scientific assets.
The outputs of this European Sixth Framework Programme are, since 2010, sustained by the follow-on organisation, the Open Planets Foundation.
[1][2][3] Amongst its higher profile outputs, in 2010, PLANETS deposited a Time Capsule in the vaults of Swiss Fort Knox containing digital data along with instructions on how to retrieve and decode it.
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