The E-ARK Foundation is a consortium of partners running the eArchiving Initiative to provide core specifications, software, training and knowledge to help organisations and people to preserve information for the long term.
The eArchiving Initiative was run in cooperation with the European Commission’s E-ARK programme until the end of September 2025 and has since been operating under the DLM Forum.
The eArchiving Initiative was originally developed through a series of European Commission–funded projects: the E-ARK project (2014–2017), followed by E-ARK4ALL (2018–2019), which established the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eArchiving Building Block Core Services Platform, and E-ARK3 (2019–2021), which finalised the eArchiving Building Block. The eArchiving then initiative was run in cooperation with the European Commission’s E-ARK programme until the end of September and has since been operating under the DLM Forum.
Recent updates
- DLM Forum Members’ Meeting 2025 in Copenhagen. November 17, 2025
- Enabling Archival Information Packages Versioning & Delta AIPs with Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) July 23, 2025
- Archiving databases: Why, what and how? June 20, 2025
- Preserving digital foundations with eArchiving May 14, 2025
- The impact of AI on digital archiving processes – A practical demonstration of AI solutions April 17, 2025