Important information should be kept accessible and reusable for years to come, regardless of the system used to store it. The eArchiving Initiative is funded by the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme and is operated by the E-ARK Consortium. The primary objective of this initiative is to promote sustainable eArchiving across Europe and provide access to E-ARK's open-source standards, specifications, tools, validation procedures, training resources, and outreach services.
The eArchiving Initiative builds upon the foundation laid by the eArchiving Building Block and its predecessor, the original E-ARK Project. [The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eArchiving Building Block was operated via two grants: E-ARK4ALL, Grant Agreement number: LC-00921441 CEF-TC-2018-15 eArchiving (2018-2019), and E-ARK3, Grant Agreement No. LC-01390244 CEF-TC-2019-3 E-ARK3, (2019-2021). The E-ARK project (2014-2017) was funded by the European Commission under the ICT Policy Support Programme (PSP) within Call 7 of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme, Grant number 620998.]
The first version of the eArchiving Reference Architecture was developed by the E-ARK Consortium in the scope of the E-ARK4ALL grant as part of the eArchiving Building Block program of the Commission. This second version has been developed by the E-ARK Consortium in the scope of the eArchiving Initiative.