Together with increased awareness of the problems surrounding digital preservation, initiatives are being launched to tackle these issues. Due to the wide range of this field, those projects cover various aspects of the very challenges.
The following sections introduce some well-known initiatives. First, organisations attempting to acquire and preserve digital material are presented. The archives cover a wide range of differing policies, concerning which documents will be included in the repository. The Internet Archive presented in Section 3.1 has a very comprehensive approach, yet, it depends on donations. Acquiring the data by own means, the Kulturarw3-project described in Section 3.2 follows a comprehensive policy as well. Contrary to this, the initiative of the German national library, DDB, and the Pandora-project, introduced in Sections 3.4 and 3.3 respectively, select their collection items carefully.
Trying to establish a common framework for national deposit libraries, the Nedlib-initiative is an international cooperation. The OAIS establishes a formal model, upon which the Cedars-project is based. This chapter concludes with a short overview of other initiatives in this field.