The Planets Testbed is a freely available and easy-to-use controlled environment in which users can experience and compare different preservation tools and approaches through their Web browser. The Planets approach of a service-oriented architecture makes preservation tools available on heterogeneous platforms and in well-defined and controlled surroundings. The tools are given a Web service wrapper which exposes certain aspects of their functionality through a standardized vocabulary and therefore allows users to access them through the Testbed's Web-based interface

View a list of the organisations involved in the creation of the Testbed

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Partners who contributed to Testbed Development

	The Austrian National Library leads the Testbed subproject through the TB1 workpackage and manages workpackage TB4 - Coordination of external experiments and plan assessment.
	Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) manages the development and maintenance of the Testbed software and the Testbed Central Instance as leader of the TB2 workpackage.
	The National Archives of the Netherlands leads the TB3 workpackage, which handles the Management and Execution of Tests and Experiments.
	Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) co-developed the Testbed software.
	The British Library co-developed the Testbed software.
	The University at Cologne compiled and documented the Testbed Corpora and contributes to the management of the Testbed Helpdesk.
	The National Library of the Netherlands manages the Testbed Helpdesk
	Vienna University of Technology contributes to the TB4 workpackage.