The LOTAR community gathered in Seattle, WA, from 16–19 September 2025 for a successful hybrid workshop attended by around 40 on‑site participants and more than 20 remote contributors. The sessions highlighted strong progress across all working groups and continued momentum in advancing long‑term digital data preservation standards. Significant achievements included the release of EN/NAS 9300‑210 […]

The international standardisation project LOTAR (Long-Term Archiving and Retrieval) has made significant progress: Two new documents have been published that further advance the long-term archiving of technical product data. EN9300-100 – New version available The revised version of EN9300-100 defines the general concepts and principles for the long-term archiving of 3D CAD information. It forms […]

Aircraft have very long lifecycles. There can be 80 years between the initial design for a new program and the end of life of the last one delivered. Throughout the product lifecycle, the data defined for archiving and retrieval must be provided in a standardized format that can be read and reused regardless of changes […]

A colorful mix of topics and participants with many results – this is how the joint meeting of the LOTAR project for long-term archiving in aviation with the MBx Interoperability Forum (MBx-IF) from March 10-13 can be briefly described. Significant progress can be reported on the topic of long-term archiving. In 2025, the team will […]

Standards are the foundation for successful collaboration within and across companies, but collaboration between standards is just as important to cover the entire digital thread. To achieve that several project groups met jointly in Darmstadt from 11-14 March. The LOTAR project used the face-to-face meetings to make progress on several new and updated documents of […]