At the LOTAR Q2/2026 online workshop, held 22-25 June, significant progress was achieved across multiple workgroups, further strengthening LOTAR’s role as the leading industry initiative for long-term archiving and reuse of engineering data. Key milestones included the advancement of several standards toward publication, notably the continued development of PLM Part 200 Edition 2, the external […]

As part of the EN/NAS9300 series of standards, the LOTAR Basic and Common Parts Working Group are developing a new recommended practices document concerning metadata requirements for a LOTAR archival package, which will be published as Part 021 of the EN/NAS 9300 series of standards. The LOTAR standards are developed from the Open Archival Information […]

The LOTAR Q1 2026 workshop, held in March in North Charleston, USA, brought together a strong international community of experts—around 40 participants onsite and over 20 online—to advance global standards for long-term data archiving and interoperability. A key outcome of the meeting was the continued progress across multiple LOTAR workstreams, demonstrating the initiative’s growing impact […]

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 […]