Networking session at the EGI CF 2014

Report of the session organised by the project in Helsinki

Posted on: 22 May 2014

Share

Bert-Lemmens_PACKED_MBThe networking session organised by PREFORMA in the frame of the EGI Community Forum in Helsinki presented to the interested audience the new opportunities offered by the pre-commercial-procurement launched by PREFORMA.

The aim of the call for tender, which will be published by the end of May, is the development and deployment an open source software licensed reference implementation for file format standards aimed for any memory institution (or other organisation with a preservation task) wishing to check conformance with a specific standard. This reference implementation will consist of a set of modular tools, which will be validated against specific implementations of specifications of standards relevant to the PREFORMA project and used by the European memory institutions for preserving their different kind of data objects. In order to demonstrate effectiveness (and refine) these tools, they will be developed in an iterative process with multiple releases and with a number of experiments with ‘real’ data sets (files) from memory institutions during each iteration. Media types covered by the tender are: documents, images, audio-visual records.

 

Here below are the presentations that were delivered during the session:

  • PREFORMA networking session: topics, open issues & new challenges when moving from traditional to digital curatorship (download PDF)
  • Introduction to the PCP Procedure (Borje Justrell, Riksarkivet, download PDF)
  • How to participate to the tender (Antonella Fresa, Promoter Srl, download PDF)
  • The implementation phases: design, prototyping and testing (Peter Pharow, Fraunhofer, download PDF)
  • Open source projects (Bjorn Lundell, University of Skovde, download PDF)
  • Challenge brief (Bert Lemmens, Packed, download PDF)

 

For more details about the PREFORMA call for tender please visit the Information Day webpage on our blog, which contains the full version fo the presentations mentioned above, the video recordings of the whole event and other useful material.

 

preforma_cscAfter the session, the representatives of PREFORMA reached CSC – IT Center for Science for a meeting with people involved with the Finnish Digital Library, to present the project and to discuss about how PREFORMA can help to improve the digital preservation service of the National Digital Library and of other Finnish memory institutions.

 

For further information on the PREFORMA project visit the PREFORMA Website and the PREFORMA Blog.

 

Visit the PREFORMA Blog

Visit the PREFORMA Website

Leave a Reply

Related Articles

Networking for Digital Preservation
Interview with Claudio Prandoni, PREFORMA's Communication Coordinator, who has organised the digital preservation networking session that will be held in Helsinki on May 21st, 2014 in the frame of the EGI Community Forum.
Open Dialogue for the preparation of the PREFORMA tender
PREFORMA aims to ensure the establishment of a process of Open Dialogue between the memory institutions and the technology providers who develop the software. The memory institutions will define the functional requirements of the tender based on the outcome of the Open dialogue.
PREFORMA website and blog launched!
The website contains all information relevant to the project, including objectives, partners, contact persons, activities, outcomes, events, publications, as well as information on the tender and how to join the network. The project has simultaneously released the tagline that will represent the project together with the logo: Future Memory Standards.
PREFORMA @ IPRES 2016
PREFORMA's proposals for a workshop ("Quality standards for preserving digital cultural heritage") and a talk ("Status of CELLAR: Update from an IETF Working Group for Matroska and FFV1") have been both accepted at IPRES 2016, the longest standing digital preservation conference in the world, bringing together key theorists, researchers and practitioners to explore the latest trends, innovations, policies and practices in digital preservation.