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During this year’s important event of Europeana Aggregators Forum (9-10 April 2025), Valentina Bachi from Photoconsortium delivered a presentation on both EUreka3D and EUreka3D-XR projects. The presentation went through EUreka3D project’s achievements with the developing of the EUreka3D Data … Continue reading
Explore two new source collections on Historiana, the online multimedia tool co-funded by the European Union that provides teachers with innovative, interactive resources to bring history to life and engage students. These collections feature 3D models digitised through the … Continue reading
The ECHOES Project Policy Event “Toward the Cultural Heritage Cloud” and the workshop “Onboarding communities into the Cultural Heritage Cloud” will take place in Brussels and online on 12 – 13 December 2024 and will officially launch the European Collaborative … Continue reading
Area: digital heritage
FICC 2018 provided a forum for researchers from both academia and industry to share their latest research contributions, future vision in the field and potential impact across industries. FICC2018 allowed attendees to exchange knowledge with the common goal of shaping … Continue reading
Julia Kim is the Digital Assets Specialist at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. So far, she has primarily used MediaConch to create reports for new and incoming born-digital video from the Civil Rights History Project and the DPX files from digitizing celluloid film. Continue reading
Digital preservation means taking precautions to ensure long-term access to digital content. It mitigates the risk of files becoming obsolete or unusable in the future. The PREFORMA tools help you validate incoming file formats and codecs against their standard specification, define custom acceptance criteria, and build an efficient ingest workflow. Download and try them from the PREFORMA Open Source Portal! Continue reading
For the second academic year, the E-Space MOOC “Creative with Digital Heritage” is accepting enrollments. Europeana Space was a EC-funded project about the creative reuse of digital cultural heritage, which concluded in March 2017 with “excellent” evaluation from the EC … Continue reading
The Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality conferences focus on the question: “How can tourism destinations succeed in attracting tourists while simultaneously engaging all stakeholders in contributing to the preservation of natural and cultural heritage?“ A special theme this year will be: … Continue reading
Marion is a video archivist at the Austrian Mediathek, the Austrian video and sound archive. Her main area of work is the digitization of analogue videos and quality control of video files entering the digital archive. The main use case for MediaConch is to check if files that were produced outside of the default workflow procedure meet the policy for the archival master. Continue reading
The latest version of veraPDF is now available to download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. This release includes new PDF information in the features report and automatic configuration of the features extractor when applying custom policy profiles. There are also a number of low level PDF fixes and improvements which are documented in the latest release notes. From September, veraPDF will make the transition from a funded project to a stand alone open source project. Continue reading
A new version of the DPF Manager has been released! There are several improvements in this update. The most significant one is the redesign of the reports section, where now it is easier (and much faster) to browse the analyzed reports, transforming between formats, and also converting a quick check to a full check. The global report has also been improved with a more visual and interactive panel. Download and try the new release on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal! Continue reading
CEPROQHA (NPRP9-181-1-036) is a cooperative research project between Qatar University and Brunel University (UK), funded by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) under the National Priorities Research Program (NPRP). As the State of Qatar transitions to a knowledge-based economy, it … Continue reading
This is the third in a series of interviews with people using MediaConch within their institutions. Kieran O’Leary has an intership with the Irish Film Archive within the Irish Film Institute, mostly working on code, workflows, metadata, digitisation, migration, and facilitating access to collections. He is using MediaConch’s GUI to check files delivered from vendors. MediaConch automates a lot of this work via local policy creation. Continue reading
