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The SECreTour Network is growing! A new collaboration has started between the SECreTour project and the UNESCO Chair in Anthropology of Health: Biosphere and Healing Systems. The UNESCO Chair at University of Genoa is dedicated to exploring the interconnections between … Continue reading
The SECreTour Network is growing! We are very glad to announce that Omnis Vision SA has joined the SECreTour Network of Common Interest. Omnis Vision SA is a strategic partner for the enhancement, management, and development of real estate assets … Continue reading
Topic: digital archive
A group of memory institutions met in Brussels to agree on the expected behavior and functionality of the tools to be developed in the coming years by the software suppliers that will be selected out of the procurement that will be launched by the project. The outcome of the workshop will be soon available on the PREFORMA website. Continue reading
The location of the exhibition is Palazzo Lanfranchi, a very prestigious exhibition centre, in an historical palace in the center of Pisa, on the Lungarno Galilei (the embankment of river Arno). Each photograph displayed in Palazzo Lanfranchi is printed with the most advanced printing techniques and on a very pure, cotton-based paper that enhances the photograph at its best. In order to attract the citizens to visit the exhibition and to engage the visitors, Collection Days are organized to digitize family photos and albums related to the timeframe of the project. Continue reading
In Pisa, at Palazzo Lanfranchi, from 11th April to 2nd June 2014, a great photographic and multimedia exhibition based on the most advanced digitization and printing technologies, telling the stories of our grandfathers. The exhibition is organized in the framework of the EU-funded project Europeana Photography. Continue reading
Archeomatica, an Italian multidisciplinary e-magazine about new technologies and Cultural Heritage, presents PREFORMA and the related Call for Tender to its readers in an article entitled “PREFORMA: gli standard del futuro per la conservazione dei dati digitali culturali”. Continue reading
Proposal for a workshop organised by PREFORMA in the frame of the EGI Community Forum in Helsinki. Aim of this event is to present to the whole digital preservation community – open source community, developers, standardization bodies and memory institutions – the new opportunities offered by the project and by the forthcoming call for tender. Continue reading
The meeting, organised by the Innovation Unit of the European Commission, represented a good opportunity to raise awareness of PREFORMA, collect information about good practices and find synergies with other running PCP projects. Continue reading
Researchers and practitioners from the PREFORMA project participated to the OFA event and at FOSDEM to present the project and to discuss challenges for memory institutions related to implementation of file formats. Continue reading
Aim of this workshop, organised by DCH-RP project, was to present the first concrete results of the cooperation between different projects aimed to the development of a joint registry of services and tools for the long-term preservation of digital data and to demonstrate how these services can be tested and used by memory institutions. Continue reading
PREFORMA project features in the January 2014 edition of the Pre‑Commercial Procurement newsletter, which presents an overview of the first Horizon 2020 funding for innovation procurement available at the moment, and upcoming events and latest news from EU funded PCP and PPI projects. Continue reading
