From August 25–29, 2025, Seoul hosted the 30th CIPA Heritage Documentation International Symposium under the theme “Heritage Conservation from Bits: From Digital Documentation to Data‑driven Heritage Conservation.” Organized by CIPA—a longstanding international committee established in 1968 by ICOMOS (International Council … Continue reading
From 8th to 13th September 2025 Antonella Fresa, president of Photoconsortium and EUreka3D-XR Project Coordinator, took part to Digital Heritage 2025, the premier global forum where culture meets cutting-edge technology, hosted in Siena. With colleagues from Europeana Foundation, XRculture, 3DBigDataSpace … Continue reading
Topic: digital preservation
The University of Padova hosts the kick-off meeting of a new Pre-Commercial Procurement project co-funded by the European Commission under its FP7-ICT Programme to address the challenge of implementing good quality standardised file formats for preserving data content in the long term. The main objective of PREFORMA is to give memory institutions full control of the process of the conformity tests of files to be ingested into archives. Continue reading
The iPRES 2014 Coordinating Committee invites contributions of papers, posters, demonstrations, tutorials and workshops related to the increasingly broad topic of digital preservation. Deadline: 28 March 2014. Continue reading
The first DiXiT camp took place in Cambridge/London from Sunday, 27 April 2014 – Friday, 2 May 2014. Its programme included the fifth MMSDA course, short for Medieval and Modern Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. Continue reading
PREFORMA has been invited to a concertation meeting for ongoing PCP projects organised by the Innovation Unit of the European Commission. Three project representatives will attend the meeting to collect information about good practices and to bring up problems or questions. Continue reading
On March 5th, 2014 PREFORMA will organise a workshop in Brussels targeted to memory institutions 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. Continue reading
RICHES’ partner I2CAT (Internet and Digital Innovation in Catalonia, research organisation promoting research and innovation in advanced internet technology) organised a workshop in Barcelona, on “Mobile Apps and Augmented Reality”. Continue reading
EUDAT is inviting research communities, research projects and individual researchers to make use of its data services that are available at a European scale and is offering free resources and expertise to pilot collaboration projects as part of its Collaborative Data Infrastructure where users, community centres and large data centres collaboratively tackle data challenges. Continue reading
Immediately following the EuropeanaPhotography software seminar organized by partners GenCat and CRDI, a plenary meeting of the project was held in Barcelona on 30-31 January, again at the premises of Palau Moja. This plenary meeting included the official announce of the upcoming EuropeanaPhotography exhibition, opening in Pisa (Italy) in April 2014. Continue reading
On April 4th 2014 PREFORMA project will organise an Information Day to present the call for tender that will be launched as part of the Pre-Commercial Procurement. Participation is open to everybody who is interested to participate to the call and to become a PREFORMA supplier but will be subject to registration. Continue reading
The pan-European data network (GÉANT) has released in December 2013 a report titled “Enabling Users: Options for Joining eduGAIN”, which explores three options for adding services to eduGAIN to help decide which of them is best suited to a particular research community or case. Continue reading
