FILE – Electronic Language International Festival is now accepting project submissions and invites artists, researchers, creators, and developers to participate in its next edition. An international reference in the fields of art, technology, and innovation, FILE will take place in … Continue reading
The international conference “Cross-border cooperation in the era of challenges and transformation – space, energy, climate, culture” will be held on 4 March 2026 at the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, in Wrocław, Poland. The conference will explore key issues facing border regions, from … Continue reading
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Cultuur in Beeld (Culture in Focus) is an annual seminar organized by the Dutch Ministry of Instruction, Science and Culture, addressing the most relevant themes for the cultural sector. The 2016 edition in Rotterdam, on 7 December, was focused on … Continue reading
This event, organised by the European Commission on 17 November, addressed potential applicants for the first Calls under Horizon 2020 in the fields of ICT research & innovation supporting the Cultural and Creative Industries and Cultural Heritage. The plenary session … Continue reading
Presentations and photos of the PREFORMA Experience Workshop are now available online. Hosted at the Kulturforum in Berlin, the event featured keynote presentations by international experts in digital preservation, use cases and experiments of conformance checking at memory institutions and live demonstrations of the software developed by the three suppliers working in the project. Continue reading
Check out the latest release and the new improvements! Now you can detect and correct bit flip and incorrect segment sizes with a brand new fixer. Also, the implementation checker now uses more features of Matroska’s EBML Schema, the policy checker adds additional operators, the display of policy results is further optimized, and lastly, you can now use, create, and share public policies with the community! Continue reading
The latest version of veraPDF includes the first beta release of our purpose-built PDF parser and validation model. It can be used alongside the PDFBox parser to compare the results. In addition, veraPDF 0.26 has a new batch processor that produces multi-item reports. veraPDF 1.0 will be released in December marking the end of the PREFORMA prototyping phase. Please support our efforts by downloading and testing the software. Continue reading
The European Union is at yet another crossroad after the Brexit referendum’s results, the overall rise of the Far Right in several EU countries, while another migrant and refugee flows crisis is still looming. Indeed the EU once more needs an … Continue reading
DPFManager is the most advanced TIFF conformance checker for digital preservation that has been created and designed by a strong community of experts who are highly interested in file format validation for digital preservation. DPF Manager allows archivists to know the state of their TIFF images in terms of preservation. It validates the files with the main standards (Baseline 6, TIFF-EP, TIFF-IT), and additionally checks the conformance to the newest TIFF for Archival (TI/A) Recommendations (in process of ISO standardization). Continue reading
The ARIADNE Research Infrastructure final conference “Unlocking the Potential of Digital Archaeological Data” will be held in the beautiful Sala Luca Giordano in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence, Italy on Thursday 15th to Friday 16th December 2016. The Conference will … Continue reading
Europeana, the European digital library, just launched a new online exhibition, focused on the story and project of Leonardo’s monument to celebrate Francesco Sforza, the founder of the Sforza dynasty in Milan. In 7 chapters and enriched with interesting stories, … Continue reading
CREA is an European Network of Summer Academies with the aim to strengthen entrepreneurship in innovative sectors by using ICT and Creativity as levers. Objective is to select and support talented students, who have a real interest in becoming entrepreneurs. In CREA, students come in … Continue reading
