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
Digital art and mental art We could say that digital art was born as conceptual art, since it finds its root in immateriality, and is immaterial because it exists only in thought: the object of art does not truly exist … Continue reading
Topic: media
What’s new in MediaConch 16.05, PREFORMA’s conformance checker for AV files, latest downloads, upcoming events and much more in the June 2016 edition of MediaConch newsletter. Register to the No Time to Wait! symposium on the standardization & use of FFV1 & Matroska in archives. Download MediaConch from PREFORMA Open Source Portal, try it and send us your feedback. We will use it to improve the software. Continue reading
The Digitisation Days are a major event in text digitisation field organised by the Succeed project and the IMPACT Centre of Competence. This event includes: the DATeCH (Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage) international conference; an exhibition of digitisation technology where leading companies will showcase state-of-the-art tools; panel discussions on the future of digitisation, IPR issues, etc. Continue reading
The 2016’s edition of the IMAGE and RESEARCH International Conference will be held in the Palau de Congressos at Girona from 17th to 18th of November. Four Workshops, related to the main areas of interest of the event, will anticipate the Conference, on 16th November. Continue reading
We are pleased to announce the latest release of veraPDF, the definitive, open source PDF/A validator. Version 0.14 features Transparency and Unicode character map validation in PDF/A-2 levels B and U. This is the first release of the final design phase which began on 19 April following the PREFORMA Project EC review at the Open Source Workshop. Please support our efforts by downloading and testing the software. Continue reading
The video clips of all the presentations of the PREFORMA Open Source Workshop are now available on the event website. The workshop, hosted by the National Library of Sweden on April 7, 2016, featured keynote presentations by representatives from the PREFORMA project and the open source community. Continue reading
After the redesign phase, a new version of the DPF Manager is available. Version 2.0 includes many new functionalities and improvements and is now ready to be downloaded on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. Everybody is invited to download the DPF Manager and test the latest release. Your feedback is essential to keep improving the software. Continue reading
The Major Stakeholder Conference (MSC) “Co-creating Agendas for Culture in Europe. Memory, Inclusion, Creativity” was held in Barcelona (Spain) on 11-12 May, 2016 in the framework of the CulturalBase project, funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program. The Major Stakeholder … Continue reading
The N.I.C.E. Award: The N.I.C.E. Award is an initiative by the “Network for Innovations in Culture and Creativity in Europe” (N.I.C.E.), which was launched in Dortmund in 2013 by the european centre for creative economy (ecce) with the backing of … Continue reading
Sweden’s majestic Royal Library Kungliga Biblioteket welcomed more than a hundred heritage professionals for the first public PREFORMA event, the Open Source Preservation Workshop – Serving the Cultural Heritage. All presentations are now available for download on the event website. Continue reading
For this edition of Who’s Using What, Gregory Markus looks towards the digital preservation challenges that GLAMs face. He interviewed two developers from the PREFORMA Project: Xavi Tarres from Easy Innova (who is working on DPF Manager, the conformance checker for TIFF images) and Jérôme Martinez from MediaArea (who is working on MediaConch, the conformance checker for MKV/FFv1 audiovisual files). Continue reading
