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On 10th and 11th March representatives of partners of the SECreTour project met in Lugano to visit the places of the pilot about Monte San Giorgio. This is a very special place, full of cultural heritage, environamental and historic excellence, … Continue reading
The SECreTour Network is growing! Europeana empowers the cultural heritage sector in its digital transformation. It develops expertise, tools and policies to embrace digital change and encourage partnerships that foster innovation. It makes it easier for people to use cultural … Continue reading
Topic: museum & library information systems
The latest version of veraPDF is now available for download in the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. veraPDF is building the definitive, file-format validator for all parts and conformance levels of ISO 19005 (PDF/A). This version contains several feature enhancements (conformance checker, command line, and test corpus) as well as some bug fixes. This marks the end of the PREFORMA project’s first re-design phase. Continue reading
by Lieke Ploeger, Open Knowledge Foundation. OpenGLAM has just released a case study on the open data release last year of the York Museums Trust. The study was written as part of the Open Knowledge Foundation involvement in Europeana Space … Continue reading
This 2015 report provides analysis on the period 2013-2015, giving a detailed sense of how the picture is changing for arts and cultural organisations. It is based on a survey taken by over 900 research participants in UK. This year’s report shows that … Continue reading
This webinar will widen the conversation to include those who were unable to attend IPRES, provide a summary of key concepts, but most importantly, provide an opportunity to join efforts with BenchmarkDP, OPF and the PREFORMA Project to establish an initial set of high-interest scenarios for benchmarking and identify opportunities for the community for future collaboration. Continue reading
Between 20 and 30 January 2016, a team of representatives of the PREFORMA project visited the three consortia that are currently working in the prototyping phase: veraPDF, Easy Innova and MediaArea.net. Aim of the visits is to better know each other, analyse the current status of the three open source projects and start future possible collaborations. Continue reading
On 12-14 October 2015 the annual meeting of German Museums Association took place at Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik. The event was attended by professionals in the museums and museum documentation sector and it was a huge gathering of about 230 attendees; a perfect … Continue reading
Immersive and Emotional Museum Design – What is the role of emotions in designing the 21st century museums? Emotion, involvement and participation: key issues that are increasingly important and decisive in the context of the new trends related to museums of … Continue reading
Discover the new features included in the latest release of MediaConch, the forthcoming cooperation with Artefactual team to integrate MediaConch into their Archivematica software during the upcoming year, the ongoing work towards the standardization of Matroska and FFV1, and the next appointments. MediaArea is eager to build a community of collaborators and testers to participate in and use the results of the project. Continue reading
Version 0.8 is the latest release of veraPDF conformance checker for PDF/A. It features a re-designed command line interface (CLI) for validation and feature extraction. All interested users are invited to download and test the software from the PREFORMA Open Source Portal and report possible problems, issues or suggestions to the project’s GitHub issue tracker. Your feedback is important, it will contribute to improving the software. Continue reading
A new agreement has been signed between PREFORMA and BenchmarkDP to explore how the methodologies and approaches of BenchmarkDP could be useful in PREFORMA in establishing an objective frame of reference for the evaluation of the conformance checkers, and how the practical challenges in PREFORMA can inform the work in BenchmarkDP. The cooperation kicked-off during a workshop organised by BenchmarkDP in the framework of IPRES 2015. Continue reading
