Topic: preforma news

Results of the PREFORMA CfT published!

Here are the names of the suppliers who have been awarded a contract with PREFORMA to develop an open-source toolset for conformance checking of digital files (texts, images and AV), intended for long-term preservation in memory institutions. Continue reading


PREFORMA presented at ICA 2014 Conference in Girona

PREFORMA was presented to the almost 1000 attendees in one of the parallel sessions in the afternoon of Monday 13th of October by Antonella Fresa, Technical Coordinator, and Peter Pharow, Responsible of the first design phase. Continue reading


PREFORMA at SUCCEED interoperability workshop

Bert Lemmens represented PREFORMA at the Interoperability Workshop organised by the SUCCEED project to discuss best practices and possibilities for cooperation on a technical level between European Centres of Competence and Digital infrastructures. Continue reading


PREFORMA at PRESTO4U WORKSHOP

A presentation of PREFORMA has been delivered by Erwin Verbruggen at the workshop “Digital AV Archiving Workflows; Digitisation, Ingest, Preservation, Conversion, and Delivery” organised on 22 and 23 September 2014 in Copenhagen by the PRESTO4U project. Continue reading


PREFORMA at the EAGLE International Conference

A poster of PREFORMA has been presented at the International Conference on Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Digital Cultural Heritage in the Ancient World organised by the EAGLE project. The poster is also showcased in the Conference Digital Exhibition web page. Continue reading


PREFORMA presented at DCH-RP Final Conference

PREFORMA project has been presented during a workshop organised by DCH-RP (Digital Cultural Heritage – Roadmap for Preservation) on 22 September 2014 at the National Central Library of Rome, under the umbrella of the Italian EU Presidency. Continue reading


PREFORMA presented at JCDL/TPDL 2014

PREFORMA project has been hosted in the DCH-RP stall at the workshop on digital preservation sustainability on the EU policy level organised in London in the frame of the JCLD/TPDL 2014 Conference. Continue reading


MoU between PREFORMA and DAVID

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the two projects for the promotion and presentation of the respective results and for the organisation of joint events and activities, focusing in particular on the long term preservation of audiovisual content. Continue reading


MoU between PREFORMA and SUCCEED

A cooperation agreement has been signed between the two projects for the promotion and presentation of the respective results and the organisation of joint events and activities, focusing in particular on the use and quality check of common standards for digitisation and long term preservation of textual content. Continue reading


Long-term sustainability through OSS implementations of open file formats

This article gives some motivation for why open file formats are important to the EU and why open file formats and Open Source implementations are important for long-term sustainability.
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