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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
Contemporary education, formal classrooms, museum educational programmes, lifelong learning are all increasingly embracing ‘the digital’. As more and more arts and culture artefacts become available in this digital space, it was only a matter of time before the two worlds, … 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
Procurement Week is a bi-annual, international conference, that aims to explore the many facets of Public Procurement such as Public Tendering, Business Development, Procurement Law and International Trade. ‘Procurement Week 2016: Bootcamp’, is an event that explores the Modernisation, Flexibility, and Simplification of the EU Procurement Directives and will be held at Bangor University on the 9th and 10th June. Continue reading
How Can the Public Sector Become an Agent of Innovation? As part of the preparatory work for the definition of the New eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020 the European Commission DG CONNECT has asked to PwC, Open Evidence and the Institute of Baltic Studies to organise a Scenario Workshop on the future of Open eGovernment Services. The event will take place in Brussels on the 31th of May 2016. Continue reading
“New Horizons for Cultural Heritage – Recalibrating relationships: bringing cultural heritage and people together in a changing Europe” is the Second Policy Seminar organised by the RICHES project to discuss how the project can provide insights to support evidence-based policymaking in Europe. The seminar comprised political updates by representatives from the European Parliament and the European Commission, the presentation of policy recommendations from the RICHES project and Round Table / World cafè style discussions aimed at providing ‘joined-up’ policy recommendations to be used in the definition of the H2020 work programme for 2018-2020. Continue reading
The International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS) is a long-standing international forum for researchers, practitioners from business and industry, enthusiasts, and students to present and discuss the latest trends, experiences, and concerns in the field of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). The 12th OSS Conference will take place in will take place in the city of Gothenburg, in 30 May – 02 June 2016. 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
