Digital meets Culture

Paris, 27 September - 1 October 2015

IASA 2015 Annual Conference

The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) announces its 2015 annual conference to be hosted 27 September through 1 October at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, in “La Ville-Lumière”, Paris, France. IASA welcomes all who manage and care for the world’s sound and audiovisual heritage to come together in Paris, the enchanting city of light, where we will explore innovative and tested solutions to contemporary issues that face us all.

In reference to Dumas’s Three Musketeers, and in honour of hosting a conference in this centre for knowledge and national heritage, the 2015 Annual IASA Conference will boast the theme:

All for One – One for All: Common Concerns – Shared Solutions.

We invite one and all to the Bibliothèque nationale de France on 27 September through 1 October 2015 to discuss these sub-themes:

Archives without walls — semantic networks and born digital information
Organizing knowledge
Legal deposit
Archive workflows
Selection — acquisition, preservation, and access
Collaborative description
Obsolescence

The programme will include Papers, Tutorials and Practical Workshops.

The paper “MediaConch: An open source audiovisual file conformance checker” has been accepted and will be presented by Hermann Lewetz of Austria Mediathek on behalf of MediaArea’s team at IASA in Paris.

For further information visit the Conference website.

Vienna, 7-10 October 2015

FIAT/IFTA conference

“Audiovisual Culture, a bridge to the future”

The 2015 FIAT/IFTA World Conference will take place in Vienna from October 7 until October 10.

Tessa Fallon will present FFV1 as a representative of the PREFORMA / MediaArea team.

Audiovisual Culture is in all places and activities and our society uses and generates an increasing number of content. The more audiovisual archives interact with society and internet, the more questions arise on how to advance, which decisions to take and how to maintain the spirit of archiving in an ever-changing environment.

This year’s conference will provide a unique occasion in which archives can discuss & learn about the many challenges and innovations for archives in their quest towards the future.

Different aspects of the archives life, use and potential value will be presented permitting participants to grasp what has been done and what we will be able to do in the future.

For more information visit the official website.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, 2-6 November 2015

12th International Conference on Digital Preservation

iPRES is held on a rotating basis between Asia/Oceania, North America and Europe.

In November 2015, the School of Information and Library Science and the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will co-present the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation. This premier event brings together key theorists, researchers and practitioners to explore the latest trends, innovations, policies and practices in digital preservation.

iPRES2015 draws participants from around the world and from leading institutions, projects and initiatives currently working in this domain. The last time this meeting was held in the United States was in October of 2009 in San Francisco. With so many years since the last US venue we expect approximately 300 participants to this conference.

The conference features key notes, conference sessions, workshops, tutorials, poster sessions and a series of ancillary social activities.

For further information visit the Conference website.

Workshop: Using Open-Source Tools to Fulfill Digital Preservation Requirements

ArchivesSpace, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina, Educopia Institute and Internet Archive are running a workshop called “Using Open-Source Tools to Fulfill Digital Preservation Requirements” to be held in the framework of iPRES2015 on Friday, November 6.

Bengt Neiss from the National Library of Sweden will participate to present the PREFORMA project and to co-create a banchmarking template for the PDF use case.

The workshop offers a space to talk about open-source software for digital preservation, and the particular challenges of developing systems and integrating them into local environments and workflows. Topics will include current efforts and grant-funded initiatives to integrate different open source archival software tools; the development of workflows involving multiple open source tools for digital preservation, forensics, discovery and access; and the identification of gaps which may need filled by these or other tools.

Interested parties should submit a short summary (one page maximum) of a demonstration or case study they would like to present. These contributions will serve as the basis for the tool demonstration and case study portions of the day. The workshop organizers will serve as panelists during the third portion of the day and facilitators for break-out group discussions.

Please send your submissions to: oss4pres@unc.edu by Friday, October 9.

Submission will be reviewed to ensure relevant to the themes of the event. If you would like to be considered for the workshop in time to register for iPRES at the early bird rate (before October 1), please make your submission as soon as possible, and we will do our best to review it quickly.

Portland, Oregon, 18-21 November 2015

AMIA 2015 Conference

AMIA is a nonprofit international association dedicated to the preservation and use of moving image media. AMIA supports public and professional education and fosters cooperation and communication among the individuals and organizations concerned with the acquisition, preservation, description, exhibition, and use of moving image materials.

The annual AMIA Conference is the largest gathering of motion picture and recorded sound archivists and interested professionals. More than 550 annual attendees include members and colleagues from the world’s major media, library, university, military and other institutions.

The AMIA annual conference provides an opportunity for colleagues and those interested in the field to meet, share information and work together. For newcomers to this vibrant, dynamic and committed community, networking with other AMIA members and industry professionals is invaluable for professional development. AMIA conference registration includes participation in all regular sessions and screenings and some special events.

The paper “Validate Your Digital Assets: PREFORMA, MediaConch and File Compliance” has been accepted and will be presented by Dave Rice (MediaArea) and Erwin Verbruggen (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision).

For more information about the conference, go to www.amiaconference.net.

For more information about AMIA, events and membership, go to www.AMIAnet.org.

Vilnius, 25 - 27 November 2015

eChallenges e-2015 Conference & Exhibition

PREFORMA project has been invited to disseminate its results and papers via the eChallenges e-2015 Conference & Exhibition.

Supported by the European Commission, the 25th annual eChallenges e-2015 Conference takes place in Vilnius, Lithuania from 25 – 27 November. Focused on Applied ICT addressing major Societal Challenges, and showcasing strategic keynote presentations, technical and policy papers, case studies and workshops, eChallenges brings together senior representatives from leading commercial, government and research organisations around the world to share knowledge and experience, lessons learnt, good practice and innovation.

The core Thematic Priorities for eChallenges e-2015 are:

Applied ICT addressing Societal Challenges

ICT-related Entrepreneurship and Innovation
eHealth and mHealth
eGovernment, eParticipation & eDemocracy
ICT4D
eInclusion
Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage
Technology Enhanced Learning and ICT Skills
Intelligent Content and Semantics
Societal Implications of Technology

Emerging Technologies & Infrastructures

Future Internet & Smart Cities including FIWARE applications
eInfrastructures & Smart Grid
Collaborative Open Innovation and Living Labs
Cloud Computing
Mobile Applications
Security and Identity Management

Important Deadlines

Submission deadline for Extended Abstracts: 30 April 2015

Acceptance decision: 31 May

Submission of full paper: 30 June

For more information visit the Conference website at www.echallenges.org

Warsaw, 3-4 December 2015

EUscreenXL Final International Conference

EUscreenXL announces its second and final international conference to be hosted on the 3 and 4 December 2015 at the National Audiovisual Institute in Warsaw, Poland.

Content in Motion: Curating Europe’s Audiovisual Heritage

During two eventful days the EUscreen network will involve archivists, curators, broadcasters and researchers to discuss the benefits and challenges arising from the openness of archives and collections in the digital age. The availability of audiovisual heritage online provides new possibilities of curation, participation, exchange and transnational cooperation that not yet have been fully explored.
We invite you to gather in Warsaw to participate in moderated debates, workshops and face to face discussions — and leave with a richer vision of how to create efficient partnerships aimed at forward-looking curation of audiovisual heritage and at a deeper involvement of users.

Mark your calendar now and stay up to date on the must-attend event for media and audiovisual heritage enthusiasts.

More information about the conference will be available soon on EUScreenXL official blog.

Tallinn, 10-11 December 2015

Creative reuse of cultural heritage and contemporary practices

Creative reuse of cultural heritage and contemporary practices – hallenges and opportunities in the digital world is the second international conference of Europeana Space.

The Conference, organized in Tallinn on 10-11 December 2015 by the Estonian Ministry of Culture, will generate new perspectives for the wider re-use of cultural heritage and contemporary practices within a framework of creative experimentation and novel dialogue between multidisciplinary sectors. It will present a critical review of the project’s creative prototypes, focusing on the lessons learnt in their development and move towards sustainable results.

A delegation of PREFORMA partners, some of which are involved also in the Europeana Space project, will attend the Conference to discuss possible cooperation opportunities between the two projects, e.g. how to integrate the results of PREFORMA – namely the conformance checkers – in the Technical Space which is being developed in Europeana Space.

For further information about the Europeana Space Conference please visit the Conference website.

Brussels, 26 January 2016

AppHub SQuAT Fest

The aim of the AppHub project is to support the market outreach strategies of EU-supported open source by launching AppHub, the European open source market place. AppHub is a service platform that will help the market to seamlessly identify, position and implement the software outcomes of your projects.

Benjamin Yousefi from Riksarkivet will participate to the discussion group to present the experience of the PREFORMA project.

When and where

Brussels, January 26, 2016

European Commission

Avenue de Beaulieu 25

1160 Brussels, Belgium

Registration

Participation is free, but because of security policies of the European commission registration is required.

Register here: http://l.ow2.org/squatfest

Registration deadline: January 8, 2016

The SQuAT Fest will take place the day after the Info Day about Horizon 2020 ICT-LEIT opportunities for research funding grants organized by the European Commission: http://europa.eu/!Kg36Tr

SQuAT Fest objectives

The main objective of the SQuAT Fest is to assist European open source project to bring their software into the AppHub European Open Source Marketplace. In addition, we like to understand the current state of open source software as developed by EU funded projects, and how we can assist them to improve their quality assurance and governance processes.

Who should participate

Project coordinators who like to understand how to establish proper open source governance as part of the exploitation strategy of their projects
Technical people who like to employ a platform for showcasing their results to make their work known, and are interested to learn about tools for software quality assurance.

Participants contribution

Please do not prepare slides! We like participants to engage in an open dialogue about the challenges, problem, and success stories on open source software development. Please prepare a short statement about:

Your project in general, and the software you are developing under an open source license;
the group of users that you address with your software;
the measures that you employ in order to ensure that you deliver quality software;
the way you manage your community of contributors and users;
the expectations that you have on our workshop.
Remember: No slides!

Bring your own software! If you have executables and an installation procedure ready we can immediately assist to bring your software into the AppHub Open Source Marketplace. We will organize a hands-on session on the AppHub platform and the Quality Assurance tool set of OW2.

You can find a detailed agenda here.

Please, REGISTER NOW: http://l.ow2.org/squatfest

Brussels, 30-31 January 2016

FOSDEM 2016 Conference

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.

FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Renowned for being highly developer-oriented, the event brings together some 5000+ geeks from all over the world.

The sixteenth edition will take place on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st January 2016 at the usual location: ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels.

Jérôme Martinez from MediaArea.net will present the PREFORMA project and more specifically MediaConch, the conformance checker for audiovisual file developed in PREFORMA. Download here the presentation (PDF).

Previous editions have featured main tracks centered around security, operating system development, community building, and many other topics.

For more information and to submit proposals for main track presentations, developer rooms, stands and lightning talks visit the Conference website.

Florence, 4-5 February 2016

PREFORMA @ IRCDL 2016

Since 2005 the Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries (IRCDL) provides a great opportunity for Italian researchers in the field of Digital Libraries to present and discuss their current research activities and to envision together further developments.

IRCDL 2016 edition is committed to preserve the traditional emphasis on the multidisciplinary nature of the research on digital libraries which has been characterizing the conference over the years. This multidisciplinary nature ranges from computer science to humanities in the broader sense, including research areas such as archival and library information sciences, information management systems, semantic technoologies, information retrieval, new knowledge environments. This is a continued challenge for the DL field and there is the need to continue to contribute to improve the cooperation between the many communities that share common objectives.

The aim of IRCDL 2016 is once more to provide the opportunity to explore new ideas, techniques, and tools, and to exchange experiences also from on-going projects. The IRCDL conferences have been launched and initially sponsored by DELOS, an EU FP6 Network of Excellence on digital libraries, together with the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua. Over the years IRCDL has become a self sustainable event that is supported by the Italian Digital Libraries Community.

A paper about PREFORMA has been submitted by the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua. The title is “Proposal for an Evaluation Framework for Compliance Checkers for Long-term Digital Preservation”.

For further information visit the Conference website.