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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.

Amsterdam, 22-25 February 2016

11th International Digital Curation Conference

The 11th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC16), “Visible data, invisible infrastructure”, will be held in Amsterdam at the Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre. There will be a programme of workshops on Monday 22 February and Thursday 25 February and the main conference will run from Tuesday 23 to Wednesday 24 February 2016.

Erwin Verbruggen from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Dave Rice and Jérôme Martinez from MediaArea, Bert Lemmens from PACKED and Claudio Prandoni from Promoter Srl submitted a paper entitled “Open Source Preservation Tools for Audiovisual Collections: PREFORMA and the MediaConch project“.

For more information visit the Conference website.

The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) is an established annual event with a unique place in the digital curation community, reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in curating data and providing an opportunity to get together with like-minded data practitioners to discuss policy and practice.

The last edition of IDCC took place in London, 9-12 February 2015. If you were not able to attend you can now access all the presentations, videos and photos online, and much more!

Singapore, 7-9 March 2016

JTS Joint Technical Symposium

JTS Joint Technical Symposium “Sustainable audiovisual collections through collaboration”, Singapore, National Museum of Singapore, Gallery Theatre, Basement, 7-9 March 2016

The Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) explores the technical issues affecting the long term survival and accessibility of audiovisual collections. JTS is an international symposium and brings together the world’s foremost research and thinking regarding the preservation and accessibility of moving image and recorded sound collections, from 19th century endeavours to the most recent digital technologies.

Since the last JTS in 2010 the audiovisual archiving world has seen many dramatic changes and advancements in the technologies that enable preservation. The rate and magnitude of these changes requires a collaborative approach to enable all archives to make sense of the best way to keep collections alive for future generations.

The theme of JTS 2016 “Sustainable Audiovisual Collections Through Collaboration” addresses this dynamic landscape. The papers presented at JTS 2016 will cover the ongoing technological viability of audiovisual collections both as individual items and holistically, as well as every aspect of audiovisual media preservation and access such as conservation and restoration, harvesting and accessing collection information – including metadata and intellectual property.

JTS 2016 is organised under the auspices of UNESCO by the Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA) and its members’ Technical Committees. The event is hosted by the South East Asia Pacific Audio Visual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA) and the National Archives of Singapore (NAS).

A paper about PREFORMA and the MediaConch project (“PREFORMA and the MediaConch project: Open Source Tools for Open Standards“) has been accepted and will be presented by The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and MediaArea.

For further information, please visit the Conference website at http://www.jts2016.org/ or contact:

Mick Newnham: mick.newnhamATnfsa.gov.au
Irene Lim: Irene_LL_LIMATnlb.gov.sg

Brussels, 10 March 2016

Concertation Meeting for PCP projects

PREFORMA has been invited to the third concertation meeting for all on-going PCP projects in DG Connect, organised by the European Commission in Brussels on 10 March 2015.

During this event the EC wants to give the opportunity to the attendees to network and share experiences on common issues that they face while implementing PCPs.

Antonella Fresa, Technical Coordinator of PREFORMA, will present the methodology and approach to evaluate and improve the software prototypes, i.e. how set up a framework and an infractucture that allows to “train” the tools during the prototyping phase and to evaluate them during the testing phase.

Download here the agenda of the meeting.

Prague, 9-11 March 2016

PASIG 2016 Conference

Registration is open for the next PASIG (Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group) conference in Prague: http://pasig.schk.sk/wordpress/registration.

Please note that the early bird rate of 200€ is available until the end of January. The cost from the 1st February onwards will be 250€.

This is a great opportunity for organisations setting up preservation repositories to collaborate and work directly with leaders in the field. The PASIG is focused on:

addressing practical preservation questions;
hearing about best practices and new technologies from global experts;
investigating the convergence of on-premise architectures and the Cloud;
how to set up, initiate, and audit the metrics of a preservation project;
key global project updates; and
solution provider and end customer collaboration.

PASIG is a highly collaborative and interactive forum and generally attracts a large contingent of new participants.

A veraPDF workshop will be organised in the morning of the first day and the PREFORMA project will be presented on the second day the conference by Emanuel Lorrain from PACKED vzw.

Session Overviews include:

Digital Preservation Bootcamp
- Training in concepts, issues, tools, strategies & approaches for Digital Preservation and Archiving.
Open Preservation Foundation Workshop: veraPDF – definitive, open source PDF/A validation for digital preservationists
PKX / Practitioners Knowledge Exchange: Case Studies in Preservation & Archiving Architectures and Operations
Lightning Talks
The Frontiers of Preservation
- Discussions on the recent developments and challenges facing those who are tackling digital preservation.
Industry Collaboration and Solution Vendor Presentations
Project Updates and Digital Preservation Community Developments
Hardening Existing Systems with Preservation Capabilities