This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement no 619568
Six suppliers have been selected for the design phase
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UPCOMING EVENTS
PREFORMA, FUTURE MEMORY STANDARDS
PREFORMA, PREservation FORMAts for culture information/e-archives, is a new Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) project started on January 1st, 2014, and co-funded by the European Commission under its FP7-ICT Programme.
Aim of the project is to address the challenge of implementing good quality standardised file formats for preserving data content in the long term. The main objective is to give memory institutions full control of the process of the conformity tests of files to be ingested into archives.
NEWS FROM THE BLOG
MoU between PREFORMA and Europeana Creative
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the two projects to enable and promote greater re-use of cultural heritage resources by creative industries, starting from the open source tools developed in the framework of PREFORMA PCP and of Europeana Creative.
Joint cooperation between PREFORMA and APARSEN
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the two EU funded projects to look for new possibilities and funding to exploit the results of the two projects in joint initiatives, at European and national level, around the theme of digital preservation.
PREFORMA presented at the Belgian Federal Scientific Institutions
Erik Buelinckx from the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage presented the project at the monthly meeting of the follow-up committee of the Belgian Federal Policy digitisation program.
Kick-off of the Swedish Working Group
15 archivists met on 15th of December 2015 at the City Archives of Uppsala for the first preparatory meeting of the PREFORMA Working Group in Sweden. They participated actively, reporting issues in producing correct PDF/A files & offering test files.
Brussels, 5 March 2015
Second concertation meeting for on-going PCP projects
PREFORMA has been invited to the second concertation meeting for all on-going PCP projects in DG Connect, organised by the European Commission in Brussels on the 5th of March 2015 to network and share experiences on common issues faced while implementing PCPs.
Cardiff, 16-20 March 2015
Procurement Week 2015
PREFORMA project has been invited to exhibit at the Game Changing Exhibition event organised by the Institute for Competition and Procurement Studies in the framework of the Procurement Week 2015.
Vienna, 28-29 April 2015
DAVID – Final User-Test-Workshop
PREFORMA project has been invited to the final evaluation and user-test-workshop organised by the sister R&D-project DAVID (Digital AV Media Damage Prevention and Repair) in Vienna at the ORF-Centre on 28-29 April 2015.
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