FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Wednesday 11 October

​10:00 – 11:00 Registration and welcome coffee

​11:00 – 12:30 Opening Plenary: Shaping our Future Memory Standards. Conference Hall, Chair: Antonella Fresa, Promoter Srl

  Welcome messages (Kristel Veimann, National Library of Estonia; Tarvi Sits, Estonian Ministry of Culture)

  Conformance checking and file format validation in PREFORMA (Börje Justrell, National Archives of Sweden, Coordinator of the PREFORMA project), download PDF

  Why can’t they (files, formats, software, users, standards…) all just get along? (Julia Kim, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress), download PDF

​12:30 – 13:00 Demo & posters pitches, download veraPDF presentation, download DPF Manager presentation, download MediaConch presentation, visit digital poster gallery

​13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break and visit to the poster session

​14:00 – 15:30 Main Track: Long-term preservation of digital cultural content. Conference Hall, Chair: Antonella Fresa, Promoter Srl

  The digital preservation landscape: challenges and opportunities (Raivo Ruusalepp, National Library of Estonia), download PDF

  Safeguarding Digital Heritage through Sustained Use of Legacy Software (Natasa Milic-Frayling, University of Nottingham, UNESCO/PERSIST), download PDF

​14:00 – 15:30 Parallel Track: Live demos and hands-on sessions. Exhibition Desks, Exhibitors: veraPDF Consortium, Easy Innova, MediaArea

  Live demos of the conformance checkers

  Hands-on sessions showing how to install, configure and use the conformance checkers, how to define your own preservation policy using the tools, and how to check whether your digital files comply with the standard specifications and with your own acceptance criteria

​15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break and visit to the poster session

​16:00 – 17:00 Panel discussion: Experiences from memory institutions using the PREFORMA tools. Conference Hall, Chair: Bert Lemmens, PACKED vzw, download PDF

  Panellists: Erwin Verbruggen, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision; Erik Buelinckx, Belgium Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage; Klas Jadeglans, National Archives of Sweden, Media Converting Centre; David Iglésias Franch, Municipality of Girona, Centre for Image Research and Diffusion; Bengt Neiss, National Library of Sweden; Marju Niinemaa, Estonian Ministry of Culture

​16:00 – 17:00 Parallel Track: Live demos and hands-on sessions. Exhibition Desks, Exhibitors: veraPDF Consortium, Easy Innova, MediaArea

  Live demos of the conformance checkers

  Hands-on sessions

​17:00 – 18:00 Guided tour of the National Library of Estonia

Thursday 12 October

​09:00 – 09:30 Registration

​09:30 – 11:00 Main Track: The future of digital preservation. Conference Hall, Chair: Mirjam Rääbis, Estonian Ministry of Culture

  Situation and perspectives for digital preservation among cultural heritage institutions (Monika Hagedorn-Saupe, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Institute for Museum Research), download PDF

  Back to the future? Digital preservation needs of future users anticipated today (Milena Dobreva-McPherson, University College London Qatar), download PDF

​09:30 – 11:00 Parallel Track: Live demos and hands-on sessions. Exhibition Desks, Exhibitors: veraPDF Consortium, Easy Innova, MediaArea

  Live demos of the conformance checkers

  Hands-on sessions

​11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break and visit to the poster session

​11:30 – 12:30 Panel discussion: Business models around open source software. Conference Hall, Chair: Peter Bubestinger-Steindl, AudioVisual Research & Development

  Panellists: Carl Wilson, Open Preservation Foundation; Klas Jadeglans, National Archives of Sweden, Media Converting Centre; Jérôme Martinez, MediaArea.net

​12:30 – 13:00 Closing Plenary: Conclusion. Conference Hall

  Looking after PREFORMA (Börje Justrell, National Archives of Sweden)

 

  People who are interested in learning more about the PREFORMA tools are encouraged to participate in the hands-on sessions bringing their own laptops and a few sample files to be checked.