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AppHub PlugFest in Berlin

Looking for exploitation and dissemination opportunities for your project in virtual and cloud environments? The AppHub open source marketplace promotes your software, improves its portability and help you grow your community. The main objective of the AppHub Workshops is to assist European open source project to bring their software into the AppHub European Open Source Marketplace. Continue reading


Civic Epistemologies @ Riches Second Policy Seminar

“New Horizons for Cultural Heritage – Recalibrating relationships: bringing cultural heritage and people together in a changing Europe” was the Second Policy Seminar organised by the RICHES project to discuss how the project can provide insights to support evidence-based policymaking in Europe. Mauro Fazio, with the team from Promoter, was there to continue talking about the CIVIC EPISTEMOLOGIES project. Continue reading


UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for the selection of digital heritage for long-term preservation

The UNESCO PERSIST Project has recently launched the UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for the selection of digital heritage for long-term preservation. The Guidelines, drafted with a group of seven authors from the libraries, archives and museums world, aim to provide a starting point for institutions (museums, archives and libraries) to draft their own digital heritage selection policy. Continue reading


PREFORMA @ IPRES 2016

PREFORMA’s proposals for a workshop (“Quality standards for preserving digital cultural heritage”) and a talk (“Status of CELLAR: Update from an IETF Working Group for Matroska and FFV1”) have been both accepted at IPRES 2016, the longest standing digital preservation conference in the world, bringing together key theorists, researchers and practitioners to explore the latest trends, innovations, policies and practices in digital preservation. Continue reading


SILVER Final Conference and Workshop

The SILVER consortium hosts its Final Conference and Workshop, which will be held ahead of the European eHealth Week, on the 7th of June 2016 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Conference aims to share the SILVER experience with Pre-Commercial Procurement as an innovative tool for bringing new care technologies to the market. Furthermore, the successful robotic solution – the Lean Elderly Assistant (LEA) – will be presented by its designers, Robot Care Systems. Continue reading


DATeCH 2016 Conference @ Digitisation Days

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


IMAGE AND RESEARCH 14th International Conference

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


veraPDF 0.14 released with launch of demo website

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 2016: Bootcamp

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


Scenario workshop on Open eGovernment Services

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