The new challenges that archives face today concern their relationship with space and the environment, a balance that is increasingly fragile and exposed to risk: floods, fires, and climate change are reshaping the risk profile of documentary heritage. The workshop … Continue reading
The SECreTour Network is growing! R-MAP is the acronym of the project titled Mapping, understanding, assessing and predicting the effects of remote working arrangements in urban and rural areas. R-Map is a three-year project funded by the European Union under … Continue reading
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This document provides an overview of the dissemination strategy, activities, and materials the PREFORMA Project intends to use over the lifetime of the project. The dissemination activities aim to increase the impact of the project by making it visible to … Continue reading
This Deliverable is a report on the networking platform of tools and guidelines, which includes all terms of reference and methodologies for: Networking with the stakeholders (memory institutions, ICT providers, standardisation bodies) Enlargement of the network Specific methodologies of the … Continue reading
This document provides an overview on the progress of the online branding strategy for PREFORMA and provides a reference point for all necessary actions regarding the promotion of PREFORMA’s web presence. It also aims to provide an overall description of … Continue reading
The three consortia awarded with contracts for the prototyping phase – veraPDF consortium, Easy Innova and MediaArea – start development on open source file compliance checkers for documents, still images and moving image materials. This phase will last until December 2016. Continue reading
The article “Digital curation and quality standards for memory institutions: PREFORMA research project” has just been published in the Archive Science Journal – S.I. Digital Curation – and it is available as ‘Online First’ on SpringerLink. Continue reading
On March 6th 2015, the six suppliers who are currently working in the first design phase of the PREFORMA PCP project presented to the PREFORMA Consortium and to the external experts of the Evaluation Committee the results of their work. Stay tuned on our Open Source Portal! Continue reading
Antonella Fresa, Technical Coordinator of PREFORMA, attended the second concertation meeting for on-going PCP projects in DG Connect, organised by the European Commission in Brussels on the 5th of March 2015. Presentations and minutes of the meeting are now available for download. Continue reading
As a new stage of the Digital Museum Expo, this colloquium and workshop focuses on the impact of 3D digital assets for cultural heritage. Digitisation of museum objects is not a final stage, but only a start for research, conservation … Continue reading
As a new stage of the Digital Museum Expo, this colloquium and workshop focuses on the impact of 3D digital assets for cultural heritage. Digitisation of museum objects is not a final stage, but only a start for research, conservation … Continue reading
This edition brings you news of an innovative partnership with PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, which gives researchers access to world-class data infrastructure and storage. Kimmo Koski calls for trust between researchers and technology providers, our roving reporter catches up with Carl Johan Håkansson to find out more about B2SHARE and we explore Augusto Burgueño’s vision for e-infrastructures in Europe. Continue reading
