Kick-off of the Swedish Working Group

Posted on: 18 December 2014

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USA215 archivists met on 15th of December 2015 at the City Archives in the centre of Uppsala for the first preparatory meeting of the PREFORMA National Working Group in Sweden. 6 persons were from archive authorities or memory intuitions and the rest were archivist at governmental agencies.

 

Magnus Geber from Riksarkivet, responsible for the networking Work Package in PREFORMA and National Referee the Swedish Working Group, delivered a general presentation of the project and of its networking activities.

Joining the PREFORMA network would mean to get direct information and means to influence our project, testing parts of the software during the development process and providing feedback and advice.

 

USAThe group showed interested and participated actively, reporting their problem in producing correct PDF/A-files and looking forward to what PREFORMA and its suppliers can provide to help them to solve that problem.

Some of the agencies offered to make available test-files for the demostration and testing phase.

 

After the successful meeting at the City Archives in Sweden, networking activities started also in other Countries, such as in Belgium, Netherlands, Greece, Ireland, Germany, Spain and Estonia.

 

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