iPRES is the major international conference on the preservation and long-term management of digital materials.
The iPRES 2017 hosted by Kyoto University will contribute to promotion of researches and development of technologies and services of digital preservation. Following the success of the previous conferences, the iPRES 2017 will serve as an international forum for the global community of digital preservation.
The main objectives at iPRES 2017 will be cultural resources in various domains and from various viewpoints. Academic societies in the areas of digital humanities and information resource management are the main communities to support this conference in Japan. This conference will be organized in collaboration with major memory institutions in Japan.
The theme of the coming conference is: Keeping Cultural Diversity for the Future in the Digital Space — From Pop Culture to Scholarly Information.
Bengt Kneiss from the National Library of Sweden, one of the memory institutions participating as a partner in the PREFORMA PCP project, will present the results of PREFORMA and the conformance checkers developed in the project.
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