Area: digital heritage

International Conference EuroMed2014

The 5th International Euro-Mediterranean Conference (EuroMed 2014), devoted to Cultural Heritage (CH), is being held on the 3rd-8th of November at the entrance of the ancient Amathus city, by Limassol, in Cyprus island. In particular, this year the conference will focus on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible CH, on the use of cutting-edge technologies for protection, restoration, preservation, massive digitization, documentation and presentation of the CH content. Continue reading


RICHES International Conference

PREFORMA project will participate to the digital poster exhibition at the International Conference organised by the RICHES project on December 4th and 5th in Pisa, entitled Cultural Heritage: Recalibrating Relationships. Continue reading


PREFORMA @ IRCDL 2015 Conference

The Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries provides a great opportunity for researchers in the field of Digital Libraries to present and discuss their current research activities and to envision together further developments. A paper about PREFORMA will be presented by the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua. Continue reading


PREFORMA @ FOSDEM 2015

FOSDEM is a two-day free event organised by volunteers to promote the widespread use of open source software, offering open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and brings together 5000+ geeks from all over the world. Continue reading


Europeana Tech Conference 2015

This event will bring together application developers, information professionals, technology researchers and decision makers in the cultural domain to explore current technical challenges around digitisation and re-use of cultural content, learn about new developments and establish future collaborations. Continue reading


PREFORMA at the XV Congrés d’Arxivística de Catalunya

On 28-30 May 2015, in Lleida, the XV Archive Congress of Catalonia is being held, aimed at investigating and developing best practice for digital preservation. As PREFORMA Project representative, Bert Lemmens from PACKED is intervening with a speech on “Selecting Formats for Digital Preservation”. Continue reading


BitCurator Digital Forensics workshop

This worskhop, organised by Open Preservation Foundation, is being held in Vienna, at the Austrian Institute of Technology, on 29 May 2015. It offers the opportunity to learn how digital forensics and the use of disk images can support your digital preservation workflows. Participants will get hands-on experience using the BitCurator tools including the latest developments with BitCurator Access. Continue reading


Second concertation meeting for on-going PCP projects

PREFORMA has been invited to the second concertation meeting for all on-going PCP projects in DG Connect, organised by the European Commission in Brussels on the 5th of March 2015 to network and share experiences on common issues faced while implementing PCPs. Continue reading


DAVID – Final User-Test-Workshop

PREFORMA project has been invited to the final evaluation and user-test-workshop organised by the sister R&D-project DAVID (Digital AV Media Damage Prevention and Repair) in Vienna at the ORF-Centre on 28-29 April 2015. Continue reading


PREFORMA @ the Nordic Archival Conference

On 6-8 May 2015, Magnus Geber from Riksarkivet – Coordinator of the PREFORMA project – will attend the Nordic Archival Conference in Copenhagen. PREFORMA will be presented on the first day during a pre-meeting with e-archivists and a poster will be showcased during the conference. Continue reading