EUreka3D and EUreka3D-XR were presented by Project Coordinator Antonella Fresa at Digital Signs – Human and Artificial Intelligence for the arts and the creative industries of the third millennium symposium, hosted by the Museum of Graphic Arts in Pisa to discuss … Continue reading
As cultural heritage increasingly moves into digital environments, professionals and organisations working with images and photographic collections face a range of challenges — from digitisation and data management to interoperability, access, reuse and the adoption of new technologies. In the context … Continue reading
Paper for the 19th Image and Research Conference in Girona, 19-20 November 2026. Abstract Historical photographic archives contain considerably more information than the comparatively small number of images traditionally selected for digitisation and publication. United Archives is therefore developing a … Continue reading
Area: digital heritage
On Saturday 23 July Tate hosted a workshop in London focussing on new tools to support the conservation of digital video, led by Dave Rice and Ashley Blewer. The workshop focussed on the functionalities existing with the latest versions of MediaInfo and MediaTrace accessed via the command line, and demonstrated the additional user friendly functionality being developed through MediaConch in developing policies for the technical evaluation of files. Continue reading
Following the successful Open Source Workshop, organised in Stockholm in April this year, the PREFORMA project invites all the members of the digital preservation community to attend the Experience Workshop – Improving long-term digital preservation, which will be held in Berlin on November 23, 2016. Continue reading
The Digital Preservation Coalition finds and celebrates the very best work in digital preservation across all sectors with the launch of the 2016 Digital Preservation Awards. The result of the design phase of the PREFORMA project has been nominated for the Award for Research and Innovation, which culminates in a glittering awards ceremony at the Wellcome Trust in London on 30 November 2016. Continue reading
The latest version of veraPDF open source, industry-approved PDF/A validator is now available to download in the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. It is accompanied by a beta version of our new documentation site which provides installation and user guides to help you get started with the veraPDF conformance checker. Please support our efforts by downloading and testing the software. Your feedback is very important, it helps to improve the software. Continue reading
What’s new in MediaConch 16.06, now available for download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal, and latest updates on the pre-IETF Berlin Symposium: No Time to Wait! A free workshop for audiovisual archivists, developers, and open standards working groups from July 18th – 20th hosted by the Deutsche Kinemathek, Zuse Institute Berlin, and MediaArea.net. Register to the workshop and learn more about MediaConch and PREFORMA! Continue reading
European Commission – Press release Boosting SMEs in the cultural and creative sectors: European Commission and EIF launch a new guarantee scheme Brussels, 30 June 2016 The European Commission and the European Investment Fund (EIF) today launched a €121 million … Continue reading
PostScriptum and the PanHellenic Union of General Directors of Local Administration “Kleisthenis” organized a unique PS Value Talk Event called “Cultural Policy and Local Growth” on Friday the 20th of May 2016 at Hyatt Regency Thessaloniki. The event was held … Continue reading
by Rosemary Kostic Cisneros (Coventry University). This was an international conference mainly for Dance/Art related academics, professionals, archivists and practitioners, with over 150 participants, organized by SIBMAS, the international network of cultural heritage in the performing arts, on 31 May – … Continue reading
Within the framework of Europeana Space, the Open and Hybrid Publishing Pilot exhibiton is under preparation since few months and will be launched soon. First, a call for creative works was published in the project blog, on the media partner digitalmeetsculture.net … Continue reading
At the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, the Europeana DSI Workshop «Tools to make your collection widely visible» was co-organized by Michael Culture association, NEMO and SPK, within the Europeana Digital Service Infrastructure (DSI) project, on 15th Februaty 2016. Sarah Wassermann … Continue reading
