Topic: museum & library information systems

SCAPE Project Demo & Information Days Agenda

The British Library and Statsbiblioteket are organising a demo day where it is possible to meet some of the SCAPE developers in their own environment. The developers will show how to integrate tools and services developed in SCAPE in your own preservation environment. Continue reading


The Berlin Culture Hackathon: COD1NG DA V1NC1

PREFORMA has taken notice of the event, which was attended by cultural institutions from all over Germany, the developer community, the designer community, and the gaming community, with the aim to make the digital heritage available in a creative way. Continue reading


PREFORMA presented at the Yearly Assembly of German Museum Association

The project was presented to IT and documentation professionals in museums to familiarise the audience with the project and raise awareness that files have to be checked before being preserved. Continue reading


DCH-RP @ CIDOC 2014 Conference

The CIDOC Conference 2014 committee has accepted the proposal to present a paper on the DCH-RP Roadmap at the CIDOC 2014 Conference in Dresden. The presentation will be given in the session Session G/1, Digital Long Term Preservation on Tuesday 9th September 2014 and the paper will be published in the conference proceedings. Continue reading


Digital preservation sustainability on the EU policy level

The main objective of the workshop was to provide an overview of solutions to challenges within Digital Preservation Sustainability developed by current and past Digital Preservation research projects. The event brought together various EU projects/initiatives to present their solutions and approaches, and to find synergies between them. Continue reading


RICHES first WORKSHOP at UIC

The workshop was celebrated on Tuesday, May 13th, at The Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC) Barcelona’s Campus and served as the foundation of the RICHES Project research areas. The workshop outcomes established an initial agreement of basic definitions and frameworks which will delineate RICHES’ fields of research and further study on the context of change in which European Cultural Heritage (CH) is transmitted and on the role of CH in the economic and social development of Europe. Continue reading


DCH-RP e-Infrastructure Concertation Workshop

The meeting represented a very good opportunity to discuss in more detail the strategy and recommendations presented in the DCH-RP roadmap for preservation and how to prepare for future cooperation. Expected outcome is a concrete and endorsed plan for the exploitation of the results from the DCH-RP Proof of Concepts. Continue reading


Networking for Digital Preservation

Interview with Claudio Prandoni, PREFORMA’s Communication Coordinator, who has organised the digital preservation networking session that will be held in Helsinki on May 21st, 2014 in the frame of the EGI Community Forum. Continue reading


A new registry of services and tools for digital preservation

DCH-RP and the partners of the Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry are investigating the possibility to join their efforts to set up a common registry of services and tools useful for preserving digital information for the long term. Continue reading


Joint DCH-RP/EUDAT workshops on digital preservation

On the 3rd and 4th of June 2014, the National Archives of Sweden hosted in Stockholm two workshops organised by DCH-RP in cooperation with EUDAT on the theme of digital preservation of cultural data. The first one focused on the roadmap for the long-term preservation of DCH, while the second one discussed the trust issues to be addressed. Continue reading