Topic: museum & library information systems

Open Dialogue for the preparation of the PREFORMA tender

PREFORMA aims to ensure the establishment of a process of Open Dialogue between the memory institutions and the technology providers who develop the software. The memory institutions will define the functional requirements of the tender based on the outcome of the Open dialogue. Continue reading


PREFORMA website and blog launched!

The website contains all information relevant to the project, including objectives, partners, contact persons, activities, outcomes, events, publications, as well as information on the tender and how to join the network. The project has simultaneously released the tagline that will represent the project together with the logo: Future Memory Standards. Continue reading


PREFORMA invited to the EC Concertation Meeting on PCP

PREFORMA has been invited to a concertation meeting for ongoing PCP projects organised by the Innovation Unit of the European Commission. Three project representatives will attend the meeting to collect information about good practices and to bring up problems or questions. Continue reading


PREFORMA Requirements Workshop

On March 5th, 2014 PREFORMA will organise a workshop in Brussels targeted to memory institutions to agree on the expected behavior and functionality of the tools to be developed in the coming years by the software suppliers that will be selected out of the procurement that will be launched by the project. Continue reading


PREFORMA Call for Tender, Information Day

On April 4th 2014 PREFORMA project will organise an Information Day to present the call for tender that will be launched as part of the Pre-Commercial Procurement. Participation is open to everybody who is interested to participate to the call and to become a PREFORMA supplier but will be subject to registration. Continue reading


PREFORMA @ CIDOC 2014 Conference

The 2014 edition of the conference has the title “Access and Understanding – Networking in the Digital Era” and among the themes a special session is dedicated to Long Term Preservation of Digital Data. The PREFORMA project will be presented by Dr. Stefan Rohde-Enslin from SPK. Continue reading


DAVID workshop at FIAT/IFTA 2014

Digital Video Damage in Archives: Understand, Prevent, Detect, and Repair – Results from the DAVID Project. Workshop organised by the DAVID project in the frame of the FIAT/IFTA 2014 conference in Amsterdam. Continue reading


Europeana Photography Seminar – Software for managing digital collections

Organized by CRDI – Centre de Recerca i Difusió de la Imatge (Ajuntament de Girona) and GenCat – Generalitat de Catalunya (Department de Cultura), a seminar in the framework of EuropeanaPhotography project has take place in Barcelona (29th January 2014), at the premises of Palau Moja, Carrer … Continue reading


PREFORMA @ Euromed International Conference 2014

PREFORMA will participate the workshop “The Digitization Age: Mass Culture is Quality Culture. Challenges for Cultural Heritage and Society”, organised by Promoter Srl, with a presentation of its objectives and expected outcomes. Continue reading


Succeed Final Conference

PREFORMA project will participate with a poster to the conference “Succeed in digitisation. Spreading excellence”, organised by the Succeed project on November 28th, 2014 at Bibliothèque nationale de France. Continue reading