Topic: software & tools

PREFORMA Experience Workshop

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


veraPDF 0.18 released: try it!

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


MediaConch Newsletter #6 – July 2016

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


Latest dissemination activities by SPK

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


VICTA 2016: 3rd International Workshop on Visions on Internet of Cultural Things and Applications / call for papers

This workshop is collocated with SITIS 2016 – The 12th International Conference on SIGNAL IMAGE TECHNOLOGY & INTERNET BASED SYSTEMS.  The adoption of Future Internet (FI) technology, and in particular of its most challenging components like the Internet of Things (IoT) … Continue reading


…. and the winner is…. (E-Space incubated projects)

One of the key objectives of Europeana Space is to help creative industries to leverage on digital cultural content for creating new products and services – thus creating new businesses and job positions. To do so, a series of 6 … Continue reading


MUSEUM: VISION 2026 – interesting workshop in Turin

On 16-17 June 2016, in Turin in the beautiful premises of Palazzo Madama, the Turin Museums Foundation in collaboration with Singularity University Geneva, organized a conference dedicated to the analysis of present scenarios and vision of future for cultural heritage in 10 … Continue reading


Open Preservation Foundation publishes Annual Report

The 2014-2016 Annual Report has been published by Open Preservation Foundation, looking back on the activities and achievements undertaken by the Foundation over the past two years. veraPDF, one of the three open source projects funded in the framework in PREFORMA, is considered a crucial technical success by providing the definitive implementation of a PDF/A validation tool, which was released in version 0.14 earlier this year. Continue reading


Europeana Space Toolbox, a flexible solution for museums educators

by Beatrix Lehmann (Museumsmedien) At the end of May 2016 the Europeana Space Toolbox was presented by Beatrix Lehmann from  Museumsmedien, in an event for educators in memorials and museums. The participants came from different institutions in Berlin: German Historical … Continue reading


veraPDF 0.16 released and available for download

The latest version of veraPDF is now available for download from the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. It features full support of all PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3 requirements (all levels). Together with earlier support of PDF/A-1 validation, it represents the first full support for all PDF/A parts and conformance levels. Please support our efforts by downloading and testing the software. Please support our efforts by downloading and testing the software. Continue reading