Area: digital heritage

PREFORMA presented to SMEs and creative industries in Greece

Thanks to the Greek Film Centre, the first results of the PREFORMA project are being widely disseminated in Greece, highlighting in particular the opportunities offered by the project to the SMEs and to the cultural and creative industries. Continue reading


OPF Digital Preservation Community Survey

The Open Preservation Foundation (OPF) has launched an online survey to assess the current state-of-the-art in digital preservation practices. The survey explores the adoption of digital preservation approaches and technology. Continue reading


PREFORMA at the RICHES International Conference

PREFORMA poster and roll-up banner ware displayed in the poster session of the first international conference of RICHES project and booklets were distributed to the over 100 attendees. Continue reading


Europeana Space poster at RICHES International Conference

Europeana Space posters have been presented at the International Conference “Cultural heritage- Recalibrating Relationships” organised by the RICHES project. The posters iarealso showcased in the Conference Digital Exhibition web page. Continue reading


The CINES and its archiving platform PAC

“PAC” (Plateforme d’Archivage) is an archiving platform specifically focused on long-term digital preservation developed by the Centre Informatique National de l’Enseignement Supérieur. Continue reading


All Our Yesterdays goes Belgian!

The second instance of All Our Yesterdays will take place from February 1 to March 15, 2015, in Campus Library Arenberg – Heverlee and Tweebronnen Library – Leuven (BE). Continue reading


Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Artistic Use and a celebration of the British Library 1 Million images collection

Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Artisitic Use and a celebration of the British Library 1 Million images collection. The first phase of the British Library Labs project ends with an event that coincides with the one year anniversary of the release … Continue reading


New MoU signed between PREFORMA and NCDD

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the two projects for the promotion and presentation of the respective results aimed to foster access, preservation and usability in the long term of digital cultural and scientific information to support research, culture and society. Continue reading


“Shaping Europe”: Europeana 1914-1918 and Europeana 1989

WW1 and the fall of the Iron Curtain, two events that shaped the Europe we know today to be commemorated at the European Parliament in unique style. A family history roadshow, digitising personal memorabilia of MEPs for these two seminal periods of European history, is taking place in the Parliament. During the event, a Twitter campaign will highlight some of the most interesting stories of this historical period. Continue reading


IST-Africa 2015 Conference

Hosted by the Government of Malawi through the National Commission for Science and Technology, Supported by the European Commission and African Union Commission, IST-Africa 2015 will take place in Lilongwe from 05 – 08 May 2015. The scientific programme for IST-Africa 2015 is based on an open Call for Papers whose deadline is December 19th, 2014. Continue reading