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UNCHARTED Central Event in London

  The UNCHARTHED Central Event was held last 12-13 January 2023 in the fantastic location of Goldsmith University of London and saw the participation of entire consortium, project advisory board members and many invited stakeholders involved in the project. It … Continue reading


‘Urban Future’ – Seminar at the Faculty of Geography and History, University of Santiago de Compostela

On Thursday, April 20 2023, at 7 p.m., in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Santiago de Compostela, the Urban Future Seminar takes place, organised by the Territorial Analysis Research Group (Grupo … Continue reading


EAGLE takes flight

Alongside the great new logo, EAGLE have also launched their website and project tagline – ‘A digital bridge to the ancient world’. The rich, detailed and intuitive website (www.eagle-network.eu) contains all the information relevant to the project, including contact information, upcoming events and schedules, and a detailed description of partner institutions and their contributions. Continue reading


King’s College London launches CultureCase

The Cultural Institute at King’s College London is happy to launch CultureCase: a new, free-to-use web resource that aims to put academic research to work in the cultural sector. The resource translates academic-standard research into digestible 300-word summaries and makes them available for the first time in one portal. Continue reading


INCULTUM launches its YouTube channel

The Webpresence of INCULTUM project is now enriched with the opening of the INCULTUM YouTube channel. The channel, coordinated by partner Promoter s.r.l. the responsible for INCULTUM communication and dissemination, opens with the recordings of the recent Data Workshop, INCULTUM’s … Continue reading


Civic Epistemologies at NALIS Forum 2015

On 12 May 2015, in Sofia, at the Ball Room of Radisson Blu Grand Hotel, the 4th international conference organised by the NALIS Foundation was held, under the title “The Challenge to Collaborate in the Digital Age”. Antonella Fresa intervened with a presentation introducing the EU projects Civic Epistemologies, E-Space, RICHES and Europeana Photography, aimed at emphasizing the sociological impact of digital cultural heritage and technologies. Continue reading


veraPDF 0.28 released

The latest version of veraPDF, the industry-supported open source, file-format validator for all parts and conformance levels of PDF/A, is now available to download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. This is the final version before version 1.0, which is expected to be released on January 9th 2017 making it an effective release candidate. New features include the schematron based policy checker and a fully functional greenfield implementation. Please help us improve the software by downloading and testing it. Continue reading


MoU signed with Impact Centre of Competence in digitisation

A cooperation agreement has been signed between PREFORMA and the Impact Centre of Competence in digitisation for the promotion and presentation of the respective results and the organisation of joint events and activities, focusing in particular on the use and quality check of common standards for digitisation and long term preservation of textual content. Continue reading


Europeana Food and Drink has launched its second Challenge!

The winners and the best videos will be presented at the Second Challenge Award Event, taking place on July 22nd 2015 during the Expo 2015 in Milan. Continue reading


RICHES at the EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON REFLECTIVE SOCIETIES

The European Commission, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, unit B6 Reflective Societies, in cooperation with the FLASH-IT project kindly organises the workshop “Bridge over troubled waters? The link between European historical heritage and the future of European integration” being held in Rome, on the 17th of October 2014. The workshop revolves around the problematic of the interconnectedness of the past, present and the future in the current European societies and brings together specialists of history, cultural heritage and identity studies as well as policy makers and managers from the European Commission and national funding bodies. Continue reading