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PREFORMA Kick-Off Meeting

The University of Padova hosts the kick-off meeting of a new Pre-Commercial Procurement project co-funded by the European Commission under its FP7-ICT Programme to address the challenge of implementing good quality standardised file formats for preserving data content in the long term. The main objective of PREFORMA is to give memory institutions full control of the process of the conformity tests of files to be ingested into archives. Continue reading


IN SITU Summer School Call for Applications: Place-based creative solutions for cultivating caring and sustainable communities

  We are pleased to announce the Call for Applications for the IN SITU project Summer School “Place-based creative solutions for cultivating caring and sustainable communities”, to be held in the island of Zlarin, Croatia, on 20-24 September 2024. IN … Continue reading


Excellent evaluation for Preforma!

On 26 March 2015 PREFORMA underwent its first review, obtaining an excellent evaluation. The EC reviewers gave the consortium useful recommendations to improve the networking activities and to start planning the testing phase. Continue reading


DCH-RP Second Plenary Meeting in Venice

The two-days discussion was held in a positive spirit of collaboration and covered both the impacts already achieved by previous projects and those foreseen in the future to be obtained by DCH-RP. The meeting continued with the discussion on the project’s activities, where each partner presented its achievements and plans for the next months. The next project meeting will take place in September 2013 in Stockholm, hosted by the Swedish Royal Archives. Continue reading


INCULTUM presented at Be.CULTOUR webinar

The Be.CULTOUR project, focused on enhancing cultural heritage and landscape values for sustainable cultural tourism, is unfolding a series of webinars to boost peer learning among its Community of Interest and other followers. Given that Be.CULTOUR and INCULTUM established a cooperation … Continue reading


CHNT2019: Monumental Computations

The International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies in Vienna now approaches its 24th edition. This year’s theme is Monumental Computations. A rich programme of keynotes speeches, thematic sessions, round tables and a poster session will tackle this year … Continue reading


veraPDF 1.8 released

The latest version of veraPDF is now available to download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. This release includes new PDF information in the features report and automatic configuration of the features extractor when applying custom policy profiles. There are also a number of low level PDF fixes and improvements which are documented in the latest release notes. From September, veraPDF will make the transition from a funded project to a stand alone open source project. Continue reading


Celebrating PHOTOCONSORTIUM

The great experience of the Europeana Photography project is near to its end: the project is finishing on 31st January 2015 with a big closing event in Leuven. But the end of the project is nothing else than what it … Continue reading


INCULTUM Pilots meet to share about their progress

In order to keep the pace of Pilots’ progress in the various areas and activities, a series of online networking meetings was organized on 9-10-11 January 2023. The Pilots have a lot of commonalities and differences, and often share challenges … Continue reading


Transformations and Change – How heritage contributes to change at social, political and economic and environmental level

text by Rosa Cisneros, C-DARE Coventry University. Dr Amalia Sabiescu  is researcher at Loughborough University London and is teaching a module for students of an MA in Media and Creative Industries. The module is titled ‘Heritage industries in the digital age’ … Continue reading