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The PREFORMA Project: Federating Memory Institutions for Better Compliance of Preservation Formats

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In this paper, we describe the motivations, objectives and organization of the PREservation FORMAts for culture information/ e-archives (PREFORMA) project, a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) project focused on conformity check of ingested files for the long-term preservation.

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    http://www.preforma-project.eu/.

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    http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/pre-commercial-procurement.

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    http://www.ffmpeg.org/~michael/ffv1.html.

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    http://diracvideo.org/.

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    http://www.matroska.org/.

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    https://xiph.org/ogg/.

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    http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/follow-up-of-the-preforma-information- day/ http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/follow-up-of-the-preforma-information-day/.

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    http://www.preforma-project.eu/successful-proposals.html.

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    http://www.preforma-project.eu/design-phase-1-final-workshop.html.

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    http://www.ti-a.org/.

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    http://www.preforma-project.eu/open-source-portal.html.

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    http://opensourceworkshop.preforma-project.eu/.

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    http://www.preforma-project.eu/.

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    http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/projects/preforma/.

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    http://benchmark-dp.org/.

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    http://www.europeana-space.eu/.

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Cappellato, L. et al. (2016). The PREFORMA Project: Federating Memory Institutions for Better Compliance of Preservation Formats. In: Calvanese, D., De Nart, D., Tasso, C. (eds) Digital Libraries on the Move. IRCDL 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 612. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41938-1_10

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