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IRCDL 2015: Digital Libraries on the Move pp 86–91Cite as

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

Part of the Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS,volume 612)

Abstract

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.

Keywords

  • Reference Implementation
  • Digital Preservation
  • Conformance Checker
  • Open Archival Information System
  • Prototype Phase

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Notes

  1. 1.

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

  2. 2.

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

  3. 3.

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

  4. 4.

    http://diracvideo.org/.

  5. 5.

    http://www.matroska.org/.

  6. 6.

    https://xiph.org/ogg/.

  7. 7.

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

  8. 8.

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

  9. 9.

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

  10. 10.

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

  11. 11.

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

  12. 12.

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

  13. 13.

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

  14. 14.

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

  15. 15.

    http://benchmark-dp.org/.

  16. 16.

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

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Linda Cappellato, Nicola Ferro & Gianmaria Silvello

  2. Promoter, Peccioli, Italy

    Antonella Fresa & Claudio Prandoni

  3. National Archives of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden

    Magnus Geber & Börje Justrell

  4. PACKED, Centre of Expertise in Digital Heritage, Brussels, Belgium

    Bert Lemmens

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  1. Fac. di Scienze e TecnologieInformatiche, Libera Univ. di Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Diego Calvanese

  2. Dip. di Sci. Matematic., Info. e Fisiche, Università degli Studi di Udine, Udine, Italy

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  3. Dip. di Sci. Matematic., Info. e Fisiche, Università degli Studi di Udine, Udine, Italy

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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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