FYI Best, Johan Oomen Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision @johanoomen
> > The PREFORMA Project Newsletter, June 2014 > View this email in your browser > > > > 2.805.000 Euros Funding for Future Memory Standards! > > The PREFORMA call for tender has been published on June 12th, 2014. Proposal > submission deadline: August 12th, 2014. Budget: 2.805.000 EUR. > > PREFORMA CHALLENGE > PREFORMA aims to establish a set of tools and procedures for gaining full > control over the technical properties of digital content intended for > long-term preservation by memory institutions and to establish a long-term > sustainable ecosystem around the developed tools with a variety of > stakeholder groups, among which developers, digital preservationists and > standardisation bodies. > > OBJECTIVES OF THE PROCUREMENT > The main objective of the pre-commercial-procurement is the development and > deployment of an open source, software licensed, reference implementation for > file format standards aimed at any memory institution (or other organisation > with a preservation task) wishing to check conformance with a specific > standard. This reference implementation will consist of a set of modular > tools, which will be tested against the implementation of specifications of > standards relevant to the PREFORMA project and used by the European memory > institutions to preserve their data objects. > > > Submit your application! > Check out the PREFORMA Project website for all the detailed information. > > > > Copyright © 2014 Promoter srl, All rights reserved. > You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the Digital Meets > Culture Newsletter or because we believe you are potentially interested in > the theme of the digital technologies applied to the cultural sector. > > Our mailing address is: > Promoter srl > Via Boccioni, Peccioli, PI, Italia > Peccioli, Toscana 56037 > Italy > > Add us to your address book > > > unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences > >
