On Jun 16, 2014, at 6:44 AM, Johan Oomen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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. — >> http://www.preforma-project.eu/tender.html >> >> 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. >> >> Our mailing address is: >> >> Promoter srl >> Via Boccioni, Peccioli, PI, Italia >> Peccioli, Toscana 56037 >> Italy Johan, thank you for bringing this to our attention, and I feel these sorts of postings are very beneficial to the list and the community. I hope we can see more of them. They are kind of like job postings, and they give folks a feeling for what is happening in the wider world. (jobs^h^h^h^htenders.code4lib.org Hmmm...) Interesting!? —Eric Morgan
