Tag: preservation

Join PREFORMA in testing and improving the conformance checkers!

PREFORMA works on one of the main challenges that memory institutions (archives, museums, libraries, etc.) are facing nowadays: the long-term preservation of digital data. In particular, the project will offer memory institutions an open source conformance checker that controls if a file complies with standard specifications and with the acceptance criteria of the memory institution, thus giving them full control of the process of conformity testing of files to be created, migrated and ingested into archives.

Kick-off workshop of the IMPACT-OPF MOOC on digitisation and digital preservation

The Impact Centre of Competence and Open Preservation foundation has organized the ‘Kick-off workshop of the IMPACT-OPF MOOC on digitisation and digital preservation’, that will take place September, 18th, in Poznan (Poland) during the 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries.

Open Planets Foundation is becoming the Open Preservation Foundation

The Open Planets Foundation announced today that it is changing its company name to the Open Preservation Foundation. The name change reflects the foundation’s core purpose and vision in the field of digital preservation while retaining its widely-known acronym, OPF.