[Asis-l] Public call for tender: open source software for checking compliance of files against standards

[PREFORMA Project]

***Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to interested parties***

** PREFORMA call for tender - call description
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The main objective of the pre-commercial-procurement that will be launched by PREFORMA is 
the development and deployment an open source software licensed 
reference implementation for file format standards aimed for 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 
validated against specific implementations of specifications of 
standards relevant to the PREFORMA project and used by the European 
memory institutions for preserving their different kind of data objects.
 In order to demonstrate effectiveness (and refine) these tools, they 
will be developed in an iterative process with multiple releases and 
with a number of experiments with 'real' data sets (files) from memory 
institutions during each iteration. The media types covered by the tender are: documents (PDF/A 1b, 2, 3), images (TIFF 6.0) and audio-visual records (standard to be considered still under discussion).


** PREFORMA call for tender - information days--------------------------------------------------------------
On April 4th, 2014 PREFORMA project will organise in Brussels an Information Day to present the call for tender that will be launched as part of the Pre-Commercial Procurement.We strongly encourage all interested parties to attend this event to obtain more information on the functional requirements and on the technical specifications of the tender, to ask questions and to give feedback.To register to the info day please visit http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/info-day/
An additional networking session to present the call will be organised on May 21st, 2014 in the frame of the EGI Community Forum 2014 in Helsinki: http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/pre-commercial-procurement-on-digital-preservation-egi-cf-2014-helsinki/.

** PREFORMA, future memory standards--------------------------------------------------------------
PREFORMA, PREservation FORMAts for culture information/e-archives, is a Pre-Commercial Procurement project started on January 1st, 2014, and co-funded by the European Commission under its FP7-ICT Programme.Aim of the project is to address the challenge of implementing good quality standardised file formats for preserving data content in the long term. The main objective is to give memory institutions full control of the process of the conformity tests of files to be ingested into archives.

For further information please visit the PREFORMA website at www.preforma-project.euFor any question and to join the PREFORMA community feel free to contact us!

Claudio PrandoniPREFORMA Communication CoordinatorPromoter Srlwww.preforma-project.euwww.promoter.itprandoni at promoter.it




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