FRESA, Antonella; JUSTRELL, Borje; PRANDONI, Claudio
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Curriculum
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ICT expert, General Manager and Administrator of company Promoter,
she’s been working on European cooperation projects since 1994. Technical Coordinator of EC projects
EUROPEANA PHOTOGRAPHY (CIP Pilot B), DCH-RP (FP7
CSA), EAGLE (CIP BPN), EUROPEANA SPACE (CIP BPN), and Communication
manager of RICHES (FP7 SSH) and PREFORMA (FP7 ICT Pre-Commercial
Procurement). She manages the provision of communication services to Sii-Mobility
Project (Smart Cities Programme) and she is Associate Partner Representative in the DIXIT Consortium (Marie-Curie Programme). Previously: Technical Coordinator of
LINKED HERITAGE project, advisor
of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage
and Activities, Technical
Coordinator of DC-NET ERA-NET, INDICATE, MINERVA
and MICHAEL series, Project Officer at the European Commission between 1999 and
2002. She is Project Manager of
digitalmeetsculture.net online communication Platform powered by Promoter.
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Director and Head
of Operational Support
at the National Archives of Sweden. He has since 1989 been responsible for technical matters at the National Archives. Justrell has been teaching archival science at the University of Stockholm for many years and also been a member of international committees within the archivists’ professional association, ICA. He has been
representing Sweden in
expert groups on digitisation
and digital preservation within
the European Commission and also worked (and still do) in a number of EU projects like Minerva, MinervaPlus, Linked Heritage, DC-NET and DCH-RP.He was the coordinator
of the EU project
PROTAGE on digital preservation in the 7th framework programme and between 2003 –
2009 responsible for an
advanced international training programme for developing countries conducted
by the Swedish National Archives and sponsored by the SIDA, the Swedish International Development Cooperation.
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Technical Coordinator of EAGLE (CIP BPN). Assistant to the Technical Coordinator of DCH-RP (FP7, e-Infrastructure)
and Linked Heritage
(CIP BPN). Assistant to the
Communication Manager of PREFORMA (FP7 ICT Pre-Commercial Procurement). Technical Leader of HarmoSearch project (FP7 Research for the benefit of SMEs). Vice-President and responsible
for technology of HarmoNET Association - the
Harmonisation Network for the Exchange of Travel and Tourism Information. Involved
in several projects of the European Commission, especially targeted at the
tourism and cultural heritage sectors, in FP5, FP6, FP7, eTEN, eContent+ and CIP
ICT-PSP. Previously: consultant of the Multimedia and Telematic
Applications Center of Consorzio
Pisa Ricerche (CPR) as part of the research and
development staff; consultant of Metaware Spa for
the management of activities and resources in the design and technological
development of the company as well as in the commercial activities.
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Title:
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PREFORMA, FUTURE MEMORY STANDARDS
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Brief summary:
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PREFORMA
is a new Pre-Commercial Procurement project co-funded by the EC 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.
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Content:
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Memory institutions are
facing increasing transfers of electronic
documents and other media
content for long term preservation.
Data are normally stored in specific file
formats for documents, images, sound, video etc. that are produced
by software from different vendors. This software is controlled neither by the institution that produces the files, nor by the institution
that holds the archive. As a result, memory institutions have to make conformance tests before accepting transfers of electronic collections, but these tests are again out of control and not totally reliable. This poses problems in long-term preservation. Data objects meant for preservation, passing through an uncontrolled generative process, can jeopardise the whole preservation
exercise.
The main objective of PERFORMA (PREservation
FORMAts for culture information/e-archives) is to
give memory institutions
full control of the process
of the conformity tests
of files to be ingested into
archives, through the development of a set of
open source tools which enable this process to happen within an iteration that is under full control of
the institutions.
The network of common interest of PREFORMA is composed
by representatives from
memory institutions, researchers
and developers who are interested to contribute to the definition of the requirements and to take part
in the assessment and the exploitation of the results produced by the suppliers.
To get more information,
to stay informed about the progress
of the project and to join the PREFORMA community, visit our website (www.preforma-project.eu) and our
blog on Digital Meets Culture
(www.digitalmeetsculture.net/projects/preforma/) or contact
us at info@preforma-project.eu.
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Scientific contribution:
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The main objective
of the procurement 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.
The media types covered by the tender are: documents, images,
audio-visual records.
In order to demonstrate effectiveness of these tools
and to refine them, they will be developed in an iterative process and they will be tested with 'real' data sets provided by the memory institutions.
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Keywords:
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Digital preservation, Data transfer, Standard file formats,
Conformance tests, Memory institutions and archives, Open Source Software,
Pre-Commercial Procurement
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