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December 13 2016

Memory Institutions in Control: Help Shape Future Standards!

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As you might know, the PREFORMA project works on one of the main challenges memory institutions are facing nowadays: the long-term preservation of digital data.

If your memory institution is working with or is helping to refine open source tools, please share your experiences via this survey. It should take about 20 minutes to complete, and you can skip questions that are not relevant to your situation.

The main objective of the PREFORMA project is to give memory institutions full control of the process of conformity testing of the digital files to be created, migrated and ingested into archives. For this reason, the project is developing three open source tools that control whether a file complies with the standard specifications and with the acceptance criteria of the memory institution. The standards under consideration are: PDF/A for electronic documents, uncompressed TIFF for images and a combination of MKV, FFv1 and LPCM for AV files.

The software development is carried out in a collaborative environment with memory institutions and experts. The project seeks to establish a sustainable community that ensures long-term availability of the software, generates useful feedback for those who control it and continually improves the standard specifications.

Fully functional prototypes of the conformance checkers are available to download in the PREFORMA Open Source Portal.

Your cooperation is greatly appreciated, and will help to shape future memory standards! For further questions, contact Claudio Prandoni of the PREFORMA project. The survey can be found here.

September 23 2014

Tool highlight: SCAPE Online Demos

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Now that we are entering the final days of the SCAPE project, we would like to highlight some SCAPE Quality Assurance tools that have an online demonstrator.

See http://scape.demos.opf-labs.org/ for the following tools:

Pagelyzer: Compares web pages

Monitor your web content.

Jpylyzer: Validates images

JP2K validator and properties extractor.

Xcorr-sound: Compares audio sounds

Improve your digital audio recordings.

Flint: Validates different files and formats

Validate PDF/EPUB files against an institutional policy

Matchbox: Compares documents (following soon)

Duplicate image detection tool.

For more info on these and other tools and the SCAPE project, see http://www.scape-project.eu/tools.

September 11 2014

And the winner is….

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Which message do YOU want to send to the EU for the future of Digital Preservation projects?

At closing time of the workshop the winner and two runner up tweets were announced. Three very different messages to the EU altogether. One runner up tweet was urging the EU to allow for a small sustainability budget for at least 5 years after a project formally ends. The other runner up tweet included the question: 'Will this tweet be preserved?" which -very appropiate- by now is already deleted and thus seemingly lost forever.

But we are proud to announce:

The winner! @perdalum: The words of Galadriel "Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it" must not come true #DP2EU

More about the workshop in the offical SCAPE/ APARSEN workshop blogs- soon to be published!

August 21 2014

Win an e-book reader!

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On September 8 the SCAPE/ APARSEN workshop Digital Preservation Sustainability on the EU Level is held at London City University in connection with the DL2014 conference.

The main objective of the workshop is to provide an overview of solutions to challenges within Digital Preservation Sustainability developed by current and past Digital Preservation research projects. The event brings together various EU projects/initiatives to present their solutions and approaches, and to find synergies between them.

Attached to the workshop Digital Preservation Sustainability on the EU Level SCAPE and APARSEN launch a competition:

Which message do YOU want to send to the EU for the future of Digital Preservation projects?

You can join the competition on Twitter. Only tweets including the hashtag #DP2EU are contending in the competition. You are allowed to include a link to a text OR one picture with your message. Messages which contain more than 300 characters in total are excluded from the competition, though.

The competition will close September 8^th at 16:30 UK time. The workshop panel will then choose one of the tweets as a winner. The winner will receive an e-book reader as a prize.

There are only a few places left for the workshop. Registration for the workshop is FREE and must be completed by filling out the form here – http://bit.ly/DPSustainability. Please don’t register for this workshop on the DL2014 registration page, since this workshop is free of charge!

July 3 2014

The SCAPE Project video is out!

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Do you want a quick intro to what SCAPE is all about?

Then you should watch the new SCAPE video!

The video will be used at coming SCAPE events like SCAPE demonstration days and workshops and it will be available on Vimeo for everyone to use. You can help us to disseminate this SCAPE video by tweeting using this link https://vimeo.com/99803729!

Standard tools become overtaxed….. ….SCAPE addresses these challenges

The production of this SCAPE video was part of the final project presentation. The idea behind the video is to explain what SCAPE is about to both technical and non-technical audiences. In other words, the overall outcomes and unique selling points of the project in a short and entertaining video. But how do you condense a four year project with 19 partners and lots of different tools and other SCAPE products in just two minutes?

We started with formulating the SCAPE overall messages and unique selling points, from which a script was distilled. This was the basis for the voice over text and a story board, after which the animation work began. There were lots of adjustments to be made in order to stay close to the actual SCAPE situation. It was great that SCAPErs from different areas of the project were kind enough to look at what we from the Take Up team came up with.

Please take a look and use this video to tell everyone how SCAPE helps you to bring your digital preservation into the petabyte dimension!

SCAPE Project – Digital Preservation into the Petabyte Dimension from SCAPE project on Vimeo.

May 9 2014

The final SCAPE developers workshop in The Hague

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The third and final SCAPE developers workshop was held at the Royal Dutch Library in The Hague on 23-25 April. This workshop was the final opportunity to work together face to face in a large group, since we are getting closer to the end of the project in September.

The workshop objectives were to identify and develop demonstrators for our workshop at the DL2014 Conference in September -more info will follow- and the final EC review, to continue working towards sustaining our work beyond the project and to bring everyone together to enable productive work on project deliverables.

In order to get as much work done as possible, we decided to work roughly according to Kanban methods. There were only a few presentations to start up the process, everything was on the TODO/DOING/DONE boards and we had regular stand up moments to update progress on the boards.

And this is what KANBAN – the SCAPE way looked like:

At the beginning of the workshop: TO DO and DOING… ..and the DONE board at the final stand up!

There was a focus on the Productization of the SCAPE tools. In preparation to the workshop tools were tested on user-friendliness. This was used as input to work on the maturity of tools.

A lot of work was also done on the demonstrators. What will be presented and how? How can we integrate our main SCAPE messages? It was good to be able to discuss this together and to come up with an outline for further preparation.

Working from input gathered at the All Staff Meeting in February a lot of the last documentation gaps were filled. This means we can now publish tool microsites, for which a template was developed in preparation to this workshop.

All in all we can look back on three very productive days. The Kanban boards turned out to work as expected, and as always it was good to meet many other SCAPErs in a good atmosphere. Not only during the working days but also afterwards. I'm confident we can continue this in the coming months!

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