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FYI Best, Johan Oomen Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision @johanoomen > > The PREFORMA Project Newsletter, June 2014 > View this email in your browser > > > > 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. > > 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. > > > Submit your application! > Check out the PREFORMA Project website for all the detailed information. > > > > Copyright © 2014 Promoter srl, All rights reserved. > You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the Digital Meets Culture Newsletter or because we believe you are potentially interested in the theme of the digital technologies applied to the cultural sector. > > Our mailing address is: > Promoter srl > Via Boccioni, Peccioli, PI, Italia > Peccioli, Toscana 56037 > Italy > > Add us to your address book > > > unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences > >