Tackling the challenge of long term digital preservation through PCP The PREFORMA Project Anna Kasimati Studies and Programs Office, Greek Film Centre

The identity of Greek Film Centre  a public benefit non-profit legal entity  administratively and financially autonomous  operates in the public interest  main objective is support and co-produce Greek films  holds an extended movie database and archive  focusing to actions that further preserve, save and demonstrate

Role in the project A memory institution which contributes to:  the analysis of the requirements for the audio-visual domain  the provision of data sets for testing  the dissemination and the networking Principal domain of interest: audio-visual (films)

The identity of PREFORMA project  PREFORMA is a Pre-Commercial Procurement project co-funded by the European Commission under its FP7-ICT Programme.  Start: 1 January 2014  Duration: 48 month (end 31 December 2017)

The PREFORMA partners  Riksarkivet National Archives – Sweden (Coordinator)  Center of Expertise of Digital Heritage - Belgium  Promoter S.r.l - Italy  Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung del Angewandten Forschung Research Institute- Germany  University of Skövde - Sweden  University of Padua - Italy  The Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision - Netherlands  Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage - Belgium  Greek Film Center - Greece  Local Government Management Agency - Ireland  Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation - Germany  Girona City Council -Spain  Ministry of Culture - Estonia  National Library of Sweden - Sweden

Concept  The software used for implementing standards for the production of the electronic files is not in control neither by the institutions that produces them nor by the memory institutions.  Conformance tests of transfers are done by memory institutions, but are not totally reliable; different software for testing could end up in different results.  This poses problems in long-term preservation. Data objects meant for preservation, passing through an uncontrolled generative process, can jeopardise the whole preservation exercise.

Aim and Objectives  The aim: to address the challenge of implementing various good quality standardised file formats for preserving data content long term.  The main objective: to give memory institutions full control of the process of conformity tests of files to be ingested into archives.  The main objective of the PCP launched by PREFORMA: to develop and deploy an open source software licensed reference implementation for various file format standards, aimed for any memory institution (or other organisation with a preservation task) that wish to check conformance with a specific standard.

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