The materials from our latest webinar are now available. This webinar presented the results of recent development and our plans for life after PREFORMA. It covered: Improvements to the veraPDF policy checker aimed to make it easier for users to create custom policies. Real world policies produced by the veraPDF consortium for PREFORMA acceptance testing. Common […]
19 September | 15:00 CEST The PREFORMA project that commissioned and funded the development of veraPDF draws to an end this year. Recent activity has been focused on PREFORMA acceptance testing, formalising the decisions of the PDF Association’s Technical Working Group and fixing issues reported by the community. In this webinar, we’ll be presenting the results […]
Sign up for the ‘PDF/A Challenges and Validation Tools’ Short Course by veraPDF at the IS&T Archiving Conference on Monday 15 May in Riga, Latvia. The course comprises presentations and practical demonstrations that provide an introduction to the PDF/A format, its applications, and how institutions can use veraPDF software in their PDF/A workflows. Limited places […]
The recording and slides from our latest webinar are now available: veraPDF policy checking recording veraPDF policy checking slides For more information and examples of veraPDF feature reporting and policy checking, take a look at our documentation site: http://docs.verapdf.org/policy/.
Join us for our next webinar exploring the veraPDF policy checker The veraPDF software is capable of more than just PDF/A validation. veraPDF also provides a policy checker capable of carrying out custom PDF document checks beyond the scope of PDF/A validation. Examples of custom checks include highlighting the use of particular fonts or image formats, […]
The PREFORMA project ran a webinar series throughout September. The final webinar focused on veraPDF. Overview The PREFORMA project’s prototyping phase finishes at the end of 2016. The veraPDF consortium will be producing a v1.0 release candidate of the software library and applications in December 2016. This webinar demonstrates the current state of veraPDF development […]
The PREFORMA project is running a webinar series throughout September. Each webinar will focus on one of the three open source conformance checkers for TIFF; Matroska, FFV1, & PCM, and PDF/A. The webinars will: introduce the PREFORMA project update participants on the current status of the conformance checkers demonstrate the software outline future plans give […]
Following the successful Open Source Workshop, organised in Stockholm in April this year, the PREFORMA project invites all the members of the digital preservation community to attend the Experience Workshop – Improving long-term digital preservation, which will be held in Berlin on November 23, 2016. The aim of the workshop is to demonstrate the use of the conformance […]
Programme: Background and context, Börje Justrell (10 mins) The PCP/PPI instrument and how it is implemented in PREFORMA, Antonella Fresa (10 mins) The PREFORMA Challenge, Bert Lemmens (10 mins) How to contribute and next appointments, Claudio Prandoni (10 mins) Q&A Outline: Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) is a competition-like method designed to steer the development of innovative […]
Registration is now open to attend the Open Source Preservation Workshop. Organised by the PREFORMA project (http://www.preforma-project.eu/), it is the first in a series of international events planned by this international consortium of technology and content providers, working together on one of the main challenges memory institutions are facing nowadays: the long-term preservation of digital data. The workshop […]