PREFORMA – PREservation FORMAts for culture information/e-archives: Future Memory Standards

PREFORMA – PREservation FORMAts for culture information/e-archives: Future Memory Standards
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PREFORMA – PREservation FORMAts for culture information/e-archives – is a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) project co-funded by the European Commission, under its FP7-ICT Programme.

Memory institutions are facing increasing transfers of electronic documents and other media content for long-term preservation. Preservation models are often inspired by ISO 14721:2012, known as “the OAIS model”, where transfers and preservation are built on information packages containing both data and metadata.