Workshops, testbeds and public meetings from the life of the project.
2012Workshop
PrestoPRIME Final Test Workshop
To run a final evaluation on the results of the PrestoPRIME project and to give interested parties another chance to probe and test the project results and tools, PrestoPRIME organised a final test workshop at Ina in Bry sur Marne, Paris, on 12 and 13 September 2012. The morning presented, explained and discussed the PrestoPRIME systems, tools and solutions. The afternoon offered hands on testing, further discussion and dedicated tool sessions. Attendance was free and open to experts in the domain.
Ina, Bry sur Marne, Paris. 12 and 13 September 2012.
A follow up conference in the Screening the Future series on audiovisual archiving and digital preservation.
May 2012.
2011Testbed
Second PrestoPRIME Testbed event, Turin
Organised by RAI in their research building in Turin from 7 to 10 November 2011 under the supervision of ORF and RAI experts. All project partners were present during the three days, with seven demonstration work spaces distributed in three zones following the OAIS model: production and delivery, archive, and access. The testbeds presented the latest developments to potential users and collected feedback on performance and user friendliness. More than 50 participants from 10 countries took part. For the first time many of the systems were presented in an integrated display where components were interconnected and could be tested in sequence.
RAI research building, Turin. 7 to 10 November 2011.
2011Conference
Screening the Future 2011 and the launch of the AV Competence Centre
The new audiovisual competence centre was launched during the Screening the Future 2011 conference in Amsterdam on 14 and 15 March 2011. The centre is a membership driven, nonprofit organisation serving stakeholders in audiovisual digitisation and digital preservation in Europe. It continues and expands the work of the EU funded Presto projects. The centre is an initiative of five large national audiovisual and broadcast archives in Europe: BBC, Ina, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, ORF and RAI.
Amsterdam. 14 and 15 March 2011.
2010Workshop
PrestoPRIME Digital Preservation Workshop, London
A year after PrestoPRIME presented its work programme, the project presented results. The workshop covered costs, benefits, risks and standards, and the gaps between digital preservation technology and audiovisual archiving, between metadata and the processes needed for internet technology and access, between audiovisual collections, and between individual collections and the opportunities offered by aggregation with Europeana.
A whole week in October 2010 was dedicated to a concerted evaluation of the technical work packages at BBC Centre House. More than 25 members from archive partners and developing partners attended. The event gave archive partners and technical partners a complete overview of the status of tools, methods and related developments, and prepared the consolidation of the tools in a concerted system.
BBC Centre House, London. 19 to 22 October 2010.
2009Workshop
First PrestoPRIME dissemination event, Vienna
The first dissemination event introduced the PrestoPRIME programme and its Competence Centre. About 100 people with a common interest in digital audiovisual content met on 5 and 6 October 2009. The programme presented the project summary, audiovisual preservation strategies, implementation, digital access metadata and system integration. The second day was organised around four discussion areas: problems with files, service providers, access, and non broadcast archives.
The European project PrestoPRIME was launched on 7 April 2009 in Paris at the Centre d'accueil pour la presse étrangère, Grand Palais, Perron Alexandre III, cours la Reine, Paris 8e.
The PrestoPRIME project held a seminar on 24 March 2009 in Turin at the Museo della Radio e della Televisione, Centro di Produzione RAI, via G. Verdi 16. The original page linked to a photo index and to TGR video coverage.
Training record. The PrestoCentre professional development series is described in full on the training and dissemination page. Public reports from the project are listed under public results.
