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.
4 years project (development 32 months)
Consortium of 15 partners
Covering 3 media types (image, text and audio/video)
Open Source (GPLv3+ / MPLv2+)
Budget of 2.8 M€
The PREFORMA project
Development
Pre-design phase ~20 candidates
Design phase (4 months) with 6 suppliers
Prototyping phase (22 months) with 3 suppliers
Firts prototype
Re-design
Second prototype
Testing phase (6 months)
What is MediaConch?
MediaConch is a conformance checker
Implementation checker
Policy checker
Reporter
Fixer
What is MediaConch?
Implementation report:
Policy report:
MediaConch interfaces
Graphical interface
Web interface
Command line
Server (REST API)
(Work in progress) a library (.dll/.so/.dylib)
Design
Code base: C++
GUI: Qt4/Qt5 with Webkit/WebEngine
Web: PHP/Symfony
GUI and web version use the same interface (html/js)
