The Presto4U project supports the establishment of the PrestoCentre Foundation to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing around digital audiovisual preservation. PrestoCentre brings together archives, commercial partners, and researchers to enhance long-term access to cultural heritage through communities of practice, tools, services, and policy recommendations. It has over 100 archive and affiliate members and 20 commercial members internationally.

1. The Presto4U project supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) — Grant Agreement 600845
Presto4U —Technology for Digital
Audiovisual Media Preservation
Daniel Teruggi
dteruggi@ina.fr
Europeana Projects Group Assembly
Den Haag, 25 - 26/09/2013

2. 2 Presto4u - Technology for Digital Audiovisual Media Preservation: www.presto4u.eu / www.prestocentre.org
 Originates from Presto, PrestoSpace, PrestoPRIME
 Membership-driven organisation
 Brings together a global community of stakeholders in audiovisual
digitisation and digital preservation to share, work and learn.
 PrestoCentre works with experts, researchers, advocates,
businesses, public services, educational organisations and
professional associations to enhance the audiovisual sector's ability
to provide long-term access to cultural heritage.
 As intermediary, PrestoCentre Foundation offers a valuable
platform by connecting and facilitating interactions between these
groups.
PRESTOCENTRE
MISSION AND ROLE (1)

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 For smaller archives, PrestoCentre provides services to connect,
share experiences and learn from early adopting organisations.
 For larger archives, PrestoCentre offers structured ways to
collaborate and share knowledge more effectively.
 For research and commercial organisations, PrestoCentre functions
as a market and technology watch and helps in the evaluation and
transfer of new R&D and commercial output.
 PrestoCentre also works with advocates, public services and
professional associations, to forge closer ties with government,
industry, and academia.
PRESTOCENTRE
MISSION AND ROLE (2)

4. 4 Presto4u - Technology for Digital Audiovisual Media Preservation: www.presto4u.eu / www.prestocentre.org
PRESTOCENTRE
VALUES
Responsive
Energizer
Outcome Driven
Trusted
Passionate
Caring
Proactive
Networking
Strategic
P R E TS O C E NTR E
Tools & Services

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PRESTOCENTRE
100 ARCHIVAL AND AFFILIATE MEMBERS, 250 INDIVIDUALS
• Europeana Foundation
• Bridgeman Art Library
• Brown University
• Centre Pompidou
• Austrian Filmarchiv
• HBO
• Irish Film Archive
• Jazz at Lincoln Center
• Finnish National Audiovisual
Archive
• MGM Studios
• National Library of Norway
• RTE
• Smithsonian
• New Zealand Film Archive
• Serbian Broadcasting Corporation
• National Archives of Singapore
• And others

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PRESTOCENTRE
20 COMMERCIAL MEMBERS
• Audiovisual Pres. Solutions
• Booz & Company do Brasil
• Cambridge Imaging
• Deluxe
• Doremi
• Front Porch Digital
• Hollywood Vaults
• hVault
• Media Matters
• Memnon
• MWA Nova
• Nirvanix
• NVT Digital
• Oracle
• Thought Equity Motion
• MediaPreserve
• And others.

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PRESTOCENTRE
MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES
Full
Institutional -
Level 1
Full
Insitutional -
Level 2
Associate
Institutional
Commercial

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PRESTOCENTRE
SHARE, WORK AND LEARN TOGETHER
Tech watch,
AV Insider,
workshops,
preservathons, etc
Library, dicussion
forum, registries,
newslettters,
collaboration

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PRESTOCENTRE
INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN
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PRESTOCENTRE
SHARE, WORK AND LEARN TOGETHER

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Coordination Action, to
 Create a series of AV Communities of Practice
 Develop a body of knowledge on the status of digital preservation
practice, outstanding problems and needs for access to research
results and new technologies
 Identify useful results of research, new and old, into digital
audiovisual preservation
 Promote the take-up of, and identify the barriers, to promising
research results by users, technology vendors and service providers
 Sustain and maintain the resulting knowledge, tools and services
PRESTO4U
PROJECT OBJECTIVES

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PRESTO4U
PARTNERS
1. NEDERLANDS INSTITUUT VOOR BEELD EN GELUID, Netherlands
2. DET DANSKE FILMINSTITUT*DANISH FILMINSTITUTE, Denmark
3. TATE GALLERY TATE, United Kingdom
4. TV2, Denmark
5. CINECITTA' LUCE, Italy
6. BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION, United Kingdom
7. ISTITUT NATIONAL DE L’AUDIOVISUEL, France
8. RADIOTELEVISIONE ITALIANA, Italy
9. MOVING MEDIA, Ireland
10. KING'S COLLEGE, United Kingdom
11. CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE, Italy
12. IT INNOVATION, United Kingdom
13. EURIX, Italy
14. JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria

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PRESTO4U
SHORT AND LONG TERM ACTIONS AND RESULTS
• Establishment of Communities of
Practice, expert groups, and
comparative analysis
• Techwatch (ongoing, first report
December 2013)
• Development of test dataset of AV
objects and formats
• Assessment of research results
• Standards register
• Report on AV Technology Take-Up
• Assessment of research results
• Recommendations on Rights
Technology
• Recommendations on Standards
• A set of community services around
how to use what software, where to
find these, and how to share your
own tools
• Impact analyses

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 Brief project overview at www.presto4u.eu
 Contact us at: office@prestocentre.org
 Telephone: 035-6771682
The PrestoCentre Communities of Practice
are newly forming, so it’s a great time to join:
www.prestocentre.org/communities
PRESTO4U
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