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Clearing Up the Confusion between Document Management Systems and Digital Preservation Systems

Preservica

To celebrate this year's Electronic Records Day on October 10th, guest authors Pari Swift, Jacqueline Johnson, and the Ohio Records Committee share their thoughts on the key differences between document management systems and digital preservation systems in this blog post. Read on to learn more about these two types of systems.

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Harvesting Preservica metadata to your library discovery layer using APIs - Case Study: Preservica to Ex Libris' Primo

Preservica

Why integrate a digital preservation system with a front-end discovery system? Here at The University of Manchester (UoM) we have been working on integrating Preservica, our digital preservation system, with Ex Libris Primo, our front-end discovery system. The final step was to surface it in Primo.

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Survey reports skills in technology and Digital Preservation will be most desired in the next five years

Preservica

The report includes data on each archive’s budget, collection size, staff recruitment and retention, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, DEI efforts, and accessibility practices. The digitization of archives makes it possible to access them from anywhere in the world, increasing the reach and accessibility of archival collections.

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Planning for Long-Term Access to COVID-19 Memory Websites

Archive-It

In this post, we give some thoughts to the long-term access of the materials collected from these websites. After the sunsetting, the site is not accessible at its original web address. There are many ways to preserve website content. The website, and the collection it contains, is hardly accessible as a virtual machine image.

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Learn more about web archiving with Archive-It Advanced Training

Archive-It

Access and description. Ever wonder how other organizations provide access to their web archives? Interested in boosting access to your own? Then check out the Access to Archive-It Collections training! Hear Archive-It partners and metadata experts discuss their approaches in the Describing Web Archives training.

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The stack: An introduction to the WARC file

Archive-It

It’s a digital preservation mantra: lots of copies keeps stuff safe (LOCKSS). And web archiving is a useful example — when sites change or disappear from the web, web archivists around the world have copies at the ready to maintain access to vital information resources. a standard container format. A look inside.

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Project WARC-Speed: Challenges and opportunities for web archiving programs

Archive-It

Through exploration of the external literature, internal policies, and my own hands-on experiences, I learned about four main challenges to a growing web archiving program: preservation intent, metadata standards, end user access, and consistent program stewardship. Metadata and end user access are deeply integrated.