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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

A staggering 81 percent of archives administrators report that skills related to technology and systems, such as digital asset management and Digital Preservation , are the most important to the staff in their department and will remain so in the coming years.

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Learn more about web archiving with Archive-It Advanced Training

Archive-It

Hear Archive-It partners and metadata experts discuss their approaches in the Describing Web Archives training. by Jillian Lohndorf, Web Archivist for Archive-It. There are lots of ongoing training opportunities for web archivists of all experience levels. Here are some examples of what you will find: Managing collections. Technology review.

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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). This pace befits a long-term archival container for material that is exposed to such notoriously rapid change on the live web, so we might be excused for not thinking too much about the digital box into which we shelve all these materials. A WARC is….

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

Archive-It

There are many ways to preserve website content. There are many ways to preserve website content. They can be ephemeral and personal, yet universal at the same time as the pandemic is experienced by all over the world. Some of these COVID-19 memory websites were put up with a shoestring. These websites incur cost over the years too.

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For safekeeping: An automated preservation workflow for Archive-It content

Archive-It

In this blog post, I’ll describe the University of Georgia Libraries’ almost entirely automated workflow for preserving a copy of our Archive-It content locally. We appreciate that Archive-It provides very good digital preservation for the copies they maintain. Why Keep a Local Copy? Archive-It APIs.