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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. Click below to watch the replay of this educational webinar.

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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. Start your Digital Preservation journey today!

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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. For in-depth introductions and demonstrations of how to use them, see the training webinars on the “Brozzler” capture tool and the open APIs available for digital preservation and developers.

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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). But to preserve and manage them in the longest term, it helps to know what WARCs are and are not –what they can and cannot do for future users of web archives. Want to know more about a tool in our web archiving toolbox? A look inside.

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

Archive-It

Export website contents to collections management systems Contents from a COVID-19 memory website, along with their metadata, can be exported, transformed, and imported into long-lasting collections management systems for preservation and access. If the website depends on web services of today to function (e.g.,

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

Archive-It

We appreciate that Archive-It provides very good digital preservation for the copies they maintain. many cases, they are either our only documentation of something (e.g. We do have the luxury of an in-house digital preservation system, so there is a good place to put the local copies. Why Keep a Local Copy?