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Preservica International User Group 2019: meeting the future of digital preservation, together

Preservica

We shared success stories, networked, brainstormed and debated digital preservation futures at an event that has now become a significant gathering of digital preservation experts and practitioners from diverse sectors including national archives and libraries, local and central government, smaller archives and libraries and major corporations.

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Recap of the 2022 Best Practice Exchange/CoSA (un)conference

Preservica

The Best Practices Exchange (BPE) is one of those conferences that slips my radar until I need information about how the archives community is thinking about X (insert electronic records, born digital archives, digital preservation, etc. the websites and physical spaces in libraries and archives.

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Sharing format preservation information and how this will benefit us all

Preservica

World Digital Preservation Day is all about the global community coming together to share ideas and collaborate. So how can we all work more closely on sharing format preservation information and what is the value of doing this? The evolution of the Preservation Action Registries (PAR) initiative.

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#ourcovid19story

Preservica

We have been humbled by the response with over 40 institutions from government, education and major corporations coming forward so far to share how they are using or plan to use Preservica for different initiatives from capturing public record website bulletins to collecting and preserving video and oral histories from local communities.

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Open your archive – unlock the value: SAA Archives 2017

Preservica

At this year’s SAA there was a great deal of interest in Preservica’s new fully-redesigned Universal Access (UA) functionality, which combines the ability to selectively share valuable content and provide long-term digital preservation into one fully supported application. We look forward to seeing you again in Washington for #SAA18!

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Cross-Post from Out of the Stacks: How to Convert Your Home Movie Tapes to Digital

The Texas Record

Digitize your old home videos before it’s too late! Now may be a great time to consider digitizing your old home video movies that have been collecting dust in the closet. Unfortunately, we are facing the obsolescence of videotape and VCRs (Video Cassette Recorders).

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Preserving Content from Closed Systems Part 2: Digital Preservation of Social Media

Preservica

are the attached images or a video, for example. The files are typically small, with the exception of where Twitter is used for live streaming where the video can be many gigabytes. Of course the APIs themselves are now a critical part of the process.