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How one Canadian museum is using Digital Preservation to protect immigrant voices

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We have mastered the long-term care of art and artifacts, but we must expand our purview to become good stewards of digital content - both digitized materials and items that are born digital – as well.”. The proactive approach to Digital Preservation. The Museum has a small IT and Collections team.”

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Digital Asset Management (DAM) and Digital Preservation - What’s the difference?

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The terms Digital Asset Management and Digital Preservation are often seen as two sides of the same coin. We’ll be digging into the differences in a lot more detail in our upcoming 3-part virtual education series run in conjunction with Henry Stewart Events. The power of combining DAM and Digital Preservation.

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

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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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Using digital preservation in real time to document the global pandemic for future generations

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In May this year we invited Preservica users to share their own COVID-19 stories with the wider community – six archivists from a range of sectors took to the virtual stage and shared their plans of action, explaining how they’re using digital preservation in real time to address the challenges and opportunities presented by the pandemic.

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Integrating Long-Term Digital Preservation into Your Information Governance Program: First Steps

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More importantly, IG practitioners who participated in the survey indicated that they were aware hardware and software obsolescence represents a threat to the usability and readability of long-term digital information and records. For the time being, long-term digital preservation is a future area of focus on the IG roadmap.

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Preservica launches cloud hosted digital preservation in Australia

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Boston, MA, and Oxford, UK | 16 May 2018 | Preservica has today announced that its market-leading range of cloud hosted (SaaS) active digital preservation and access solutions are now available on the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) region. Learn more and register here. About Preservica.

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The Fenway Library Organization provides affordable digital preservation to its members

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Preservica, the market leader in SaaS-based active digital preservation, is pleased to announce that the Fenway Library Organization (FLO) has selected Preservica’s Cloud Edition for consortia to preserve and safeguard digital content for its members.