Preservica

JUNE 8, 2020

Here are examples of how disk rot, a natural disaster, and data breaches can cause monumental losses. With a digital preservation strategy, your data can be stored securely either in the cloud or on premises. The data will be structured so that it is searchable via your metadata, and the content will be backed up and preserved.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 10, 2023

Elizabeth England, Senior Digital Preservation Specialist from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), then presented her lightning talk, Web archiving at NARA. This AWAC2 research example set the stage nicely for Web Archivist Karl Blumenthal’s Web Archives as Data section of the program.

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Archive-It

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Watch the recording and download the slides anytime for these and updates to the Internet Archive’s web data analysis platform, digital preservation service, scholarly research corpus, and web archiving community programs. We were thrilled to have these important discussions live and in-person again.

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The Texas Record

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In a digital preservation system both the original record and the migrated record are tied together as versions of the same thing. The digital repository managed by TSLAC includes the option to perform standardized migrations based upon rules we set as a last step in the ingest process to ensure that this necessary step is taken.

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Archive-It

MARCH 26, 2020

Here are some examples of what you will find: Managing collections. Hear Archive-It partners and metadata experts discuss their approaches in the Describing Web Archives training. You can always check out the highlights from our past trainings here in the Archive-It Help Center and register for the next upcoming webinars.

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Preservica

AUGUST 18, 2020

In my last blog I explored how online content management systems are making the preservation and trust of their digital content more difficult by wrapping the creation and storage of digital content into a single platform. Also, the links between tweets, for example replies or re-tweets, are difficult to represent in this way.

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Archive-It

APRIL 1, 2021

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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Brandeis Records Manager

MAY 20, 2016

I’ve lived through several such examples. We might substitute “agile” for “tactical” to illustrate with a few examples. Digital preservation solutions, increasingly a RIM/IG concern , are another example of where small and quick is replacing big and slow. These small-scale opportunities should be seized with vigor.

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ARMA International

AUGUST 8, 2019

If you do not understand what information you have, why you must retain it, or for how long, scanning may effectively replicate information management problems that exist in your paper files into your digital information environment. An obvious example is scanning files you no longer need or that are nearing the end of their lifecycle.

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Archive-It

MARCH 29, 2023

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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The Texas Record

JANUARY 25, 2021

In a digital preservation system both the original record and the migrated record are tied together as versions of the same thing. The digital repository managed by TSLAC includes the option to perform standardized migrations based upon rules we set as a last step in the ingest process to ensure that this necessary step is taken.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Gartner (2021) has two related definitions: Digital Transformation: “can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.” For example, IBM, Amazon Web Service, Microsoft, and Google offer AIaaS.

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Preservica

JANUARY 30, 2020

TfL started using Preservica’s cloud-based active digital preservation platform in 2013, after a drive to collect digital items relating to London’s 2012 Olympic Games from the organisation’s 27,000+ staff lead to a new digital collection exceeding 1TB of data. There will always be a human element to digital preservation.

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The preservation of legacy information from a Lotus Notes Database, often during an application de-commissioning process, is one of the most complex examples and compromises have to be made to manage the process smoothly. A Lotus Notes Database is in some ways similar to the Office 365 example discussed in an earlier blog.

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Archives Blogs

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Reference Code (file): AM1550-S07-F050-: There were a number of reasons that this particular series was chosen as the first series of born-digital records to be processed from the VANOC donation. We extracted the metadata from the images using exiftool , and exported it to a csv file. This was not straightforward.

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Preservica

JUNE 26, 2018

Real-world digital preservation blog series: Boston City Archives. Digitization and public access. Seeing the rising tide of both digitized and born-digital material prompted Boston City Archives to select and start using Preservica’s active digital preservation software in 2016.

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Preservica

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Fans of the latest Star Wars saga Rogue One will notice that Digital Archiving forms a prominent part in the new film. This is good news for all of us in the industry, as we can use it as an example of how we are working every day to ensure the durability and security of our content.

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CILIP

AUGUST 6, 2020

s state-of-the-art automated storage facilities (the National Newspaper Building and the Additional Storage Building) and meet the digitization, digital preservation and metadata staff in Boston Spa, all sessions were held at the Library?s With the exception of an excursion on Day 3 to tour the Library?s Pancras site.

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Preservica

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Digital Preservation Architectures. Some migration is required to at least some of the content in digital preservation systems (albeit, as I said in my last post, it is more common to do this for presentation rather than preservation reasons). When migration is needed, it often needs to be done in high volumes.

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Preservica

AUGUST 22, 2018

Real-world digital preservation blog series: The Waddesdon Archive. Catherine commented: “In my six years with the archive, I’ve worked hard to make our senior leadership team see the benefits of digital preservation with access, where the past of a historic site informs its present and future.

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Preservica

APRIL 11, 2018

Preservica’s cloud-hosted active digital preservation platform will future-proof tens of thousands of unique heritage, brand, product design and corporate assets. It is the UK's largest example of an employee-owned business where all 85,500 staff are Partners in the business. The business has annual gross sales of over £11.5bn.

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