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Celebrating Digital Preservation Day: Why Scalable Digital Preservation Systems Should Be Everywhere

Preservica

On Digital Preservation Day 2017, Euan Cochrane, Digital Preservation Manager at Yale University Library , discusses the challenges of scale associated with vast collections of born-digital content. Do you know what you have in those collections that is unique?

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University of the Arts London selects Preservica for ambitious new digital preservation initiative

Preservica

UAL chooses Preservica’s secure AWS cloud-hosted active digital preservation platform to safeguard its unique art and design special collections. The aim is to consolidate unique digitised and born-digital material into a single trusted and accessible digital preservation system.

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Pending Updates to Regulations of Archives in Colombia

AIIM

This is an exercise that demonstrates that the law is not unchangeable and that, on the contrary, it can also be subject to improvement or flexibility when the circumstances and needs of society and institutions so warrant.

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Preserving content from closed systems part 3: Lotus Notes De-Commissioning and Preservation

Preservica

So if we decide we need to migrate to a digital preservation system we need to understand what is in a Notes Database. This is very flexible when creating applications but does not map well onto most Digital Preservation systems that have fixed hierarchies. Part 2 - Digital preservation of social media.

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Digital Archivist achieves more at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Preservica

Real-world digital preservation blog series: The Philadelphia Museum of Art. Marge Huang, Digital Archivist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art explains how Preservica’s digital preservation system, hosted in the cloud, enables her to get more accomplished and be more successful in her role.

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Keeping PAR on course: creating a generic protocol for the community

Preservica

The Preservation Action Registries (PAR) is a protocol that allows Digital Preservation practitioners, researchers and vendors to share information about preservation tools, actions, business rules and policies. Learning by doing.

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Join Our Webinar on November 16th: IGI & Preservica Address the Governance of Long-Term Digital Information

IGI

So as the benchmark study reported, the need for long-term digital preservation and access capabilities is pervasive. What challenges are practitioners experiencing with regard to making the business case for technology solutions that are purpose-built for the unique requirements of long-term digital protection and access?