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

Preservica

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

Preservica

Well the good news is that Twitter has a very comprehensive API that allows you to extract everything about a tweet in JSON format including the text and plenty of metadata – everything you could possibly need for preservation. However, the challenge is that a tweet contains other information alongside the text and metadata.

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Preservica v6.0: next generation active digital preservation and discovery

Preservica

delivers enhanced ease-of-use and new ways of working for archives, libraries, museums and businesses - built on a highly scalable platform designed for the future of digital preservation. Boston, MA US and Oxford, UK | April 04 2019 | Digital preservation leaders, Preservica, today announced the next generation, v6.0,

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What Happens to Electronic Records in the Archives?

The Texas Record

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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Digitization vs. Digital Preservation

Preservica

Preservica's VP Marketing Alaine Behler recently sat down with our partner History Associates Incorporated (HAI) for a conversation about digitization vs digital preservation. When did the company get started with digital preservation and why? What is the difference between digitization and digital preservation?

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Preserving Content from Closed Systems Part 1: Office 365 & Google G-Suite digital preservation challenges

Preservica

Digital Preservation has always understood that information is complex but most practical implementations have worked with the concept that information is held in files that can easily be extracted from where they are created and initially consumed, and can be preserved in isolation from other files.