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Paul ClarkCommunity Manager

AI in Archives Group

Updated Introduction to AI-powered Active Digital Preservation academy course

Hi all, the latest Introduction to AI-powered Active Digital Preservation academy course has been published and is now available on our eLearning platform, Docebo. This includes updates to the Metadata Quality Control feature.If you have previously

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Sarah PearceCommunity Manager

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Preservica User Group at CoSA 2026

Preservica User Group at CoSA 2026Wednesday, September 23 | 9–11amJoin the Preservica User Group for a hands-on session at CoSA 2026. This group brings together CoSA members who use, or are considering, the Preservica platform to trade workflows, ask

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Rosie ClarkeCommunity Manager

Using Unified search to find Preservica assets in MS365 (8 mins)

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Sarah PearceCommunity Manager

AI in Archives Group

Which AI tool are you finding most useful?

Hi everyone, I’d love to know which of our AI tools you’re finding the most useful. Let us know in the poll below:

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Rosie ClarkeCommunity Manager

Preservica Security Testing Overview

This document is designed as a customer‑facing assurance overview that can be shared internally with Legal, Privacy, Information Security, Compliance, and Risk stakeholders when evaluating or approving the use of Preservica’s SaaS platform, it forms

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Rosie ClarkeCommunity Manager

Preservica Data Residency & Access Governance Overview

This document is designed as a customer‑facing assurance overview that can be shared internally with Legal, Privacy, Information Security, Compliance, and Risk stakeholders when evaluating or approving the use of Preservica’s SaaS platform, it forms

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Navigation & Collection Management

Change thumbnail

The Change thumbnail function allows you to apply an external image as a thumbnail for a folder or asset in Starter. The thumbnail applied to the folder is only visible in the Public portal and if the folder is set to public.Note: Supported image for

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Sarah PearceCommunity Manager

AI in Archives Group

Help us shape the future of AI in record discovery and appraisal

Record discovery and appraisal is one of the biggest challenges archivists tell us about, and it's an area we're actively exploring for our product roadmap - but we need your help! Join our product team on 11 August to see how human-centric AI can su

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Sarah PearceCommunity Manager

AI in Archives Group

Welcome to the AI in Archives Group!

Welcome and thank you for joining the AI in Archives group. 🤝This group is designed exclusively for Preservica users to share ideas, help shape these powerful new capabilities and discuss best practice with other members. Feel free to get involved, a

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Sarah PearceCommunity Manager

AI in Archives Group

Try AI-powered OCR: already live in your instance

Your AI Editions trial is live right now, which means AI-powered OCR is available to you today. Have you tried it yet?Here's what it changes. James Shaw, Corporate Archivist at Iceland Foods, put it like this:"Searching our archive used to mean days

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Sarah PearceCommunity Manager

AI in Archives Group

Which AI tool are you finding most useful?

Hi everyone, I’d love to know which of our AI tools you’re finding the most useful. Let us know in the poll below:

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Kelly-CollinsNew Participant

Starter Editions

M4A audio files defaulting to Video in 'type'

Hello, when testing ingest of a folder with DC metadata, all is going ok except an M4A audio file which renders as ‘Video’ in the automated ‘Type’ field. The metadata I have uploaded for this file has the type (MIME type) as audio/mp4. Is it renderin

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James GrimsterNew Participant

Starter Editions

Maximum size WARC files for ReplayWeb viewer in Starter

Hello, we are currently researching using Starter for the archving of a not for profit community website. When we produce, with a crawler, a test crawl of the site producing a 1GB file, the WARC file is shown correctly in the viewer.When we do a ful

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dglynnParticipating Frequently

Starter Editions

Change Thumbnail not working

For the past several days, I have attempted to change thumbnails for assets and folders but there is always an error message. The photos I am trying to use are under 10MB and are jpgs. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

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emryanNew Participant

Starter Editions

Files not uploading properly

File are not uploading properly. I am either receving an error meassage stating the upload failed, or, I am receiving a message stating the upload was successful, yet the image does not appear. Please tell me someone can fix this soon!

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heycareyNew Participant

Starter Editions

No File Formats Normalizing

None of the file formats I’ve uploaded are creating a preservation format or access copy. I'm getting an error message in the process monitor that says: Error executing tool LibreOffice CLI on file.

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rjstewart3New Participant

Starter Editions

A-Z sort by not sorting correctly in the public portal

Hello,I seem to be having an issue with the public portal and sorting ascending A-Z. The typical title will be “<title>, Spring <year>” and “<title>”, Fall <year>”. This will, of course, sort everything by year, but put Fall

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ciara.oakley-robbinsNew Participant

Starter Editions

Making Assets Public

Hello, I am uploading photos today and for some reason every time I change the security tag to public, I refresh the page and it automatically goes back to private. In this folder here it will only let certain photos be public, I want them all public

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Starter Editions

Error Message when ingesting files with bulk upload

I received the following error message “There was a problem with your ingest package. Browser upload failed, please try again.” A screenshot is attached.I’m using the new template for bulk upload (DC.csv). I’ve tried uploading the files four differen

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kmbuergeNew Participant

Job posting: Digital Records Archivist, Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vt.)

Apply online at: https://apply.workable.com/middleburycollege/j/8C8180846A/DescriptionThe Digital Records Archivist is responsible for the accessioning, processing, arrangement, description, preservation, and access of digitized and born-digital mate

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