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How to convey the value of digital preservation

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james.carrPreservica Employee

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Job Alert! Derbyshire Record Office

Derbyshire Record Office, MatlockDerbyshire Record Office is a combined archives and local studies service based in the heart of the Derbyshire Dales, just outside the Peak District National Park. We are looking for an enthusiastic and confident archivist to join our friendly team and take responsibility for establishing digital preservation at the Record Office for the first time. As well as dealing with digital records, you will also spend one week in four in the archive searchroom, dealing with the full range of archival records and enquiries. Archivist (derbyshire.gov.uk)

2 days ago

DavidCommunity Manager

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Introduce yourself to the communityChat

Hi Community! I’m David, Starter Marketing Manager and part of the Community Hub team. It’s a pleasure to be here with you and have a chance to create this space for our global user community to connect, collaborate and share best practice and knowledge with each other. Feel free to introduce yourself here in the thread – you could share where you work, live, your role, and even how you are using Preservica at your organization. (Share your bigger Preservica story here). Why not add other interesting information about yourself or even a fun picture with your pet. This is the best way for all of us to get to know one another! I haven’t got any pets but my daughters keep me busy, so that’s the picture I’m sharing (hat strategically placed by my oldest ) I look forward to connecting with you all on the Community Hub! DavidDavid Portman

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17 days ago

Halley GroganPreservica Employee

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Seeking Presenters for Digital Records & Collection Management Webinar

Sharing the following call for participants from the SAA Electronic Records Section listserv. There are certainly some experienced folks out there in this Community Hub who could speak to all these topics. I hope some of you throw your name in the hat:The Collection Management Section will be hosting a webinar this spring on the theme of digital records and collection management, and we are actively seeking presenters!Do you have clever workflows for managing electronic (or hybrid) records and collections? What information are you tracking, and what tools are you using? What are some of the challenges or hurdles that you've encountered in implementing a system for managing electronic records? How do you distinguish between born-digital and digitized records (or do you)? How do you distinguish between donor-digitized materials and originals in a collection management system? If any of this sounds like something you are excited to present about, we would love to hear from you!We are look

17 days ago

bhouston82New Participant

Starter Editions

File Report in Starter?

Pretty sure I know the answer to this already, but: is there some way to get a breakdown of files with file sizes in one’s Starter Plus instance? I can do this file-by-file by looking at preservation history, and I can sort of do it folder-by-folder by presenting assets as a list, but obviously neither solution is really practicable at scale. (Context: I am trying to see how much space a group of raw camera images is taking up.) It would be extremely useful for space management purposes if there was something like this to assist with file appraisal.Thanks,Brad Houston, City Records OfficerMilwaukee Municipal Research Center

1 month ago

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How to guides

Bulk Metadata Editing in Preservica Starter

The Bulk Metadata Editing feature allows you to update, replace or clear a specific metadata field across multiple folders in one go.Please be aware that Bulk Metadata Editing is a powerful tool that will make permanent and irrevocable changes to your metadata. There is no preview or rollback functionality and the updates will be done in the background and may take some time depending on the number of assets affected.The steps below only apply where the DC or MODS metadata template already exists on the assets you want to edit.1. Login to Starter using your email address and password. The Home screen displays.2. Find the folder that contain the assets you want to update the metadata for.3. Right-click on the folder. To select multiple folders hold down the Ctrl key (on a Mac the Command key).The Actions menu displays, with the Bulk edit metadata options at the bottom.4. Choose step 2: Bulk edit metadata5. A message displays checking if a metadata template already exists:

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1 month ago

Katie GambonePreservica Employee

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[Watch Now, Q&A, and more] Invite your community to contribute digital materials to your archive

This December, Preservica was pleased to partner with the Library Journal to host a webinar for libraries (academic, public and more) on inviting your community to contribute digital content to your archive. Thank you to Amazon Web Services (AWS), a Preservica partner and partial sponsor of the workshop. In this hour-long session, @aubreys and guest presenter and archivist, Melissa Kent, talk about the key things to consider when collecting digital materials from the community and take a look at Preservica’s new community submission feature designed to simplify the process. Anyone can launch a digital collection and digital preservation program. Here are the webinar resources to explore on your own:Webinar Recording: View Slides:Webinar Slides Webinar Q&A: QUESTION ANSWER Where can I access the paper that talks about the importance of digital preservation for academic institutions? The link to the recently published CIO paper can be found here: Academ

1 month ago

Paul ClarkCommunity Manager

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Using Advanced search in Starter

The Advanced search function in Starter means you can quickly and easily search for content in your archive using the following:Target type Search in Date range Metadata filtering Results customizationWatch this video to learn more.

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1 month ago

Halley GroganPreservica Employee

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iPres 2023 - Call for Contributions

With the theme “Digital Preservation in Disruptive Times” iPRES 2023 will be held in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Topics include Digital Accessibility, Inclusion, and Diversity; Sustainably: Real and Imagined; We’re all in this together; From Theory to Practice; and Immersive Information. Deadline for proposals is March 10, 2023. Good luck!https://ipres2023.us/call-for-contributions/

1 month ago

annamayNew Participant

Starter Editions

Customization of Portal

Is is possible to customize the public portal at all in Preservica Starter? (If so, how?) Or is that limited to the other editions and/or to Universal Access?

1 month ago

JoanCurbowParticipating Frequently

Starter Editions

Sorting folders in Starter (staff interface)

It’s lovely to be able to sort ASSETS in Starter’s Staff interface, but I would like to be able to sort folders (especially by alpha). Anyone else find this to be a useful feature in a product update?

2 months ago

Halley GroganPreservica Employee

Events recommendations

iPres 2023 - Call for Contributions

1 month ago

annamayNew Participant

Starter Editions

Customization of Portal

Is is possible to customize the public portal at all in Preservica Starter? (If so, how?) Or is that limited to the other editions and/or to Universal Access?

1 month ago

JoanCurbowParticipating Frequently

Starter Editions

Sorting folders in Starter (staff interface)

2 months ago

Marcia JNew Participant

Starter Editions

Incomplete Upload

I am using Preservica Starter Plus. I uploaded a document on 10/22/22 (or thereabouts). The document uploaded but the box in the lower right claims it was not ingested. Do I need to find it and upload a second time? How do I find out which file it is?

2 months ago

kieranjolNew Participant

Starter Editions

Exporting AIPS - XIP access

I’m trying out the starter edition, and I can see some preservation/technical metadata in the main GUI. Does any edition of Preservica have an ‘AIP Export’ option, or perhaps just exporting this technical/preservation metadata in some form? I’ve seen bits and pieces in the community hub about XIP and XSL transforms to METS and PREMIS, but this doesn’t seem to be available to starer edition users? I’m mostly interested in seeing what kinds of information is exportable from Preservica. Best, Kieran O’LearyNational Library of Ireland

2 months ago

kieranjolNew Participant

Starter Editions

Is Starter edition significantly different from Professional/Enterprise?

I’ve been playing around with Starter edition in order to get a sense of what a full instance (Professional/Enterprise) would be like, and I’m starting to realise that they’re two very different products? Would I be correct in thinking that the logical data model and ingest/preservation workflows do not really apply here to the starter edition?

2 months ago

annamayNew Participant

Starter Editions

"Browse collection" leads to 404 error

I am trying to complete the Getting Started With Starter training activities. One of the instructions is to “click on Browse Archive” in the Public Portal. I don’t see a “browse archive” option, but I do see a “browse collection” option, so I clicked on that. It keeps resulting in an error that says “404: This page could not be found.” Does anyone know what causes this? Also, am I doing the correct thing by clicking on “browse collection,” since I don’t seem to have a “browse archive” option?

2 months ago

Harland HarrisNew Participant

Starter Editions

404 error. Are others seeing this?

I’ve checked several assets in multiple collections. The “view public” link from an asset in the staff interface results in a 404 error. The public version of the asset can still be accessed through navigation of the public portal.

2 months ago

alargeKnown Participant

Events recommendations

NAGARA in July?

Hi everyone-I was wondering if Preservica had any plans to attend the NAGARA conference in July 2023? I think I’m going to go this year!Thanks!Ashley

2 months ago

Marcia JNew Participant

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Starter eCourse Advertisement

How do I get the pop-up for the training program to go away? I have already signed up.

2 months ago

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