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How to convey the value of digital preservation

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Paul ClarkCommunity Manager

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Starter eLearning Training Course

Welcome to the Starter eLearning page.Accelerate your digital preservation expertise & skills by enrolling for our Starter eLearning training course. By joining this on-demand training course you will become certified in digital preservation using Preservica Starter and receive a badge which you can share on your LinkedIn profile and with peers in recognition of your achievement.Here’s just a few of the benefits of enrolling on the course::Work at your own pace and complete training courses when it suits you Receive training through a variety of interactive and highly engaging methods Track your own progress and reflect on what you’ve achieved Get early access to new feature training Optional enrolment to access new training on digital preservation best practicesIt couldn’t be easier to enrol and get going on the Starter eLearning training, simply send an email to learning@preservica.com with your name and email address, and let our team do the rest. Confirmation emails will be sen

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Sean McGauleyCommunity Manager

Global User Group 2022 - Boston, MA

[Slides] Roundtable Session - New Portal

See the slides from this roundtable discussion with Preservica’s Kate Broadfield (Product Manager). During this session, Kate reviewed the latest updates to the Preservica portal, including a look at customization, enhanced search, and more.Slides 📰@kate.broadfield

3 days ago

Marcia JNew Participant

Starter Editions

Is Aubrey still available to help with questions?

I would like some guidance and have worked with Aubrey once before. Is she still available?

18 days ago

Sean McGauleyCommunity Manager

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[In the News] Library of Birmingham's awesome archival project 👻

Have you heard the history of the three “ghost” playgrounds from postwar Birmingham? Now with the recently archived "Let Us Play Project" from the Library of Birmingham, future generations can learn about this unique history. 👉Read the full story here Congrats on this important project, @Michael Hunkin 👏! I loved these pictures from the article including one with digitized cine film footage, Booth Street Adventure Playground, as it appears in Preservica.

23 days ago

Sean McGauleyCommunity Manager

Global User Group 2022 - Boston, MA

[Video & Slides] User Spotlight - Paige Monlux, Multnomah County

Multnomah County’s Digital Archivist, Paige Monlux (@paige.monlux) presents her User Spotlight Session: The Archives Contest - Meaningful Staff Engagement Can Be All Fun and GamesSlides 📰 Video 🎬 (embedded below)

24 days ago

Steve CrawfordCommunity Manager

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Best Practices Exchange and Council of State Archivists (CoSA) Joint (un)Conference 2022: Community Approaches to Digital Initiatives

Shout out to Preservica users @cbirch, @KariLMay, and @bthomas who are presenting at the BPE/CoSA Joint (un)Conference in Nashville in September 2022. These sessions are sure to inform, excite and inspire: Crawling into the Collection: Aligning Web Archiving with Traditional Archival Practice. Caitlin Birch, Assistant Archivist for Digital Collections, Dartmouth CollegeEarly stages of web archiving initiatives are often driven by urgency. Web-based material is at high risk of loss due to the ephemerality of the internet and this risk, combined with an overwhelming volume of websites and the limited resources available to many institutions, often leads to abandonment of traditional archival methods when collecting the web. Archivists opt for broadly scoped captures of top-level domains, leaving behind the appraisal, arrangement, description, and discovery work applied to collections in more familiar formats. In this session, a Dartmouth College archivist makes the case for aligning web

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Getting Started with Preservica Starter: How to Search for ContentTutorial

1.1 Login to Starter using your email address and Password.The Home screen will display.1.2 The Search bar is at the top of the screen, next to the Welcome section.1.3 To search simply type in the keyword that you want to find.Note: the search will look at all content not just the folder/asset name or titleFor example the above search for the word ‘sunset’ returned 3 results; Once where the word ‘sunset’ is in the title of an imageTwice where the word ‘sunset’ is included in the content of the asset, i.e. in the ebook of Dracula.1.4 From here you can view each result.

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29 days ago

lpeaurtKnown Participant

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Preservica Users - meet up at iPres?

Hi all,I will be attending iPres in September and wondered (if we can fit it in during the programme!) if any other Preservica users would be interested in having an informal catch up whilst there? Always great to meet and talk with other product users! ThanksLaura

29 days ago

dclipshamNew Participant

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iPres 2022 Glasgow - Say hello!

Hi everybody, I’m looking forward to my first iPres as a Preservica employee!Many of us from the Innovation, Product, and Marketing teams will be in attendance and we’ll be having an extremely busy iPres – including discussing File Format Registries on the morning of Monday 12 September, delivering five(!) lightning talks on Tuesday 4-5:30pm, and participating in the ‘Bake-Off’ sessions throughout Wednesday to demonstrate features such as Auto-Preservation.I’m excited to meet Preservica users – many of you I know already, but many more I’m sure I don’t, so please feel free to say hi! I’m especially keen to hear about how I can help with any challenges relating to file formats, from identification, through migration, to rendering and anything else in-between.The full programme can be found here: ipres2022 (eventsair.com), and more detail about Preservica’s involvement can be found here: iPres 2022 Glasgow, Mon, 12 Sep. 2022 at 09:00, Europe/Dublin | Community (preservica.com).I hope to

29 days ago

Sean McGauleyCommunity Manager

Global User Group 2022 - Boston, MA

[Video & Slides] Roundtable Session - Working with APIs

In this interactive roundtable discussion, Preservica’s Andy Dean (Solutions Architect) and Katie Gambone (Channel Marketing and Business Development) provide an introduction to getting started with Preservica’s extensive API library.Slides 📰 Video 🎬 (embedded below) More on working with APIs👉 Visit our Developer website to learn more about working with APIs @Katie Gambone @andy.dean@preservica.com

30 days ago

Marcia JNew Participant

Starter Editions

Is Aubrey still available to help with questions?

I would like some guidance and have worked with Aubrey once before. Is she still available?

18 days ago

alargeKnown Participant

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Downloading TIFF Files

Hi Everyone,I have a quantity of building plans that I have uploaded into Preservica as TIFFs. As you can imagine, they are pretty large files. I wanted to download one of them and when I went to download the True Original, I got a Notepad file filled with random characters. I need to know that I can get to these files whenever I need them so this is not ideal. Any advice for a confused archivist?Thanks!Ashley

1 month ago

BrandonNew Participant

Starter Editions

The request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax.

We recently uploaded content to our archive and all of it provides the following error message:The request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax.The first item we uploaded months ago still opens fine.

1 month ago

juliarosenzwNew Participant

Starter Editions

Add-on features

Hi folks, Does anyone know where exactly I can browse the add-ons and features available with Starter (both free and for purchase)? Thanks!Julia

2 months 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

Remco van VeenendaalParticipating Frequently

Practical Digital Preservation for Government

How to do advanced search 'greater than' in 5.11 EE

Hi community, I'd like to find large web archives (WARC) in our 5.11 EE repository. e.g. all larger than 1 GB.Or sort all WARCs on file size.The reason for this is that we experiment with what to do with the metadata extracted from embedded objects from WARCs.Especially the larger WARCs currenty slow down our repository because all extracted metadata seems to be stored in a single (clob) database field.It this search/sort possible and does anyone know how to do it? Thanks,Remco van VeenendaalDigital Preservation Officer @ National Archives of the Netherlands

3 months ago

JoanCurbowParticipating Frequently

Starter Editions

non-Adobe PDFs

Question about PDF creation: I don’t have Adobe available to me through my institution (cost-prohibitive, they tell me), so they encourage me to eitherUse FoxIt or Save as Microsoft PDFThoughts, suggestions?

3 months ago

aglazerNew Participant

Starter Editions

Can't Delete Folder

I’m trying to delete an empty folder I no longer need in my collection, but I keep getting the error message “Deletion request failed.” When I click into Home > Parent Folder, the folder I attempted to delete is no longer there, but I can still see/click/access it on the side menu. Is there a step I’m missing here?

3 months ago

Marcia JNew Participant

Starter Editions

Uploading Google Docs into Preservica

Our organization has recently adopted Google Drive for consistent storage. I can’t seem to upload Google Docs to Preservica. It would seem from browsing the community hub that Google Docs are not even documents! Does this mean I have to have a parallel storage of Microsoft Office to upload?

4 months ago

DavidCommunity Manager

Digital Preservation Sustainability

Session recording & slides now available!

Thank you to our panel of experts from Vermont State Archives, San Jose State University and Preservica for an excellent session exploring the new, independently ratified Sustainability Charter for assessing the long-term durability of digital preservation service providers. If you missed the main event or would like to share with colleagues and peers, you can access a copy of the recordings and PDF of the slides using the links below. Watch the recordingDownload the slides

5 months ago

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