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kriskNew Participant

Starter Editions

Why are my tiffs converting to jpg?

Hello all! I am ingesting some image files. I have these files scanned as .tifs but when I ingest them into Preservica they seem to convert to .jpgs. I am basing this on the file size changing (becoming smaller) in the metadata, and also on the asset

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mmacinskyParticipating Frequently

AI in Archives Group

Does MQC do subject heading remediation?

Does the Metadata Quality Check AI feature do subject heading reconciliation against known controlled vocabularies, like Library of Congress Subject Headings? This would be helpful for us in our remediation efforts.

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Paul ClarkPreservica Employee

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 PearcePreservica Employee

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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 ClarkePreservica Employee

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

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Sarah PearcePreservica Employee

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 ClarkePreservica Employee

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 ClarkePreservica Employee

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 PearcePreservica Employee

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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kriskNew Participant

Starter Editions

Why are my tiffs converting to jpg?

Hello all! I am ingesting some image files. I have these files scanned as .tifs but when I ingest them into Preservica they seem to convert to .jpgs. I am basing this on the file size changing (becoming smaller) in the metadata, and also on the asset

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mmacinskyParticipating Frequently

AI in Archives Group

Does MQC do subject heading remediation?

Does the Metadata Quality Check AI feature do subject heading reconciliation against known controlled vocabularies, like Library of Congress Subject Headings? This would be helpful for us in our remediation efforts.

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Sarah PearcePreservica Employee

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

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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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