Introduce yourself to the community

Hello everyone!

I am Kate Broadfield, platform product manager at preservica, starting as core product owner at the end of 2021, working closely with our engineers and madly learning how Preservica works, paving the path to a delightful and easy preservation future for us all. 

I am interested to learn how some of you might be using our APIs and if there is anything additional you might need.  Meanwhile I am supporting our new product development in building the right product and building it right, in order to serve you effectively.

Behind the scenes we are working to modernise our system and streamline our ways of working.

On a personal note, I love to balance the tech such as with promoting live music, improving my garden for all year interest, making it a happy place for both the birds and our 2 cats! I love seeing nature better through the process of photographing or drawing. 

As a transplant to England from New England, I love discovering cultural differences across the pond. I am a glass-half-full person so my favourite bit about remote working is that every day can be ‘take-your-cat-to-work day’!

Have a lovely day and I look forward to meeting you.

All the best,

kate

I’m Freya Anderson from the Alaska Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums.  I work with two sections here, each of which use Preservica in different ways. Our Government Publications program uses mostly S3 storage for content that is in Preservica for both preservation and access, so the Universal Access aspect is important.  Our Historical Collections already has the access pieces in place (a shared ContentDM portal for most content and YouTube for videos), so we’re primarily using Preservica Glacier storage for long term preservation of high resolution files.

One thing that’s frustrating to us is that so much of the training and meetings are scheduled based on other time zones, so often we’re either attending at 5 am or stuck with recordings.  I love that this is a international group, but that’s too early for even our morning people, and I’m not a morning person!  It seems like there might be enough people in a similar boat to justify an Americas or US users group, where meetings or trainings would be scheduled during business hours for time zones from Eastern through Alaska, or better yet, through Hawaii-Aleutian.