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MWMAmyPoeNew Participant
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Top level collection display

Hello, I am trying to determine how to change which asset displays in the view on the home page under the header Top Level Collections. I tried sorting according to different options but the same asset always displays. I’d like to select another in its place. Any suggestions? Thank you very much.

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Jon Tilbury
Preservica Employee
Jon TilburyPreservica Employee
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University College Dublin survey

Would anyone like participate in a survey to help Students at University College Dublin investigate how digital curators discover and utilize digital preservation tools? They have a short survey and have asked if we could invite the digital preservation community to participate. You can find out more about their work and take the survey here: http://surveymonkey.com/r/BFQ8W7Q Research Ethics Reference Number (HS-E-21-177-Cushing) Thank you in advance for your contributions.

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Jon Tilbury
Preservica Employee
gracetri
gracetriNew Participant
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Assigning thumbnails to multiple assets

Is it possible to assign a thumbnail to multiple assets at once? When I select more than one asset, the Assign Thumbnail option turns gray. I’m working on a collection with many .msg files and I’m wondering whether there’s a way to assign the same external thumbnail image to all of them without having to edit them one by one. If not, this might be a useful feature in a future update.

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Samantha BarnthouseNew Participant
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Free Account - Only .21 Gigs When Empty

Hi! I am an MLIS student working on a group project for our finals and we are required to use Preservica for a preservation project. The Free account shows that we should have 5 gigs of storage, but even when my account is empty of assets, it shows I only have .21 gigs available. I recently uploaded 13 jpeg files and it says I have .01 gigs. Is this just a glitch or is there something wrong with my account?

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Steve Crawford
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DavidCommunity Manager
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We have a Quiz winner!!

Thank you to everyone who entered the Community Hub Quiz. I am delighted to announce that Heather Perez of Stockton University is our winner and recipient of the prize - $100 to be donated to a charity of her choice! Heather told us, “My chosen charity is Pinelands Preservation Alliance. Here in southern New Jersey, my family and I live and work in the 1.1-million-acre Pineland National Reserve, the largest forested area between Maine and Florida. The Pinelands Preservation Alliance works to protect the ecosystem, educate the public, and ensure that the land is preserved for the health of the planet and global citizens.” The Starter team are delighted to collaborate with Heather and support such an important cause, helping to protect the pinelands for future generations.

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kate_sKnown Participant
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Handling sensitive content in digital repositories

Hi all: I’m currently working as a temp at a state university working on content for an upcoming digital repository, which will hold faculty and staff scholarship as well as some materials important to the history of the university. I am writing because I’m doing some research on how academic digital repositories handle sensitive content. Is that something anyone here has experience with? Or, do you have a guide you might suggest? I’m sure it will come up from time to time, but at the moment, I’m dealing with archiving all of the university’s yearbooks back to the 1920s. Unfortunately, the yearbook editors at times included some distasteful content that would be considered sexist and racist now. I’m trying to put together a process by which we can publish and maintain digital copies of items that are important to the university, but also be sensitive to its content and add some sort of warning to content that might upset a reader or viewer. I also want to put together some sort of repo

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lpeaurtKnown Participant
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Ingesting audio outputs from British Library Save our Sounds project

Hi all, We have just received back a large volume of analogue audio recordings which we have been lucky enough to get digitised as part of the British Library Save our Sounds project. We are now thinking about the best way to ingest the outputs into Preservica (as well as get metadata into our Calm collection management system and link the digital assets to the catalogue record). I wondered if any other Preservica customers have been part of this BL project and would like to have a chat/ discussion about how best to structure and ingest the outputs into Preservica? As an example: Audio files We have a cassette tape which has been returned to us with two separate wav files, one for each side of the cassette. This is straightforward enough. Metadata files However, for the above cassette, we have been provided with a three separate rows of spreadsheet metadata for the contents of this cassette - describing three separate audio items included on the single cassette tape - one of the rows o

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Gareth Bennett
Preservica Employee
Gareth BennettPreservica Employee
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Active Digital Preservation for social media

Are you currently preserving or looking to preserve social media records? We would love to hear the what, why and how. Take our quick poll and share your comments below. To learn more about how you can ensure tweets can be read and trusted forever register here to join our next Tech Futures user meeting on Dec 02 2021.

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Gareth Bennett
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kate_sKnown Participant
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Best guide or video for manual entry in Preservica?

Hi all: I’m out in the weeds, a bit lost while wading through all of the videos and PDFs about Preservica available in a variety of places. I’m hoping someone can point me to a PDF or video that would be most useful to me. Essentially, I’m looking for a step-by-step guide that shows me how to manually add a document to Preservica—without having an XML upload to pair with it. The short story is: For the past five months, I’ve been a temp handling a lot of the prep and ingest for content (mostly PDFs and images) for an academic digital repository. However, the process I’ve been using relies upon Python (and maybe other language?) scripts that both (a) generate a giant XML document of all the content I’ve entered into an Excel spreadsheet and (b) split that content into individual XML files that I then convert into .metadata files and upload into Preservica, with their companion PDFs or JPGs. These scripts allowed us to ingest large quantities of content with all its metadata already fill

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DavidCommunity Manager
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IT'S QUIZ TIME!Quiz

Hey Everyone – we invite you to take part in our short (and fun) quiz all about content on the Community Hub for your chance to win $100 donated to a charity of your choice! Not only will you learn more about some of the fantastic resources and features of the Community Hub you could also be supporting your favourite charity with a surprise donation in your name – what have you got to lose?! You can take part in the quiz here Please note entries will close on Oct 31st 2021. All correct answers will be entered into a draw and the winner will be announced in early November. Have fun quizzers! Hub Team

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Starter: Thumbnails for foldersProduct idea

Hi Starter community, Some of you have been asking to display thumbnails for collections/folders, so they are displayed visibly on Explorer, similar to what you have on Portal. This new feature would enable you to view and manage thumbnails for folders. Please take a look at the mock-up and let me know what you think. If you would find this useful, you can also “like” it. All the best, Michaela Starter Team

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Survey about a new feature for donor submissionssurvey

Hi Preservica community, The product team needs your help! We are currently designing a new feature making it easy for you to receive, assess and add digital records to your archive. We would like to find out from you how you are dealing with donations of records at the moment, so we can create a capability that truly meets your needs. There will be workshops on this topic as well, so make sure to sign up. How can you help? Please complete this survey. It will only take 5 minutes. If you’d like to join our design workshops for this new feature, please add your email on the form, so we can invite you. Thanks! The Preservica product team

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Anonymous
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CSV metadata files used with CONTENTdm

Hi everyone, I was wondering whether anyone has any CSV metadata files they use with CONTENTdm or for possibly migrating content from CONTENTdm to Preservica? We could use some sample files we can test our new bulk ingest feature with. Anything you can share is much appreciated. Michaela Michaela.Heigl@preservica.com

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David
DavidCommunity Manager
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Starter User Community Workshop

The Starter User Community Workshop is a monthly event., providing an opportunity to learn about exciting new features coming to Starter, hear inspiring project stories from Starter users and learn about digital preservation special topics. We welcome your comments, feedback and questions at any time.

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baertliKnown Participant
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Sharepoint connector

Good evening and congrats with this good looking “community hub”. So I thought … let’s test this with a real question :-) We have started to orient us a bit in the vast topic of archiving from collaborative workspaces. It is complex for many reasons. My eye fell on the Perservica’s page related to “automated sharepoint archiving” and I wondered what the current state of play is. The page reveals some high level features but we are interested in more details of this process (both technical and functional wise). Is more information available ? I checked the latest user documentation and ctrl-f’ed it with “sharepoint” but could not find something (but I might have missed it of course); I also looked into the user portal forum and there are some posts. This one from 2020 is in particular interesting. Thanks for any feedback ! Lieven

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Anonymous
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What happens when I uplaod an unsupported file type?

I would like to understand the process within Preservica when i try to upload a file format that is no longer supported. Thanks.

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Steve Crawford
Steve CrawfordCommunity Manager
published in Starter Editions
Any questions about the new Community Hub? - Just ask!Q&A

Hi everybody, Great to see you all and a big welcome to all our friends out there in the Preservica community, please come in, look around and tell us what you think. The Hub team will be around to answer any of your questions so just post a question and we will get back to you. All the best, The Community Hub Team

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hhperez
hhperezNew Participant
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JPG vs. TIF

We are tossing around the idea of not uploading TIFF files (to save space in our Preservica instance) and depending on the JPG as our archival copy. If Preservica is doing the digital preservation work on the JPG, is there a need for TIFF still? I’d be curious to hear what you think.

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Anonymous
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Are my public files findable by search engines?

Hi! I wanted to find out whether content made public via Access Portal is discoverable by search engines. I would like to use the Portal for internal puposes only. Thank you.

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Anonymous
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favourites in UA

Does anyone know why my favorite selections not being saved in Universal Access? Thanks for any help.

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Anonymous
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Audio and Video files

Hi! Could you please tell me if I could stream audio and video files in Preservica? Thank you!

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