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Abby Adams discusses Hagley’s implementation of Preservica and the ongoing adventure of creating policies and workflows for digital accessions and collections.TRANSCRIPT
E-records@Hagley
Abby AdamsAssistant Curator of Digital Collections Hagley Museum and Library
Hagley Library Collections• Document the history of American enterprise
• Late 1700s-Present
• Intersection of industry, technology, and society
• Gunpowder, railroads, iron and steel industry, product packaging, fashion, interior design
• History of the du Pont family and DuPont
• Size of collections: o Over 34,000 linear feet of manuscriptso Over 2 million visual material itemso Over 280,000 printed volumes o Over 6 terrabytes of born digital records
E-records@Hagley then...• Passive collecting of born digital content
• Storage consisted of an 8TB server backed up offsite by our tech support company (KDI)
• No policies, procedures, guidelines for accepting or managing them
• No accession record or documentation on transfer
• No link between born digital and analog collections
• File integrity was not checked
• No write blocking
• No disk images
E-records@Hagley now!• Active collecting of born digital content
• Secure digital repository (Preservica)
• Password protected Wordpress site for policies, workflows, etc.
• Accessions recorded in Archivist's Toolkit (AT)
• Linking digital records to analog in AT
• Checksums before and after transfer
• Write blocking
• Disk images
Preservica
• Cloud-based
• Safety Deposit Box (SDB)
• Tessella, Inc.
• In 10 countries across 4 continents
• Web-based interface
• Amazon Web Services
• Starts around $20K
• Key featureso indexingo searchabilityo file format
identificationo file characterizationo creates checksumso migration tools
Why Preservica?• Affordable
• Secure
• Out-of-the-box
• Extensible
• Accessibility
• Low learning curve/User-friendly interface
• Researcher access
• Easily export data
Preservica - SIP Creator
Preservica - Home Screen
Managing ingest workflows
Preservica - Search
File Preview
File Metadata
File Migrations
Managing Schemas for Adding Metadata
Security - Managing User Roles
Reports
ContactsHagley - Digital Collections Dept.Abby Adams - [email protected] Martin - [email protected]
Tessella representatives:[email protected]@tessella.comhttp://www.digital-preservation.com/solution/preservica/