[Pasig-discuss] The Archivematica + DuraCloud Preservation Service Beta Test

[Carol Minton Morris]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

Oct. 13, 2014

Contact: Michele Kimpton (mkimpton at duraspace.org); Evelyn McLellan (
evelyn at artefactual.com)
Read it online: http://bit.ly/1CdhUj9

*The Archivematica + DuraCloud “Soup-to-Nuts” Preservation Service Beta
Test*

The Archivematica + DuraCloud hosted service has launched a beta test with
pilot partners that will be ongoing from October 2014 to January 2015. The
organizations participating in the pilot are:

Berea College (http://www.berea.edu/)
The Huntington Library (http://huntington.org/)
Illinois Wesleyan University (https://www.iwu.edu/)
Kansas State University (http://ksu.edu/)
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources: State Archive and State
Library (http://www.ncdcr.gov/)
Pepperdine University (http://www.pepperdine.edu/)
Phillips Academy (http://www.andover.edu/)
University of Texas at San Antonio (http://utsa.edu/)
University of Washington (http://www.washington.edu/)

Ensuring that robust Archivematica Archival Information Packages (AIPs)
have a secure long-term home is the idea behind the new Archivematica +
DuraCloud hosted service. The new integrated service is designed to provide
users with a robust preservation workflow plus long-­term archiving in a
single hosted solution.

The DuraCloud cloud­-based archiving and preservation service platform
manages and preserves digital objects. DuraCloud enables user management
and preservation of content without locking into a single cloud provider.
DuraCloud also features value­-added services such as regular bit-­level
health checks for all content stored in DuraCloud. The platform is
open-­source and free to download, but also available as a hosted solution
from DuraSpace.

Archivematica is an open­-source tool for ingesting digital objects and
preparing them for long­-term preservation. Archivematica accommodates a
variety of OAIS-­based digital curation workflows, and provides a flexible
framework for normalizing ingested digital objects to durable,
preservation-­friendly formats. The system performs a series of
preservation micro­services and generates Archival Information Packages
(AIPs) consisting of the ingested digital objects, any normalized
preservation masters generated during processing, and detailed PREMIS
metadata packaged into standard METS XML files.

The powerful combined Archivematica + DuraCloud service meets all 21
aspects of managing and preserving digital objects identified by the IMLS
funded white paper “From Theory to Action
<http://commons.lib.niu.edu/handle/10843/13610>", which analyzes and
compares digital preservation solutions for under-resourced institutions.
The service will be launched to the general public early 2015, based on the
completion of a successful pilot.

*More Information*

If your organization is interested in learning more about the new
Archivematica + DuraCloud service please contact Michele Kimpton (
mkimpton at duraspace.org), Evelyn McLellan (evelyn at artefactual.com), or
complete the inquiry form at http://duracloud.org/archivematica.
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