[Pasig-discuss] NEWS RELEASE: Arkivum and Artefactual collaborate to deliver digital preservation and storage solution

[Evelyn McLellan]

*Chippenham, Wiltshire, UK and New Westminster, Canada – 16th September
2014*

Arkivum <http://www.arkivum.com/>, a leading provider of long-term assured
digital archiving solutions, and Artefactual <http://www.artefactual.com/>,
providers of open-source and open-standard digital preservation software,
today officially announce their strategic collaboration. The collaboration
will enable institutions and organisations that have Archivematica
<http://www.archivematica.org/> deployments to benefit from the 100%
guaranteed long-term digital archiving solutions provided by Arkivum.

The integration of Arkivum’s digital archive services with Archivematica is
being co-developed by Artefactual and Arkivum. The option to store content
processed by Archivematica in Arkivum platforms, both on-site and in the
cloud, will be integrated into an autumn 2014 public release of
Archivematica.  As with other enhancements to the Archivematica platform,
the integration will be made available as open-source code for further
development and enhancements under the AGPL3 license.

“We are excited to be working with Arkivum, a well-established provider of
secure, long-term storage tools and services,” said Evelyn McLellan,
President of Artefactual Systems. “We believe institutions will see this as
a comprehensive solution for developing their digital repositories.”

“As institutions face rising data volumes, the need to preserve valuable
data sets for the future increases, ” Jim Cook, CEO of Arkivum explained.
“Working with Artefactual to integrate our two technology solutions will
enable us to offer an end-to-end solution for digital preservation and
long-term archiving.”


Evelyn McLellan
President, Artefactual Systems Inc.
www.artefactual.com
604.527.2056
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