[Pasig-discuss] NOW AVAILABLE: ArchivesDirect–Affordable, Standards-based Digital Preservation+Secure Storage

[Carol Minton Morris]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

February 19, 2015

Contact: Evelyn McLellan <evelyn at artefactual.com>, Carissa Smith <
csmith at duraspace.org>
Read it online: http://bit.ly/1EppqKb
Watch a Video: http://youtu.be/u7Ryyo2UWGA

*NOW AVAILABLE: ArchivesDirect—Affordable, Standards-based Digital
Preservation Plus Secure Storage*
*Finally, a complete preservation and archiving solution for universities,
archives and cultural heritage organizations*

*Winchester, MA *Today Artefactual Systems and the DuraSpace organization
are very pleased to announce the launch of ArchivesDirect, your complete,
hosted, “soup-to-nuts” solution for preserving valuable institutional
collections and all types of digital resources. Ensuring that your digital
holdings remain both safe and accessible for future generations at prices
that you can afford makes ArchivesDirect the best choice for one-stop
durable, safe and cost effective long-term preservation and storage.

The powerful, combined Archivematica plus DuraCloud ArchivesDirect 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>”. The aim of the report
developed by the POWRR (Preserving Digital Objects With Restricted
Resources) Project is to provide an analysis of digital preservation
solutions for under-resourced institutions. ArchivesDirect meets these
challenges by providing tools and services for ingest, preservation,
storage and maintenance over time.

ArchivesDirect is priced competitively at $11,900 for the ArchivesDirect
standard plan, and the cost for additional TBs is one-third the price of
other services. This cost advantage makes it possible for even small to
mid-sized institutions to participate in active digital preservation of
their collections without having to spend time and money developing tools
and infrastructure in-house.

*• WATCH* a 3-min. Quickbyte Video about ArchivesDirect:
http://youtu.be/u7Ryyo2UWGA
*• SIGN UP* for an April 1, 11:00AM ET ArchivesDirect info session:
http://archivesdirect.org/register
*• PRICING:* http://archivesdirect.org/pricing
*• GET *a quote*:* http://archivesdirect.org/inquiry

Users of the service will have access to a robust suite of digital
preservation functions via the online dashboard. Archivematica is well
known for its ability to produce highly standardized and interoperable
Archival Information Packages; these packages will automatically be placed
into DuraCloud for long-term secure archival storage, where they will be
replicated across Amazon S3 and Glacier storage locations and undergo
regular integrity checking. ArchivesDirect is unique among preservation and
archiving solutions because it is built with open-source software which is
well-documented and freely available. All content is stored using open
standards, and users can download their data at any point. This means that
users of the new service do not have to worry about data lock-in and the
service can be run locally at any time. “This offering is really about
collaboration between two organizations dedicated to open technologies and
standards,” said Artefactual Systems President Evelyn McLellan. "The
digital preservation expertise of Artefactual Systems is a perfect match
for the cloud services and storage experience of DuraSpace."

Artefactual Systems and DuraSpace are extremely grateful to a dedicated
group of pilot testers who have provided valuable feedback on
functionality, usability and scalability of the service over the last four
months. Because of their rigorous testing efforts ArchivesDirect has been
fine-tuned to handle a wide range of formats and workflows. Thanks go out
to the following:

• 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)

If your organization is interested in learning more about this offering
please go to http://archivesdirect.org today!

*About DuraSpace*

DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org), an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit
organization providing leadership and innovation for open technologies that
promote durable, persistent access to digital data. We collaborate with
academic, scientific, cultural, and technology communities by supporting
projects (DSpace <http://dspace.org/>, Fedora <http://fedorarepository.org/>
, VIVO <http://vivoweb.org/>) and creating services (DuraCloud
<http://duracloud.org/>, DSpaceDirect <http://dspacedirect.org/>,
ArchivesDirect <http://archivesdirect.org/>) to help ensure that current
and future generations have access to our collective digital heritage. Our
values are expressed in our organizational byline, "Committed to our
digital future."

*About Artefactual Systems*

Artefactual's (http://artefactual.com) mission is to provide the heritage
community with vital expertise and technology in the domains of digital
preservation and online access. We develop open-source software (
Archivematica <https://ww.archivematica.org/en/> and AtoM
<http://www.accesstomemory.org/>) and promote open standards as the best
means of enabling archives, libraries and museums to preserve and provide
access to society's cultural assets. We are archivists, librarians,
software developers and systems administrators, all working together to
advance the capacity of heritage institutions to meet their mandates in a
rapidly changing world.
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