The thriving community of city and county archive offices and archives that use Preservica now includes East Riding of Yorkshire, Edinburgh City Council, City of Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire Archives, West Yorkshire Archives Service, Cambridgeshire Archives and Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives.
In recent months alone, recent additions include Cornish Archives and Surveys Service, Hampshire County Council, Kingston Heritage Service, St Helens Archives Service, Wolverhampton City Archives, Worcestershire Archeology and Archives Service, East Sussex and Brighton & Hove Records Office, Shropshire Council/ Shropshire Archives and Surrey Historical Center.
Preservica is also used to protect and preserve digital government records in a growing number of UK central government departments and agencies, such as the Met Office, Transport for London (TfL) and the UK National Archives.
Local records and archives offices, operating under the UK’s Public Records Act 1958, play an important role in developing open government by maintaining and increasing access to current, past and future digital archives.
As the world continues to move forward with digital technology, there is a real risk that valuable archives will be lost or damaged over time,” said Sam Bartle, archivist at East Riding Archives. “For archives, you have to be able to preserve them far beyond human life. Preservica goes a long way to ensuring such continuity with our digital archive for generations to come.”
With paper records dating back 800 years, the Eastern Riding Archives acquired Preservica through UK Government 12 Digital Marketplace G-Cloud framework agreement and has stored 160,000 important historical objects digitally. The database will change the ability of archival services to preserve digital archives to international standards, offering users access to a wide range of digital materials born online for the first time. It New Public Digital Archive of the East Riding is available for your access, where you can browse a wide range of available material, from recent and past events to information and images featuring East Riding’s community, landmarks and businesses over the years.
With many archives in digital or digital format, and with tight budgets and IT resources, authorities have applied Preservica’s cloud-hosted digital preservation to future-proof and archive critical digital archives to more efficiently meet FOI demands and provide public access wider .
Preservica’s active digital preservation technology ensures that digital records remain accessible and readable for decades, regardless of the file format in which they were created. The software also includes a secure public access portal to simplify the challenges of providing greater transparency and better digital services.
“Open government has created new demands on how to capture, protect and make digital information accessible for the long term, especially as public sector agencies around the world turn to digital work,” said Mike Quinn, Managing Director of Preservica. “The need to digitally store information in a sustainable way increases every year and it is exciting to see this growth in both local and national government in the UK. We are delighted to be working with all of these institutions to help protect and secure future public records and heritage. culture for future generations.
As part of its growing momentum internationally, Preservica recently announced expanding its presence in the Netherlands for the protection of government archives.
Learn more about Preservica’s cloud-hosted solutions for public administration or www.preservica.com to explore how Preservica is used to protect valuable digital content in businesses and academic institutions.
About Preservice
Preservica is changing the way organizations around the world protect and prepare critical digital information for the long term. Available in the cloud (SaaS) or on-premises, its award-winning Active Digital Preservation™ archiving software has been designed from the ground up to address the unique challenges of ensuring digital information remains accessible and reliable for decades to come.
It’s a proven solution trusted by thousands of businesses, archives, libraries, museums and government organizations around the world, including the UK National Archives, Texas State Library and Archives, MoMA, Yale and HSBC.
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