V5.6 of Preservica, Digital Preservation and Access Software

Preservica Ltd, in digital preservation, announced the latest release (v5.6) of its digital preservation and access software.

The features build on Preservica‘s active post-ingest file format migration and storage management to give libraries, museums, archives and businesses new levels of control and flexibility over how they manage, arrange, migrate, share and store their valuable digital content overtime – as needs, demands and technologies change.

Preservica’s collection arrangement and explorer view has been enhanced with ‘drag-and-drop’  to create and re-create alternative hierarchies, collections or archival structures. In addition, v5.6 introduces easy to build virtual collections to enable the rapid creation of temporary exhibitions or new ways of discovering and searching the collection or archive.

v5.6 also adds recoverable delete giving greater control over the removal of content overtime and protecting the collection or archive from accidental or malicious deletions.

It also uses Preservica’s catalog synchronization framework to add support for ArchivesSpace. Developed in collaboration with Yale University Library, the synchronization simplifies the ingest and preservation of digital content and enables institutions to maintain a single catalog view across both physical and digital assets by automatically synchronizing catalog hierarchy and metadata between ArchivesSpace and Preservica, maintaining synchronization even after ingest.

Preservica’s Universal Access has also been enhanced with faceted search, a capability developed in collaboration with The Trustees of Reservations which will be followed by further advanced search capabilities in future releases.

Finally, v5.6 extends Preservica’s core digital preservation tool set – which already supports over a 1,000 different file formats and 300 migration pathways – adding Handbrake for video file migration to web-friendly HTML-5 format, as well as preservation registry search functions.

Jon Tilbury, CEO, Preservica adds: “The majority of the new features in v5.6 are down to the valued input of the growing Preservica user community who work closely with us and each other to simplify the challenge of ensuring their valuable digital content remains findable and accessible into the future.”

Euan Cochrane, digital preservation manager, Yale University Library adds: “Collaborating with Preservica to develop and deliver the ArchivesSpace synchronization and the new Virtual Collection capability in such a short space of time is the reason why we chose a flexible digital preservation platform that can adapt and scale as our archiving needs grow and change overtime. It is also very satisfying to know that these new features are now available to other Preservica users as part of a well-supported product roadmap.”

All Preservica editions (cloud and on premise) will include the functionality, and will be available to existing Preservica customers through their regular maintenance and update program.

New features included in Preservica v5.6 (all editions)

• New Core Digital Preservation Tools: Migrate video files to web-friendly HTML-5 format
• ‘Drag and Drop’ Collection Arrangement: Arrange and re-arrange records, hierarchies and collection structures
• Virtual Collections: Build temporary exhibitions and provide alternative ways of searching, discovering and accessing digital content
• Recoverable Delete: Remove unwanted content overtime and protect the archive from malicious or accidental deletions
• ArchivesSpace Catalog Synchronization: Automatically synchronize metadata and hierarchy between ArchivesSpace and Preservica, during and at any time after ingest
• Public Access Faceted Search: Simplify collection and archive discovery and search
  

Preservica’s customers include the UK National Archives, the Met Office, TX State Archives, Wellcome Library, Associated Press and HSBC.