Preserving access to digital information

Find out about digital preservation
	What’s the problem?
	Tessella’s experience
	The information lifecycle
	Tessella’s offerings

The advances of computer technology offer many new opportunities but also new challenges. One of the most important challenges is tackling the problem of digital archiving: ensuring that the digital information we create and store today will continue to be accessible for as long as we may need it.

Industry commentators have raised the prospect of a ‘digital dark age’ stretching from the late 20th to the early 21st century, as huge amounts of digital information are at risk of loss. It is now becoming well recognized that a failure to address such problems puts organizations not only at risk of losing valuable intangible assets but also in danger of failing to comply with legal or regulatory requirements.

Workshop: Nuclear Information Management over the Millenia In November 2006, Tessella hosted a workshop where leading industry experts discussed the challenges facing the nuclear industry, as it seeks to archive its information for the coming generations ...read more...

Tessella’s Experience
The problems of preserving access to digital information are being addressed in the emerging field of digital preservation. Tessella has been working with government and private sector organizations to develop practical solutions to the challenges posed.

The information lifecycle
By considering the path that information takes through an organization it is possible to develop systems that allow the smooth flow of data from one stage to the next.

What Tessella can offer
Tessella can offer a wide range of digital preservation services ranging from custom development and research to consultancy and system integration.

Digital archiving is becoming a priority for many organizations and Tessella is active in providing them with practical and innovative solutions for the entire information lifecycle.

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What’s the problem?	‘Mind the gap’ - DPC report into digital preservation needs in the UK Archiving Electronic Information - the key issues Evidence mounts of the cost of failing to preserve digital information
What’s the solution?	Digital Preservation - an Overview Digital Preservation - Practical Experiences Digital Archiving Offerings SDB Archive (Tessellations Edition 61, page 1)
Public sector archiving experience	The National Archives of Malaysia select SDB Workshop: Nuclear Information Management over the Millenia File Format Registry: new version released by the UK National Archives Tessella to develop a digital preservation emulator NARA’s Electronic Records Archives project UK National Archives' Digital Archive Project UK National Archives’ PRONOM project The Dutch government Digital Preservation Testbed project
Scientific archiving experience	Digital Archiving in the Pharmaceutical Industry Preserving data from nuclear fusion experiments Central Electronic Archive for a major pharmaceutical company

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