Protect the future of your digital assets with Tessella’s world-leading preservation services and technologies
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.
Learn more about the challenges of digital preservation and archiving.
Tessella’s Experience
Tessella has unique experience, both practical and academic, of solving the problems posed by digital preservation and archiving. This includes:
- delivering complete archiving & preservation systems to customers including members of the national archive, national library, academic library and regional archive community.
- conducting world leading research as part of very well respected projects.
- providing consultancy to government and commercial organisations facing the challenges of digital archiving and preservation.
Organizations take advantage of Tessella’s many years of experience and expertise, as well as proven technology which in an emerging discipline is critical to making projects successful.
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:
- Specialist consultancy. This includes exploring the business risks posed by a poor digital archiving policy, technical specification and solution selection.
- A complete Digital Archiving and Preservation solution. We offer the Safety Deposit Box (SDB), currently in use at 7 leading organizations around the world. Built on the OAIS standard, this includes the unique Active Preservation component which manages the content in the longer term. See a summary of SDB here Tessella Safety Deposit Box.
- Customisation and integration. All archiving solutions need to be built into operational processes and infrastructures. Tessella works to deliver a complete solution to enable organizations to deploy and operation successfully.
- Research. As members of many respected research projects, e.g. PLANETS, KEEP and DIOSCURI, we are able to advise on best practice, to integrate novel approaches and to investigate new approaches.
- Support. Once the solution is in place it needs both maintenance and further enhancements to cope with new file formats. Tessella recognises that archiving is long term commitment and we work with our users to ensure data is managed in the very long term.
For more see here: Digital Archiving: Offerings and experience
