AIIM’s recent webinar on the Challenges and Benefits of Digital Preservation attracted a large and broad audience, confirming that digital preservation is now a mainstream issue. Attendees included business leaders from a range of industry sectors, including finance and pharmaceuticals, as well as traditional archiving specialists from national and state archives and libraries.
During the webinar, [...]
The Tessella and AIIM free webinar Digital Preservation: challenges and benefits, held on October 15th 2008, was a huge success with over 300 attendees world-wide.
The speakers, Tessella’s Mark Evans and Prof Greg Hunter of Long Island University (and Senior Consultant to History Associates, Inc.) discussed the need to take steps now to address digital preservation. Lessons learned during work [...]
Who has not been frustrated when using their favorite search engine only to discover that many of the results are simply not relevant? This is the challenge that Brandy King and Kathy Reinold explore in the book “Finding the Concept, Not just the Word”.
This cross disciplinary team, Brandy is a librarian and Kathy is a [...]
Tessella were proud sponsors of this years iPRES 2008 event, the fifth in the series of annual international conferences, which was held at The British Library Conference Centre, in St Pancras, London.
Tessella gave a live case study demonstration on Automated Digital Preservation which generated a lot of interest.
iPRES brought together researchers and practitioners from around the world [...]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) recently announced read more..
The advances of computer technology offer many new opportunities but also new challenges. Records stored in popular file formats today may be unreadable in the near future because of constant changes in hardware, software and media technology. One of the most important challenges is tackling the problem of digital preservation, ensuring that the digital information [...]
Tessella is delighted to announce a 1.3 million CHF contract award to deliver a Digital Archive solution enabling the long-term preservation and management of the digital records of the Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv (Swiss Federal Archive). The solution will be based on the tried and tested Safety Deposit Box (SDB), developed by Tessella in partnership with The [...]
The SDB User Group held their first meeting in May 2008 in London. The meeting allowed users to share their experiences of using Tessella’s SDB Digital Archiving system and to identify areas of similarity and difference. The variations of the requirements and configurations between national libraries and archives proved especially illuminating.
The members have identified a [...]
Tessella has been selected as one of three organizations to provide application development services to the British Library, under a new framework agreement. The agreement allows the Library to quickly and cost-effectively call down additional application development, and related IT services, to undertake tasks to help with peaks of demand.
Kevin Gell, Managing Director of Tessella, [...]
The UK National Archives has won the Digital Preservation Award 2007 for its work on active preservation through the development of the PRONOM Technical Registry and the Digital Record Object Identification (DROID) file format identification. Tessella is delighted to have supported this highly innovative work.
The Digital Preservation Award recognizes leadership and practical advancement [...]
