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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The British Library and the National Archives of Malaysia have both selected Tessella’s Safety Deposit Box technology as key components of their digital archiving solutions. The technology has been designed to help memory institutions (including libraries and archives), who are already skilled at preserving paper material, to face the problems posed by preserving material stored [...]
