Tessella, an IT and consulting services company that provides digital archiving technology, is addressing the problem of long-term digital preservation. Its Safety Deposit Box (SDB) offering enables organizations to store and preserve digital information and, more importantly, to access this information even after several years…read more

Päivi Happonen, Development Director of The Finnish Archives, said; “The Finnish Archives’ task is to ensure that records belonging to the national cultural heritage are preserved. One of the many key reasons that we chose Tessella and Tieto was their proven track record of delivery.”

Sissi Kolbe, Tieto’s Director of Business Development in Information Management is delighted to continue working with Tessella; “Tieto always picks best of breed solutions and Tessella’s SDB is the perfect choice. This project follows on from our successful delivery of SDB to the National Archives of Estonia and we hope to further expand our operations with Tessella”.

Jon Tilbury, Tessella’s Director responsible for archiving technology, said; “We are very pleased to be working with The Finnish Archives and look forward to their input in the SDB User Group. They will become the ninth organisation to deploy SDB which is proving to be the long term preservation solution of choice in this demanding sector.”

Tilbury added: “We are again delighted to be using Tieto’s expertise in electronic content management and their understanding of how Nordic countries operate. We now have two successful collaborations underway in Estonia and Finland and hope to add many more”.

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Notes to the Editor

About Tieto

Tieto is an IT service company providing IT, R&D and consulting services. With approximately 17 000 experts, we are among the leading IT service companies in Northern Europe and the global leader in selected segments. We specialize in areas where we have the deepest understanding of our customers’ businesses and needs. Our superior customer centricity and expertise in digital services set us apart from our competitors.

Further information available at www.tieto.com

About Tessella

Tessella is a world leader in the provision of Digital Archiving technologies, working with major governments worldwide. For more information about digital archiving solutions, visit www.digital-preservation.com

For decades, Tessella has been successfully delivering IT and consulting services to world leaders in R&D, science and engineering. We enable our clients in life sciences, energy, the public sector, and consumer industries to achieve a wide range of objectives, including, forecasting floods, developing fusion power, enhancing military sensor capability, improving drug discovery and development efficiency, and reducing risk to health and the environment in the extraction and production of oil and gas. With offices in Europe and North America, global companies rely on Tessella for business critical assignments.

Further information available at www.tessella.com

Media Contact

Tessella | Christina Tealdi | PR/AR Executive

Phone: +44 (0) 1235 555511 | Mobile: + 44 (0) 779 9346453 |Christina.tealdi@tessella.com

Tessella’s Mark Evans, Digital Archiving Practice Manager, will giving a talk on Digital Archiving Initiatives: An international perspective,

To find out more about this event or to register online, visist www.archivists.ca

A complete archiving solution must retain knowledge and ensure it can be found and read when needed. A genuine archive combines tools for ingest, storage, management and access. It also includes the capability to preserve information such that it is accessible. Yet an archive is often the last part of a comprehensive data management vision to be delivered.

Tessella’s www.digital-preservation.com microsite helps answer the key questions about digital archiving:
• Why archive?
• What are the problems?
• The best solution?

Day 1 will focus on the need to preserve digital objects, address the technical challenges that institutions must face and introduce the Planets framework, tools and services as an integrated approach to digital preservation. The National Library of the Netherlands will present a case study to illustrate the work it is doing to implement Planets.

On Days 2 and 3 delegates will have the opportunity to see demonstrations and take part in three practical exercises illustrating how Planets can be used to develop and test a preservation plan using a sample collection. The Ministry of Culture will consider digital preservation activities in Italy.

To find out more about this event or to register online, visit http://www.planets-project.eu/events/rome-2010/

Attendance included SDB users from the UK, Dutch and Estonian National Archives, The Swiss Federal Archives, and the Wellcome Trust Libraries.

The next SDB User Group meeting is scheduled to take place in Switzerland in April 2010.

Tessella is proud to announce that the Swiss Federal Archives or Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv (BAR) has accepted Tessella’s Safety Deposit Box (SDB) for the long-term management of their digital information. The project was completed successfully, on time and to budget. The system is now operational and the BAR have joined the growing Tessella SDB user group.

Dr. Krystyna Ohnesorge, BAR’s Head of the Innovation and Preservation Unit (UPI) says, “Tessella’s SDB allows easy and efficient management of ingest, storage and preservation of our digital records. This means that we can be sure that generations to come will be able to learn from these records.”

BAR began addressing the problems of Digital Archiving in 2005 with the development of the ARELDA project: the aim of which is to allow all of the Swiss federal agencies to submit records in a uniform way. After looking at various solutions, BAR selected Tessella’s SDB in 2007. A requirement study and an integration plan were developed in autumn ’07 to allow the system to work with the requirements of ARELDA and their workflows. The system is fully OAIS compliant and contains Tessella’s world leading active preservation model.

To learn more about the work that we do please visit http://www.tessella.com/wp-content/uploads/solutions-technologies/solutions/archiving-digital-preservation

This cross disciplinary team, Brandy is a librarian and Kathy is a software consultant at Tessella, have produced an accessible example-filled book that shows how ontologies and other semantic techniques can be used to enhance the effectiveness of electronic search and knowledge management.  The book grew out of a collaboration to provide access to a multi-disciplinary, curated set of literature regarding the effects of the media on children’s health.  The result is a natural language search tool for a varied audience of educators, parents, clinicians and legislators.

The book illustrates how semantic technology can be used to enhance knowledge retrieval and management through natural language queries, dictionaries of concepts (ontologies), guided navigation, data mining, etc.  Readers will gain a sense of how ontologies are currently being used and how semantic techniques could be applied in the future.

Kathy of Tessella says; “The book has been written in easy understandable language so that technical concepts are explained clearly with concepts broken down to the basics.  Yet it provides a sound technical description of the semantic techniques available today.”

The book is available online on http://www.amazon.co.uk/Searching-Concept-Not-Just-Word/dp/1843343185

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Notes to editors:

• For press enquiries or to arrange an interview with Tessella please email Christina Tealdi, Marketing Communications and PR Executive, at christina.tealdi@tessella.com.
• Brandy King is the Information Specialist at the Centre of Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital Boston.  She graduated from Smith College with a BA and Simmons College with a M.L.I.S.  She is an active member of the Special Libraries Association, and was the recipient of the 2005 SLA Innovation in Technology Award for the creation of customized media effects ontology used for semantic searching.Kathy Reinold is a software consultant in Clinical Technologies for Tessella Inc.
• Kathy graduated from Emmanuel College with a B.A and Boston University with a M.S. Computer Science.  Kathy is also a Springboard Enterprises alumna, a member of Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology and a member of the Association of Computing Machinery.  Kathy has extensive experience in software development and metholdogies including work on ontologies and semantic search.
• Tessella has a decades-long track record of success delivering technology and consulting services for the business-critical assignments of R&D, science and engineering leaders. Adding business value to client organizations as diverse as Pfizer, Shell, Unilever, and Lockheed Martin by the application of scientific methodology and information technology is Tessella’s goal.  Our clients’ goals include: preserving the nation’s digital heritage, developing fusion technology, enhancing military sensor capability, increasing drug discovery and development efficiency, and reducing risk to health and the environment in the extraction and production of energy. Tessella’s 250 problem solvers are based at offices in North America, the UK, and our European base in the Netherlands.

Tessella contact details:

info@tessella.com

Tessella Inc
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Tel: (1) 617 454-1220, Fax: (1) 617 454-1001

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Dr Robert Sharpe, Tessella’s head of Digital Archiving Solutions, commented: “Tessella has been working on advanced digital archiving solutions for many years, alongside some of the world’s most farsighted archiving organizations. In partnership with the UK National Archives, Tessella developed the Safety Deposit Box (SDB) to help confront the problem of digital preservation. The core SDB software has been in use at the UK National Archives for four years, and has recently been significantly enhanced as part of their Seamless Flow programme. Other users of SDB include Arkib Negara (Malaysia), the British Library, and the Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv (Swiss Federal Archives).

Bill Cheng at VersaPAC said: “Delivering a complete solution requires the archiving technology to be built into the day-to-day system within an organization. For Arkib Negara we used the Trim Context system from Tower to provide the records management component and built bespoke workflows to transfer data from Trim into the new Archive, thereby delivering a complete and seamless solution. The system was successfully rolled out in two phases during 2007.”

Mr Geoff Moore at Tower Software added: “The integration of world-leading archive technology with Tower’s records management capability is a very exciting development and one we hope many other national archives and blue-chip organizations will benefit from.”

Pn Hajah Mahfuzah binti Yusof, Managing Director of the Electronic Records And Information Technology Management, Arkib Negara concluded: “This is a crucial and exciting time for archives around the world. We need to share and build on each other’s experience in order to solve the new preservation challenges.”

Tessella, VersaPAC and Tower Software are exhibiting at the International Congress of Archiving 2008 from the July 22nd until July 26th. Yahya Abdullah of VersaPAC will be presenting the Arkib Nagara solution on July 23rd.  Dr Robert Sharpe of Tessella and Mr Mark Evans of Tessella Inc will be speaking on ‘The Problems of Digital Preservation of Archives’ on July 24th.

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Notes to editors:

For press enquiries or to arrange an interview with Tessella please contact Christina Tealdi, Marketing Communications and PR Executive on +44 (0) 1235 555511 or christina.tealdi@tessella.com

• Tessella has over 20 years of proven expertise in the area of reliable and authentic long-term preservation of electronic records, both for government and scientific organizations. In recent years a number of mainly academic and government organizations have been at the cutting-edge of facing up to the digital preservation challenge, and Tessella has played a key role in a number of the most practical of these initiatives. For more information please visit: www.digital-preservation.com/resources/digital-archiving-challenges-webinar/

For press enquiries or to arrange an interview with VersaPAC please contact Encik Ahmad Nazarudin on +6012 2515 633 or ahmad@versapack.com.my

• VersaPAC Versapac is a leading software company in enterprise content management. It has many years experience in providing solutions for records, document, archiving and workflow management. It is a partner for Tessella UK and Tower Software Australia, which is now part of HP through a recent acquisition. For more information, please visit: www.versapac.com.my

For press enquiries or to arrange an interview with Tower please contact Michelle Phillips, Marketing Manager APJ on +61 2 624552100

• Tower Software is a global leader in the successful delivery and implementation of industrial strength Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, delivering proven productivity  enhancements and compliance policy management to our clients while helping them be prepared for e-discovery. Working closely with a range of clients across the globe to address their enterprise information management needs, TOWER Software has incorporated 22 years of real business experience into TRIM Context, our award-winning product. Extensive business rules have been assimilated into TRIM Context to create a configurable, “out-of-the-box” solution which enables organizations to achieve best-practice information management across the enterprise, while reducing implementation risk.