By Sue Clarke, Ovum 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
Oxford, UK | 10 June 2010. Tessella, the information technology and consulting services company and world leaders in digital preservation technology is pleased to announce that the Finnish National Archives has selected Tieto and Tessella’s Safety Deposit Box (SDB) to deliver their national digital archive. Päivi Happonen, Development Director of The Finnish Archives, said; “The [...]
Library and Archives Canada, with the support of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, is collaborating with the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) to present a pre-conference, full-day session on digital preservation. Tessella’s Mark Evans, Digital Archiving Practice Manager, will giving a talk on Digital Archiving Initiatives: An international perspective, To find out more about [...]
Advances in computer technology offer many new opportunities but also new challenges. One of the most important challenges is tackling the problem of digital obsolescence: ensuring that the digital information we create and store today will continue to be accessible for as long as we may need it. A complete archiving solution must retain knowledge [...]
The Austrian Federal Chancellery has selected Siemens IT Solutions and Services (SISS) and Tessella’s Safety Deposit Box (SDB) to develop the Austrian State e-government Archives…read more
The final in the series of three-day training events, ‘Digital Preservation – The Planets Way’, will take place in Rome on 19 – 21 April 2010 with the support of the Pontificia Università Gregoriana. Day 1 will focus on the need to preserve digital objects, address the technical challenges that institutions must face and introduce [...]
Tessella SDB User Group met on 8-9th December 2009, at the Institute of Civil Engineers in London to network and exchange ideas and views on digital preservation. It was also an opportunity for them to gain a better understanding about the road map of SDB. Attendance included SDB users from the UK, Dutch and Estonian [...]
Swiss Federal Archives chooses Tessella’s Safety Deposit Box (SDB) for the long-term management of their digital information 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
