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ARCHIVEMATICA

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Archivematica is developed by Museum Of Modern Art it is a free and open-source digital preservation system that is designed to maintain long-term access to digital memory. It is packaged with the web based content management system AtoM. Archivematica can be customized, it gives several decision points that give the user. Users may also preconfigure most of these options for seamless ingest to archival storage and access. Archivematica offers many ingest workflows: metadata and submission documentation import, zipped and unzipped Bag ingest, digital forensic image processing, SIP arrangement, manual normalization, and dataset management.

Licensing

All Archivematica code is released under a GNU Affero General Public License (A-GPL 3.0) – giving you the freedom to study, modify, improve, and distribute it

License

System 

Requirements

Support for macOS is possibly in theory, but is not being tested.

Archivematica is unlikely to ever run directly in a Windows environment. Consider the use of a virtualization platform to run Linux VMs.

System Requirements

Usability

The majority of operations are accomplished through a Web-based graphical user interface.

Reports on the ease of installation and the robustness of the system are mixed but improving. 

Usability

Administration

On this page:

  • Processing configuration

    • Fields and options

  • General

  • Failures

  • Transfer source locations

  • AIP storage locations

  • Processing storage usage

  • DIP upload

    • AtoM DIP upload

    • ArchivesSpace DIP

  • upload Archivists’ Toolkit DIP upload PREMIS agent

  • REST API

  • Users Handle server config

  • Language

  • Version

Administrator

Content 

Management

Archivematica is packaged with the web-based content management system AtoM for access to your digital objects.

Content Management

Target Market

Target users are archivists, librarians, and anyone working to preserve digital objects.

Target Market

Flexible

User can customize format identification tools, printing the original order of the directories ingested, examining contents for private and personal information, extracting contents of packages and forensic images, transcribing content, and more.

Flexible

Compatible

In the Format Policy Registry (FPR), Archivematica implements its default format policies based on an analysis of the significant characteristics of file formats. The FPR also offers an editable, flexible framework for format identification, package extraction, transcription and normalization for preservation and access. Your institution can update tools, rules and commands in your local FPR from the Artefactual-managed FPR server. You can also add your own, local policies to your internal FPR. The FPR is integrated with PRONOM.

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Archivematica has a lot of functions even you can be customized by users. The most unique parts of Archivematica is it focused on long-term preserving. It is functioning as Noah’s ark for digital preservation.

However, it has a few negative sides. It takes time to get used to Archivematica and it can be confusing for elder people to navigate themselves and it needs to be downloaded and it has very limited sanctions for downloading this program. Nonetheless, despite the few shortfalls, there are a number of opportunities that this free and open source system can offer.  What is good for preservation is not always a boon to access or management.

Artefactual believes that Binder can help cultural institutions meet the challenges of long-term preservation by providing access to metadata (technical, administrative, descriptive, and preservation) that is critical in informing digital preservation policy and practice.
 

Source: Archivmatica: https://www.archivematica.org/en/

© 2018 by Juri Rhyu

© 2018 Access Spectrum Reviewers

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