E-records@Hagley

Abby AdamsAssistant Curator of Digital Collections Hagley Museum and Library

Hagley Library Collections• Document the history of American enterprise

• Late 1700s-Present

• Intersection of industry, technology, and society

• Gunpowder, railroads, iron and steel industry, product packaging, fashion, interior design

• History of the du Pont family and DuPont

• Size of collections: o Over 34,000 linear feet of manuscriptso Over 2 million visual material itemso Over 280,000 printed volumes o Over 6 terrabytes of born digital records

E-records@Hagley then...• Passive collecting of born digital content

• Storage consisted of an 8TB server backed up offsite by our tech support company (KDI)

• No policies, procedures, guidelines for accepting or managing them

• No accession record or documentation on transfer

• No link between born digital and analog collections

• File integrity was not checked

• No write blocking

• No disk images

E-records@Hagley now!• Active collecting of born digital content

• Secure digital repository (Preservica)

• Password protected Wordpress site for policies, workflows, etc.

• Accessions recorded in Archivist's Toolkit (AT)

• Linking digital records to analog in AT

• Checksums before and after transfer

• Write blocking

• Disk images

Preservica

• Cloud-based

• Safety Deposit Box (SDB)

• Tessella, Inc.

• In 10 countries across 4 continents

• Web-based interface

• Amazon Web Services

• Starts around $20K

• Key featureso indexingo searchabilityo file format

identificationo file characterizationo creates checksumso migration tools

Why Preservica?• Affordable

• Secure

• Out-of-the-box

• Extensible

• Accessibility

• Low learning curve/User-friendly interface

• Researcher access

• Easily export data

Preservica - SIP Creator

Preservica - Home Screen

Managing ingest workflows

Preservica - Search

File Preview

File Metadata

File Migrations

Managing Schemas for Adding Metadata

Security - Managing User Roles

Reports

ContactsHagley - Digital Collections Dept.Abby Adams - aadams@hagley.orgKevin Martin - kmartin@hagley.org

Tessella representatives:Mike.Thuman@tessella.comMark.Evans@tessella.comhttp://www.digital-preservation.com/solution/preservica/