Piql Book of References

Culture and memory institutions

MUSEUMS | MEMORIALS | CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS | RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS | GALLERIES | LEGACY CENTRES | ART INSTITUTIONS

Culture and memory institutions carry an important re sponsibility to ensure history is never lost and content lives on into the distant future. Many physical and analogue collections are at risk with decay occurring of time, making digitisation a key priority for many institutions to carry their content into the future and guard against disaster or damage. Howev er, digitising alone does not guarantee future access, the content must also be preserved for the future. Digitally born collections are increasing and due to the rapid evolution of technology, are even more at risk than traditional collections. Technological obsolescence is a constant concern, with a race against time to ensure data isn’t trapped on un readable media, with most data carriers designed only for short term storage. Many digital preservation technolo

gies available are designed to keep the data alive through a data migration strategy or through active online man agement. These solutions can be expensive, risky and time consuming. Achieving compliance with international standards, such as OAIS, is also incredibly important but can present more challenges, especially for digitally born content in licenced formats. An effective digital preservation strategy must manage digitally born content, multiple file format types, digitisa tion needs and future archival planning while overcoming the problem of technology obsolescence. Our technology is designed meet these needs, effec tively and affordably. We also offer the exclusive oppor tunity of storage in the Arctic World Archive, a growing repository of global memory.