introduction to archivematica
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Introduction to Archivematica
Sara Allain VII Congresso Nacional de Arquivologia
Fortaleza, BR – Oct 17, 2016
What is Archivematica? Web- and standards-based open-source application which allows your institution to preserve long-term access to trustworthy, authentic and reliable digital content.
-- Archivematica website, Oct 13 2016 https://www.archivematica.org/
History of Archivematica First developed by Artefactual in 2007 as a back-end for ICA-AtoM (Access to Memory) and called Qubit-OAIS. Qubit-OAIS was based on standards published by the International Council on Archives, who were key partners in the development of ICA-AtoM.
History of Archivematica Also in 2007, the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme Sub-Committee on Technology published a paper recommending the development and implementation of an open source digital archival and preservation system.
History of Archivematica The UNESCO report suggested that “what was needed was an affordable, sustainable approach that could leverage the expertise of larger institutions with more resources to innovate and share solutions with the digital preservation community at-large.”
-- The Archivematica Project: Meeting Digital Continuity’s Technical Challenges, pg. 2
http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/mow/VC_Van_Garderen_et_al_26_Workshop1.pdf
History of Archivematica “Over time ... the [Artefactual] development team recognized that the direct association with ICA-AtoM may be too exclusive, obscuring the larger goal to allow Archivematica to integrate with other systems.”
-- The Archivematica Project: Meeting Digital Continuity’s Technical Challenges, pg. 3
http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/mow/VC_Van_Garderen_et_al_26_Workshop1.pdf
History of Archivematica The City of Vancouver Archives (CVA) was one of the first institutions to allocate resources for Archivematica development. In 2009, the CVA began to work with Artefactual to create the city’s first Digital Archive, using the UNESCO report as a guiding document.
History of Archivematica Working with CVA staff, Artefactual developers developed a workflow that aligned with the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS), a best practices framework developed by the astronomical community for data preservation.
History of Archivematica Over the years, Archivematica has been substantially expanded in both interface and functionality, through both sponsored development and formal reviews, like the InterPARES 3 project gap analysis, as well as grant-funded projects.
Pre-dashboard
Dashboard!
Archivematica 1.5.1
OAIS model
OAIS model
Micro-services architecture
Micro-services architecture
Technical stack
External tools • AtoM • BagIt • Bulk_extractor • ClamAV • Django • ElasticSearch • ExifTool • FFmpeg • fido
• FITS • Gearman • Imagemagick • Inkscape • JHOVE • md5deep • MediaInfo • NFS-common • p7zip
• Python-lxml • Seigfried • Sleuthkit • Tesseract • Ubuntu Linux • UUID • Unar • Zip
What is Archivematica? Web- and standards-based open-source application which allows your institution to preserve long-term access to trustworthy, authentic and reliable digital content.
-- Archivematica website, Oct 13 2016 https://www.archivematica.org/
