Penwern Curate TM¶
Penwern Curate TM is a comprehensive software platform that addresses the fundamental issues with existing Digital Archiving solutions, allowing organisations of any size to build, preserve and manage best-practice Digital Archives with ground-breaking speed and simplicity.
Why is eArchiving important for any organization?¶
Valuable digital content can be become inaccessible, unusable, or untrustworthy due to a number of factors, such as:
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Files have been damaged or made inaccessible by viruses or malware.
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Files are corrupted.
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File types have become obsolete or software to read them is not available.
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The authenticity of the data is in question as you cannot prove that a file hasn't changed.
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You cannot find specific files due to a lack of understandable organisation or description.
Curate TM helps to fix these problems by:
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Removing threats due to viruses and malware through a system or virus checks and quarantine.
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Checksumming all files and regularly checking the integrity of files in its store.
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Characterising file types by MIME type and Pronom ID so that you can monitor your holdings and take decisions on strategies to manage file type and software obsolescence.
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Automatically extracting technical metadata.
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Allowing you to organize your file-store any way you wish, but also to add descriptive metadata to files and folders so that you can search on multiple attributes.
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Allowing you to retain all meta-information, and uniquely associate it with each object.
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Allowing you to perform format migration on your objects to normalise their types to archival standards.
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Preparing your content into standards-conformant information packages.
Is Curate TM Useful for Archivists and Digital Curators?¶
Curate TM is a platform that can be used to provide a number of critical functions within an electronic archiving system discretely or can form a complete and effective system itself. Individually, Curate TM can perform the following roles:
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Ingest, Upload and Accession
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Smart Deposit System
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Metadata Extraction
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Transcriber
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Fixity Agent
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Appraisal System
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Selection and Arrangement Workspace
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Reporting System
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Unified Description Tool
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Digital Preservation System
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OAIS Information Packaging
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Document Editing
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Advanced Access System
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Public Access Portal
In combination, these services mean that Curate comprises a comprehensive and highly capable electronic archiving system all on its own.
Is Curate TM Useful for Business?¶
Curate TM is a file sharing platform that integrates the features required for the preservation of data that go beyond basic data protection (back-up, integrity checking, disaster recovery).
The standards-based principles of digital preservation and eArchiving that Curate is built upon are rapidly becoming critical functions for all businesses to practice. Curate removes many of the significant barriers to entry that prevent businesses from effectively implementing digital preservation and eArchiving.
It is cost effective, allowing you to create an archive for inactive data that doesn't take up valuable storage on your primary storage systems and allows you to consolidate data into a single platform. Curate TM works in a way your users understand, with a best-in-class user experience. You don't have to train all your users on new, complex digital preservation applications.
Support¶
If you need help, click the user menu icon at the top left of the window, and select Support. This will take you to a contact form which goes directly to the Penwern support team.
Roadmap and Suggestions¶
Curate is an incredibly dynamic and flexible platform on which it is easy for us to add exciting functionality over time. We have a lot of ideas already, and we will publish a public roadmap in the future, but we would also really like to know your needs for new functions that we can prioritise.
Please drop us a line if you have any suggestions for the future of the platform, and also indicate if we can contact you in case we have questions.
Check out our website for exciting updates on the latest features coming to Curate.