<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">FYI.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font face="monospace, monospace">Hilton Gibson</font></b></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Ubuntu Linux Systems Administrator</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Stellenbosch University Library<br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><a href="http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/docs/cv/cv.html" target="_blank">http://staff.lib.sun.ac.za/~hgibson/docs/cv/cv.html</a><br></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Becky McGuinness</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:becky@openpreservation.org">becky@openpreservation.org</a>></span><br>Date: 6 July 2015 at 15:23<br>Subject: [WEB4LIB] Artefactual Systems becomes the newest member of the Open Preservation Foundation<br>To: <a href="mailto:WEB4LIB@listserv.nd.edu">WEB4LIB@listserv.nd.edu</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><b>We are delighted to welcome Artefactual Systems Inc. as the newest affiliate member of the Open Preservation Foundation (OPF); the first since we launched our new membership model in June 2015.</b></span><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Artefactual Systems is the lead developer of three open-source software tools, Archivematica (<a href="https://www.archivematica.org/" target="_blank">https://www.archivematica.org/</a>) for digital preservation, AtoM (<a href="https://www.accesstomemory.org/" target="_blank">https://www.accesstomemory.org/</a>) for archival description and online access, and Binder (<a href="http://binder.readthedocs.org/en/latest/" target="_blank">http://binder.readthedocs.org/en/latest/</a>) for digital repository management.</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Artefactual’s affiliate contribution will focus on the development, maintenance and public release management of the <a href="http://openpreservation.org/technology/products/fido/" target="_blank">Format Identification for Digital Objects</a> (FIDO) software tool. FIDO is included in Archivematica, but can also be used as a stand-alone command line tool or incorporated into other digital preservation systems.</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">“By becoming an affiliate member of the Open Preservation Foundation, Artefactual hopes to contribute to and benefit from the well-being of the open-source ecosystem of tools and services that we believe is essential to supporting digital preservation in the heritage community” explains Evelyn McLellan, President of Artefactual Systems Inc.</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">“We are delighted to welcome Artefactual Systems to our membership” comments Ed Fay, Executive Director of OPF. “They bring a wealth of experience in open source development and will be carrying out work on FIDO, a file format identification tool, which benefits the whole digital preservation community”.</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Artefactual Systems joins OPF members from archives, libraries, research institutions, universities, and service providers collaborating on shared solutions for effective and efficient digital preservation.</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">For more information about Artefactual Systems visit: <a href="https://www.artefactual.com/" target="_blank">https://www.artefactual.com/</a></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">To find out more about the benefits of becoming an OPF member and how to join visit: <a href="http://openpreservation.org/about/join/" target="_blank">http://openpreservation.org/about/join/</a>.</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>About</b></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Artefactual Systems</b></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Artefactual Systems is a Canadian-based company which provides consulting, software development, technical support and hosting services to heritage institutions around the world.</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b>Open Preservation Foundation</b></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">The OPF is an international non-profit membership organisation sustaining technology and knowledge for the long-term management of digital cultural heritage, providing its members with reliable solutions to the challenges of digital preservation.</font></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#666666">Becky McGuinness | </font><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">Community Manager</span><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">@openpreserve | </span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Skype: becky.mcguinness1</span></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.7272720336914px;color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#666666"><b>Open Preservation Foundation</b></font></span></div><div><font color="#1155cc" face="verdana, sans-serif"><u><a href="http://openpreservation.org/" target="_blank">http://openpreservation.org/</a></u></font><font color="#666666" style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></font></div></div></div></div></div>
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