<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>As part of an investigation into digital preservation platforms, I invite you to join a session with LibNova on the 30th. LibNova technologies are used by more than 50 institutions worldwide, including national libraries, university libraries and national archives and museums. Some information:</div><div><br></div><div>To join the session:</div><div>Date: 30 November 2021</div><div>Time: 1 - 2:30 PM</div><div>Link: <a href="https://meet.google.com/ixn-hpdo-zzu">https://meet.google.com/ixn-hpdo-zzu</a></div><div><br></div><div>Some background information:<br></div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">LIBSAFE is an advanced OAIS / ISO14721-aligned digital preservation software,</span></b><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">
designed for long-term preservation of any kind of object in any size
and format, with any major metadata schema (even user-defined), and will
work with your current storage, cataloguing and discovery systems,
together with robust security and audit programs.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">These are our main digital preservation products:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">LIBSAFE Go </span></b><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">is
the best preservation system available that you can use without
implementation: plug & play! It is a very powerful and easy to use
system that gives you a lot, out of the box, at a really good price. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">LIBSAFE Advanced</span></b><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">
includes all the functionality of Go, with added flexibility and
configurability and also with really robust architecture and advanced
automation. LIBSAFE Advanced, for instance, is what the British Library
is using to preserve its huge and complex collections; when you have
thousands or millions of objects that look the same, Advanced is a great
solution.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">And <b>LABDRIVE</b> is for research data management and preservation. A really innovative approach that has been </span><span style="color:rgb(68,84,106)"><a href="https://www.libnova.com/libnovas-consortium-selected-for-the-cern-led-research-project-to-build-the-next-generation-research-data-preservation-solution/?utm_source=response&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=contact-form" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">winning recognition</span></a></span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">
by leading organizations worldwide in the last few months. LABDRIVE is
usually connected with platforms like Zenodo or Dataverse.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">OpenAccess is an <b>optional module for discovery and access </b>to the collections you have preserved. You can see it in action at </span><span style="color:rgb(68,84,106)"><a href="https://openaccess.libnova.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://openaccess.libnova.com/</span></a></span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">They can be a cloud service or deployed on your own premises.</span></p>
</div><div><br></div><div>Reagrds,</div><div><br></div><div>Wynand<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>
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