Introducing a best-in-class digital preservation and presentation solution

AM, a global publisher whose digital collections and technology platforms enrich the study, research and teaching of primary sources, has partnered with Preservica, a global leader in Active Digital Preservation archiving.

The collaboration has resulted in an integration that enables users of AM’s digital collections platform, AM Quartex, to publish engaging, interactive and accessible digital archives and to effortlessly preserve their collections, including assets and metadata, to prevent loss and degradation using Preservica’s Active Digital Preservation technology.

Preservica and AM have partnered to fill a gap in the market for digital collections managers who are working on two critical and distinct areas of digital collections management:

1. Digital preservation, including the long-term care and conversion of digitised and born-digital assets in over 2,000 file formats.
2. Digital curation for public-facing assets that enhances the research experience and allows for a deeper understanding of assets within a broader context.

By partnering, Preservica and AM provide two best-in-class SaaS cloud-based solutions that offer advanced functionality, simple workflows and a holistic, well-rounded digital ecosystem.

This visual representation shows what the Preservica and AM Quartex integration will look like, illustrating how information can flow and be used across the two systems.

With the integration, Preservica would serve as a more administrative or internal-facing system to digitally preserve your collections. AM Quartex would serve as your discovery layer, as well as enabling you to enhance descriptions which can, in turn, be fed back to your preserved files in Preservica.

While the flow of information will be between these two systems primarily, the arrows on the diagram highlight that both Preservica and AM Quartex offer additional APIs to push your content to other systems as well.

Starting with the first two steps in the process, all of your content would be ingested into Preservica. From there, Preservica will generate derivatives for more regular access or for pushing to your public-facing DAM and portal with AM Quartex, and those derivatives will be optimised for web publication.

In AM Quartex, you have full control over editing and cataloguing those assets, from applying standard metadata schemas, or adding additional customised fields, to creating controlled vocabularies to group together common or important themes within your collections.

You can then build your collections, add static content pages for contextualisation and use data visualisations such as digital exhibits or timelines to create gateways into your collections and bring them to life. The layout and appearance of your site is in your hands; Quartex provides complete customisation as well as a host of accessibility adjustments to make your site as usable and accessible as possible.

All of the additional data that you’ve created about your assets in AM Quartex can then be fed back to Preservica through webhooks to ensure that you are preserving a full record of that asset over a given time. Once that data is shared to Preservica, you can then continue to manage and describe your assets.

Finally, your assets will also be continually protected and preserved through Active Digital Preservation.

Get in touch with our AM Quartex sales team to find out more