Consulting Services
Artefactual Systems provides analysis, design and systems integration services to organizations that are implementing:Digital Preservation StrategiesInstitutional plans to maintain the long-term accessibility and usability of digital information by assessing technology obsolescence risks, organizational capacity and best practice solutions | Digital Archives SystemsSystems to manage the capture (ingest), storage, preservation, administration and access to digital information (e.g. electronic document repositories, digital photo and media collections, website archives, etc.) | Archival Description Softwaresoftware that manages the metadata and contextual information for collections of archival materials using professional standards for archival description |
Services Offered
- Preparing digital preservation strategies
- Drafting system requirements
- Designing system architectures
- Evaluating vendors, products and technologies
- Integrating open-source and/or commercial software systems
- Providing presentations, workshops and courses
Practical, Objective Analysis...with an Open bias
Even though we are the ICA-AtoM lead developers, Artefactual Systems works with whatever product, technology and methodology is the best fit for your organization. Often times this is a blend of your existing Information Technology investments with new commercial and/or open-source solutions.That said, our expertise and interests are in open-source, open-standard technologies for archival institutions and digital repositories. We approach these from the viewpoint of archival science, professional standards and industry best practices.