About
Authors
Information
Type: Digital Library
License: AGPLv3
Timeline: 2009
Institution: Artefactual Systems Inc.
Links
Home Page - archivematica.org
Demo Site - username: demo@example.com password: demodemo
Source Code - github.com
Motivation
From their documentation page:
The goal of the Archivematica project is to give archivists and librarians with limited technical and financial capacity the tools, methodology and confidence to begin preserving digital information today. The project has conducted a thorough OAIS use case and process analysis to synthesize the specific, concrete steps that must be carried out to comply with the OAIS functional model from Ingest to Access. Through deployment experiences and user feedback, the project has expanded even beyond OAIS to address analysis and arrangement of transferred digital objects into SIPs and allow for archival appraisal at multiple decision points. Wherever possible, these requirements are assigned to software tools within the Archivematica system. If it is not possible to automate these steps in the current system iteration, they are incorporated and documented into a manual procedure to be carried out by the end user. This ensures that the entire set of preservation requirements is being carried out, even in the early, pre 1.0 system releases. In short, the system is conceptualized as an integrated whole of technology, people and procedures, not just a set of software tools. For institutions that want technical assistance to install and customize Archivematica, optional technical support services are provided by Artefactual Systems.
Rubric
✔ - Yes
✗ - No
○ - Yes, but with concession
· - Inapplicable
? - Unknown
| Infrastructure | ||
| Self-Hosting | ✔ | It is meant to be hosted. |
| Provides Metadata | ✔ | It supports a wide variety of metadata standards such as METS, PREMIS, Dublin Core, and BagIt. |
| Provides Hardware Diversity | ✗ | It does not run code. |
| Dispatches Work to Cloud Machines | ✗ | |
| Provides a Web Portal | ✔ | Archivematica is an entire web suite for deploying digital libraries and archives on a per-site basis. |
| Provides Performance Monitoring | ✗ |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs Code | ✗ | |
| File Storage | ✔ | |
| Collaboration Controls | ❓ | |
| Provides Citations | ❓ | |
| Interactive Graphing | ❓ | |
| Can Combine Objects Interactively | ✗ | |
| Can Archive/Run GUI Tools | ✗ | |
| Can Hook to External Services | ✗ |
| Access | ||
| Public view of object | ✔ | |
| Access Permissions for Editing | ❓ | |
| Access Permissions for Reading | ❓ | |
| Access Permissions for Anon Review | ❓ |
| Provenance | ||
| Search | ✔ | |
| Globally Unique Identifiers for Projects | ✔ | Standard UUIDs |
| Provides URL to Project / Data | ✔ |
| Governance | ||
| Open Source | ✔ | AGPLv3 |
| Allows Modification / Redistribution | ✔ | |
| Has a Free-to-Use Package | ✔ | |
| Has a Student Package | · | |
| Has a Paid Package | · |
Walkthrough
Infrastructure
Capabilities
Access
Provenance
Governance
Strengths
To be discussed.
Breakdown
Weaknesses
To be discussed.
Breakdown
Unique Features
To be discussed.
Best-Practice Influences
To be discussed.
Digital Library Incorporation Issues
To be discussed.
Applied Use-cases
To be discussed.