The University of London Computer Centre and Arkivum Partnering

The University of London Computer Centre (ULCC), an IT service provider to the UK education sector, and Arkivum Ltd, providers of digital archiving solutions, announced their strategic partnership.

The partnership enables ULCC’s Academic & Research Technologies team to offer an integrated, long term digital preservation solution to the academic, heritage and special collections sector – by adding large scale and long term digital archiving capabilities to its existing service portfolio of digital preservation training (DPTP / link), consultancy, and repository development and management.

Richard Davis, Head of Academic & Research Technologies, ULCC said: “The costs and complexity of implementing best practice in data management and digital preservation can be prohibitive. With Arkivum’s clearly-defined, no-nonsense service levels, data security and cost transparency are assured, and costs can be readily forecast for organisations or individual projects. We expect it to be of particular benefit to Higher Education institutions, seeking trusted storage for research data, cultural heritage organisations with large digitised collections, and any organisation needing to manage valuable business records and digital assets over the long-term.”

ULCC’s Managed Digital Archive Service offers a way to access Arkivum’s service, through a shared Arkivum gateway, further backed by decades of experience in managing digital archives and data repositories at ULCC. 

“We delighted to be working with ULCC,” said Jim Cook, CEO, Arkivum. “Working together, we are able to offer ULCC’s customers the ability to archive their long term digital data regardless of whether the need is for 5 years, 10 years or much longer. We can safeguard the integrity of the data and provide piece of mind against any compliance or regulatory needs – now, tomorrow and long into the future.“