V.6.0 Digital Archiving and Preservation Solution From Arkivum

Arkivum Ltd. announced version 6.0 of digital archiving and preservation solution.

This release has improved the overall performance of the solution whilst introducing several new features.

Incorporating Archiver improvements
For much of the last 2 years, the company has been involved in the Archiver project, a European Commission initiative focused on developing state of the art digital preservation services for large, petabyte scale scientific datasets as part of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). This work has been in collaboration with the Google Cloud Platform.

Although the development work for the project has been managed separately, a major element of this release was to incorporate many of the improvements and functionality into firm’s core product. It’s enabled to manage and process much larger datasets, more reliably and in shorter amounts of time.

Although firmly rooted within scientific research datasets, the work conducted as part of the Archiver project will provide benefits to company’s customers.

New features:

1- Enhanced search capability
The files screen UI brings with it several benefits for customers who want to view the data stored within the archive. The tree folder structure view presents data in a familiar hierarchy format (similar to how folders are structured on a PC) that allows a user to expand each folder and see the content contained within.

For company’s life sciences customers, this will allow them to view the data in a hierarchy format similar to the Reference Model, displaying the zone, section and artefact (or any other hierarchy they may use) that data is located in.

This new functionality along with the new and improved search bar, makes it easier for users to navigate their archived data, finding the right information quickly and easily.

2- Expanded data ingestion
The Archiver project has driven the technology changes necessary to enable greater, quicker and more efficient data ingestion than ever before. The solution is able to ingest up to 10TB+ a day (whereas previously this was 1TB).

3- Greater reporting options available
Version 6.0 brings offers several new reports:

Ingestion report: Users will be able to view all jobs that are in progress, as well as the datasets they reside in.

Processing report: When searching for a file, metadata processing will inform users when files are processed, encryption details, information for when checksum and fixity checks were last done and more.

Preservation report: Allows users to track the progress of preservation across the system.

4- Self-serve capability
Firstly, users will have the ability to create their own datasets (the groups under which content or studies sit under) as well as the ability to assign the initial namespace (metadata set) associated with it and add more in the future if required.

Secondly, admins can create their own custom namespace (which are Arkivum’s metadata sets), ensuring that their exact data requirements are captured when retaining important content.

Validated for regulated customers
For customers operating in regulated life sciences markets, this version has been through firm’s computerised system validation (CSV) process lead by independent partner, Boston Technology Research Corp. (BTR).

CSV is a process used to test, validate and formally document that a regulated computer-based system does exactly what it is designed to do in a consistent and accurate manner that is secure, reliable and traceable.

The firm’s current customers will receive all the validation documentation to aid with the upgrade of their solution.

Chris Sigley, CEO, said of the announcement: “Borne out of our work on the Archiver Project, this latest release has been a while in the making. It represents a significant step forward for Arkivum. Last year’s work on our solution has seen us drastically improve our capability regarding scale, efficiency, ingest and usability, whilst simultaneously making the product more robust. I’m excited and proud of what the team has achieved, and I am looking forward to migrating and upgrading our customers to this latest release so they can see for themselves the work that the team has achieved.”