Flexible Intake Benefits

Flexible Intake provides the following benefits to modern organizations that are approaching digital preservation:

Low entry barrier for content with maximum protection for the preserved content

Drag and drop your content, and it becomes instantly protected:

• Fully transparent and automated geo-dispersed, self-healing copies in the selected geographic area.

• Automated integrity information creation, with MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 hashes generated automatically by default, with the optional generation of another 17 types of hashes.

• Integrity verification process upon ingestion for multiple types of packages, including md5sum, BagIt 0.97 and 1.00, CSV, METS and others. Can be easily extended to other types.

• Monthly integrity verifications for the whole collection.

• For extra security and convenience, the platform supports SAML-based authentication (Shibboleth). As LIBNOVA is a member of major EU and US Access Federations, there is very little to configure to have Single Sign On and directory-based managed authentication.

Advanced digital preservation

Many digital preservation processes work simply out of the box. Advanced users can extend them to achieve anything they need:

• Fully automated format characterization for ingested content with support for more than 2,000 formats.

• Flexible and highly adaptable format validation, technical metadata extraction and format conversion by using the Flexible Intake Functions.

• Users can design their custom processing workflows, to apply automated or manual processes to their content.

• More than 200 API methods to programmatically interact with the platform in every aspect.

• Fully aligned with OAIS, ISO16363 standards.

• Python library to create your power scripts faster.

Everything findable and organized

Your content is immediately discoverable, including full-text search. You can add your own metadata and you can rearrange its structure in the platform:

• Flexible Intake supports unlimited metadata schemas, so your metadata is supported, no matter how complex it is. The platform supports not only standard metadata, such as Dublin Core, MARC21, etc, but also custom schemas.

• File preview for more than 300 file formats, even if you don't have the software to open them, including Autocad files, Office, multimedia, etc.

• Different collections can have different metadata schemas. Some of your content can be described with Dublin Core while some other can be with MARC21.

• Embedded metadata for more than 800 file formats (including PDF, Images, Office documents, CAD, etc.) is automatically extracted from your files and indexed, becoming instantly searchable.

• The metadata you add to your objects is searchable, and can be used to group, filter or facet your content.

• Full-text from more than 300 formats is automatically extracted and searchable, including context highlighting and fuzzy search.

Easy to use

• Modern, clean and powerful web interfaces.

• Easy learning curve that allows users to easily learn how to use the platform in a few hours.

• Cloud option requires nothing to deploy and nothing to configure.

Vendor lock-in free

• Best-in-class exit strategy. Migrating to other platforms is simple and requires little effort.

• Interoperation with standard metadata formats, such as Dublin Core, MARC21, EAD, METS; packages, such as BagIt, METS and multiple ways to import or export any data or metadata (CSV, JSON, Excel files, etc.).

• Optional Active Data Escrow copy in AWS Deep Glacier for a comprehensive exit path: We provide you a set of Amazon AWS credentials to a bucket in which we mirror all your files, full metadata, events and logs in standard formats, so you can independently access your data anytime and in any possible scenario.