Preserving Petabyte Scale Scientific Research
Ensuring that valuable scientific research is accessible for future use. The Arkivum solution preserves large scale research datasets, promoting environmental sustainability and open access research.
Scientific research institutes generate vast quantities of complex data that often needs to be open, shared and accessible for decades. In short, their data management must align with the FAIR data management principles.
Current solutions keep this data on ageing and hard to manage in-house systems that are expensive, challenging to maintain and are difficult to scale.
Arkivum provides a digital archiving and preservation solution that has been built on the varied and challenging data management use cases of scientific research. Our technology is able to preserve petabyte level datasets, in the most cost-effective and environmentally sustainable way.
Sustainable Scientific Data Management & Preservation
The Arkivum digital archiving and preservation solution supports scientific research institutes by consolidating completed research into a centralised repository. By having all long-term data in one place, it is not only easier to preserve over time, but a more cost-effective and sustainable approach. The Arkivum solution is scalable and robust enough to meet the needs to any research institute, small and large.
Find out more about some of the key features of the solution below.
Data Preservation
Arkivum’s automated digital preservation tool maintains a broad range of content types in long-term formats. Able to preserve documents, video, audio and more, the Arkivum solution ensures the long-term use of your valuable digital content. And all at the scale required by scientists today.
Advanced Data Search
Arkivum’s intuitive search tools make it easy for researchers to navigate vast datasets, ultimately saving time in the process. Scientists and researchers alike can leverage powerful functionality such as custom metadata, full text search and previews within the system to quickly find useful historic research.
Data Management & Access
Easily manage your entire archived research collection through our intuitive browser-based dashboard. Manage users, provide access to scientists and facilitate open access research through our public access module.
Scientific Research Data FAQS
Is there a limit on the amount of data that can be stored within the Arkivum solution?
No, the Arkivum solution is built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and so leverages the infrastructure and scalability of hyper scale cloud. Due to the work on the ARCHIVER project, our system is comfortable managing uploads and processing data at the petabyte scale.
How does the Arkivum solution support environmental sustainability?
The Arkivum solution has several ways in which it supports organisations to archive their data in the most environmentally sustainable way. For example, Arkivum customers have the choice of which storage layer their data will reside in (e.g. fast access vs. deep storage).
For larger volumes of data which require infrequent access, we would highly recommend customers to choose a deeper level storage which requires less computing power, costs less, and has a lower carbon footprint.
For more information on how Arkivum supports organisations in this area, please contact the team here or watch the recording of ‘ARCHIVER: Sustainable Preservation of Petabyte Scale Scientific Data’ here.
Is there a limit to the number of users within the system?
No, Arkivum does not limit the number of users in the system. It would be possible to provide access to as many researchers as required.
Do you provide a public access module as part of your solution?
Yes, Arkivum provide this as an optional module of the solution, delivered through an open-source tool called Access to Memory (AtoM). As part of the module, Arkivum will setup the AtoM system and the connection to the Arkivum archive.
Arkivum also promotes additional integrations by providing an open API to our solution. We provide customers with a full set of documentation to integrate other public access systems with the Arkivum system.
If you have specific access requirements that you would like to discuss with the team, please contact us here.
Can I integrate the Arkivum solution with other systems that I currently have?
Yes, it is possible to integrate Arkivum with other systems through our open API. We provide customers with a full set of documentation to integrate external tools to the archive.
If you would like to find out more about how to integrate Arkivum with your existing systems, please contact us here.