From: Amy Kirchhoff <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 18:09:25 +0000

Libraries around the world are moving rapidly to holding digital
collections, but will all those bits and bytes be here in the future?
ITHAKA, a not-for-profit leader in developing new solutions to advance
and preserve knowledge, is making sure the answer to that question is
yes. Today the organization announced that its large-scale digital
preservation service Portico now preserves one billion files or, in
practical terms, more than 20,000 e-journals, 400,000 e-books, and 600
million images that include vast collections of historical newspapers.

Portico has nearly doubled the amount of content it preserves in the
past year, representing the ingestion of more than 24 million files
per month into the archive, and pushing it over the one billion mark.

“Our growth is largely due to improvements in production efficiency
and capacity as well as the trust that publishers large and small have
in us to preserve and protect their content,” noted Kate Wittenberg,
Portico managing director. “Massive collections from publishers such
as Gale Cengage brought in more than 100 terabytes of content in 2015
alone. And smaller publishers who are most at risk for no longer being
able to provide access to their content in the future—those publishing
10 titles or fewer—are joining Portico to ensure their work survives
long into the future.”

Portico has also expanded its services and the files it archives by
working with libraries with special mandates and obligations to
preserve content. Both the British Library and the Koninklijke
Bibliotheek are partnering with Portico to meet commitments to
preserve academic content. Additionally, Portico is working with
fellow-ITHAKA service, the digital library JSTOR, to preserve the 70
million pages of journal content it has digitized and brought online.

“Digital preservation is a massive challenge that cannot be solved by
any single library,” said Robert Wolven, Associate University
Librarian for Bibliographic Services and Collection Development,
Columbia University Libraries. “Portico gives us a way to act
collectively on our preservation mission to ensure that our
intellectual history will be accessible to future generations 50 or
100 years from now.”

Read the full release at
http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/news-events/news/global-preservation-effort-portico-tops-one-billion-files

To learn more about digital preservation, Portico, and the community
of libraries and publishers participating in this effort, visit
www.portico.org.

Amy J. Kirchhoff
Archive Service Product Manager
Portico, JSTOR
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