SummaryYou don’t need to save everything all at once; you just need to start with a story. Building a personal archive isn’t about uploading as many files as possible. It’s about choosing the right ones to tell a complete story. A good story in an archive has layers. It might include a few photos, a short video clip, or a voice recording. Different formats bring out different sides of the story. Your free 1 GB gives you room to do this. It can hold around 10,000 PDF documents, 12 hour...| Permanent.org
Preserving your story isn’t just about memory. It’s about identity, belonging, and connection. When we document local stories, we help build stronger, more inclusive communities. And the best part? It all starts with you.| Permanent.org
Our custom metadata gives you a flexible way to describe your digital legacy in your own words. With this feature, you’re not limited to predefined fields, and you can go beyond basic file info and start building an archive that reflects your unique history and relationships. The post Go Beyond Basic File Info with Custom Metadata on Permanent appeared first on Permanent.org.| Permanent.org
At Permanent.org, we believe that preserving community stories should be accessible to all. In this guest blog post, we spotlight a recent Byte4Byte internship at The Peale in Baltimore, where University of Maryland graduate student Nicolas Lizarralde helped organize and add metadata to their Out of the Blocks oral history collection. His work not only helped make these powerful community voices more accessible, but also provided The Peale with a clearer path toward sustainable digital preser...| Permanent.org
What We’re Working On March wraps up the first quarter of the year, and our team has been working on a number of improvements that will hopefully make a big difference in our members’ ability to connect with others through the preservation work they’re doing on Permanent. We know that you preserve your legacy or a legacy that’s important to you on Permanent in the hopes that someone – whether that be your loved ones or your great-great-great grandchild – will find meaning in your ...| Permanent.org
The 3-2-1 Rule is designed to create multiple layers of protection for your digital files, ensuring you’re never left without access to your important data.| Permanent.org
As we celebrate Love Your Data Week, take a moment to reflect on how you’re making informed decisions to preserve and protect your digital legacy. The post Whose Data Is It, Anyway? How Permanent.org Stands Apart appeared first on Permanent.org.| Permanent.org
What We’re Working On Each quarter, our engineers spend the first two weeks prioritizing “potholes” – updates, improvements, and bug fixes that might slip through the cracks with all the other projects they’re working on. This includes updating other open-source software and libraries that Permanent depends on and improvements that help to create a better code environment for our engineers. Our engineering team worked on some of those improvements in January and has now shifted gear...| Permanent.org
External media, including jump drives, external hard drives, and memory cards, are essential tools for storing files, photos, and videos. As we amass these devices over time, they can add to clutter and become disorganized.| Permanent.org
Happy New Year to the Permanent.org community! The Permanent team is ready to get to work on a number of exciting projects this year. Don’t forget to check out our Member Improvement List for smaller bugs and improvements, but read on for the major projects we’re working on this quarter. What We’re Working On Share with others without a Permanent account (beta): We’ve heard your feedback, and we’re excited to share that we are working on a way for members to share materials with lov...| Permanent.org
What We’re Working On Wow, what a year it has been for us at Permanent! We have been working on a number of projects, and have managed to wrap up many of them. Read below for an update on what we’re working on and what we’ve accomplished lately. New files uploaded are processed by Archivematica: Our back-end engineer, Liam, has been very busy this year working to integrate Archivematica as our preservation processing system in the back end. As of this month, when you upload a file on Pe...| Permanent.org
What We’re Working On As we begin wrapping up the year, the Permanent team is working diligently to close out some major projects that have been ongoing this year. Continue Archivematica Integration Work: This quarter, our back-end engineer, Liam, is working on displaying Archivematica-generated access copies of your files in your archive. This is a major milestone for this project! While you will likely not see any difference, new files displayed on Permanent will have been processed usi...| Permanent.org
What We’re Working On At Permanent, we work on a quarterly cadence on several big projects. September wraps up the third quarter of the year, and our team has been working on a number of important projects that we hope to wrap up this month. Below are some highlights about the progress we’ve made this quarter on these projects (check out July’s Product Updates blog post for more information about these projects). Continue Archivematica Integration Work: The Permanent application has pre...| Permanent.org
Discover how Cliff beautifully captures and shares the rich stories of his family's four branches, spanning from the mid-1800s to today. Learn how our platform can help you display, honor, and preserve your own family history.| Permanent.org
At Permanent, our mission is to preserve and provide access to the rich and varied stories of all people for the educational benefit of the future. We aim to provide you with the tools you need to preserve your legacy. We are constantly working on improving our platform to provide you with a better experience and more functionality to accomplish your goals. To keep you informed about new features and any requests you may have submitted to us, we have created two resources: our Product Roadmap...| Permanent.org
This month, we are delighted to announce the public unveiling of the King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center Archive. As one of our Byte4Byte partners, the Center has worked tirelessly to make their collections accessible through a digital archive on Permanent. Keep reading to learn about the creation and value of this archive, which holds significant educational and historical benefit for current and future generations. Throughout this blog, you will find items from the Center’s collect...| Permanent.org
We are thrilled to share some big news with you: TightKnit is now a part of Permanent.org. This amazing in-kind donation of a web app platform is a first for the Permanent Legacy Foundation, and it’s a huge step forward in our mission to preserve and steward the digital legacies of all people. Let’s explore why our partnership with TightKnit is such a great match, what an in-kind donation means, and what are our plans for the future of TightKnit. Permanent.org and TightKnit, A Perfect Fit...| Permanent.org
In our last blog post, you saw how publishing your materials in our Permanent Public Gallery helps your loved ones remember you for who you are. Public archives allow you to author your story, in your own words, in a way that reflects the legacy you wish to leave behind. Beyond that, you can also honor the memories of your loved ones by curating a public archive that captures their life’s joys and triumphs. “The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them...| Permanent.org
Publishing materials helps ensure that you are remembered for who you are. During March of 2024 we ran the first cohort of our Legacy Lab program. The program was designed to help our members get started by giving them step-by-step instructions on how to tell a single story using our platform, resulting in several new public archives in the Permanent Public Gallery. The Permanent Public Gallery is how we celebrate the power of personal stories and the impact they can have on future generation...| Permanent.org
All people have a legacy that deserves to be preserved. In other words, we believe it is an essential human right to be able to preserve your legacy. A single story from someone who cares can inspire others to leave the world a better place. One such example of this is the “The I Defend Rights – Memria x Norwegian Human Rights Fund Archive” in our public gallery. Leveraging oral histories recorded on Memria.org, the Norwegian Human Rights Fund’s archive on Permanent acts as a place to...| Permanent.org
Permanent supports community archiving through our Byte4Byte granting program, which allows our grantees and partners to secure 100GB of cloud storage and intern support for their unique projects and efforts in this area. The post The Importance of and Opportunities for Community Archiving on Permanent appeared first on Permanent.org.| Permanent.org
