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Morgan Attias, Head of Product Innovation for Infotel Software Division, is proud to announce his participation at the upcoming International Archives Congress (ICA) in Barcelona, taking place from October 27 to 30, 2025. This globally recognized event brings together professionals and experts from the archives and records management community. Morgan… Read More »Morgan Attias Confirmed as Speaker at ICA International Archives Congress Barcelona 2025

At Arcsys, we live and breathe digital preservation. Our core mission is ensuring the long-term safety, accessibility, and integrity of valuable digital assets. A huge part of that mission relies on trust – trust that records haven’t been tampered with, trust in the actions taken over time, trust in the… Read More »Blockchain for Archival Trust? Why We Stick to Proven Traceability Methods

Droid is an open-source library for format identification (https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/manage-information/policy-process/digital-continuity/file-profiling-tool-droid/), nearly indispensable in the toolkit of any digital preservation software. For this reason, we have integrated it into the Arcsys software. When a client contacted us about degraded performance during the archiving process, we did not suspect that it would lead… Read More »At the Heart of a Software Publisher’s Daily Life: Fixing a Performance Bug in Droid with the Help of the Digital Preservation Community

On the train bringing me back to Brussels on Friday, September 20, 2024, it’s time to reflect after attending the iPres 2024 conference in Ghent, Belgium, for the first time. FriPres Day, a New Feature! The first day, a “pre-opening” of iPres on Monday, was also a first for the… Read More »Feedback from iPRES 2024

Hello Sandrine! Can you introduce yourself? Hello, my name is Sandrine Dammene. I am 40 years old and I have been working as a development engineer on the Arcsys product since 2008. I joined the Software department of Infotel after obtaining a DUT in computer science, followed by an L3… Read More »Portrait of our collaborator: Sandrine Dammene

After the initial enthusiasm, the first feeling that seizes those trying their hand at ChatGPT is… disillusionment, in front of the mass of erroneous information that we see it stating with complete aplomb to satisfy its interlocutor (https://flyingbisons.com/blog/hallucinations-of-chatgpt-4-even-the-most-powerful-tool-has-a-weakness). Let us also recall the very expensive fiasco of Google Bard’s demo… Read More »Electronic signatures, ChatGPT and deepfakes: can we trust the source?

In the first part, we noted many common points between personal data backup and electronic document archiving: their value, the need for sorting, the relevance of heterogeneous storage, the integrity of documents, and the search for a provider ensuring reversibility. Let’s not stop here, there are still many similarities! Storage… Read More »From electronic archiving in companies to the safeguarding of personal data: some useful principles! (Part Two)

We won’t repeat it often enough, safeguarding and archiving are not the same thing! It may seem absurd to compare the archiving with legal value that must be carried out by a company on accounting documents, with the safeguarding of its family photos and videos. However, my experience, professionally in… Read More »From electronic archiving in companies to the safeguarding of personal data: some useful principles! (Part One)

QR Codes have been part of our daily lives for many years. The pandemic era has given them even greater visibility, whether they allow you to view a restaurant menu on your phone or to certify your vaccination status thanks to a health pass. A visual information exchange Their main… Read More »QR Codes in Electronic document archiving

This post is an opinion article by Morgän ATTIAS, who provides some feedback and personal experience from recently attending iPRES 22 in Glasgow. Let me start by saying that I was looking forward to this conference. Digital Preservation is a personal passion of mine, and iPRES is clearly the place… Read More »Feedback from iPres22