Libnova is a leader in digital preservation, constantly working to enable organizations to preserve large volumes of data over long periods of time efficiently. Their solution, LIBSAFE, is an OAIS-compliant long term digital archiving software that is standards-based, powerful, easy to use, affordable, secure, and future proof. It provides a comprehensive and turnkey solution for ingestion, preservation, retrieval and evolution of digital content with automated processes and low costs.

1. Technology changes. Information prevails.
IMPACT Meeting
Dec 2015

2. Company presentation

3. Leader in digital preservation
Constantly working to enable organizations to be able to
keep alive high volumes of data over long periods of time
in an efficient way.
> The team: 34 people. > Revenue: x3 last year.
> Customers in 5 countries > Offices in Miami and Madrid

4. OAIS compliant Long Term
Digital Archiving software
Digital Preservation Storage
Operative System
Digital Preservation
Services
Our offer

5. Our offer: LIBSAFE Overview
- Standards based
OAIS aligned
ISO 16,363 (TRAC aligned)
- Capable
+2Pb installations operative. Images, audio, video.
- Powerful
Validation, conformance, data format evolution,
hardware migration and much more.
- Easy to use
Modern HTML, web based, fast, UX, no java.
- Affordable
Affordable license. Pay only for ingested Tb.
Unlimited user seats.
- Secure
The system audits itself. Medical software and ISO
27,001 guidelines applied.
- Future proof
Open Source if we fail. Code escrow that will
disclose LIBSAFE as open source if LIBNOVA fails.
OAIS compliant Long Term Digital Archiving solution

6. Our offer: Main benefits
- Fast to deploy and use. Turnkey solution
Basic or medium requirements, nothing to implement. Install and it’s ready to go.
A lot of ready to use checks and open source tools.
Very intuitive and easy to use interface (all web based).
- Reduces the preservation costs. Enables preservation at low cost.
> From the preservation perspective: Automates procedures and workflows, automates data evolution, assures
a good preservation quality, makes it easy to certify (TRAC).
> From the IT perspective: Gives the Archive Manager autonomy for preservation planning. For instance, data
migration between servers is automated (install new server, launch migration job from server A to server B and
disconnect server A when finished; libsafe will migrate and verify all the data)
- One solution. Comprehensive
Except some early digital preservation tasks (forensic related), most part of the needs are already
implemented.
Easy to connect to other platforms (plug-in architecture, hot folders for automated ingestion, URL queries and
retrieval, full API (80% of functions for early 2016, 100% for late 2016 version).
- Peace of mind
The platform is secure by design. Nothing is deleted, control files not overwritten but timestamped, all the data
is written in at least two different locations (for instance, database and disk XML files), WORM system.

7. Our offer: Processes
Ingestion job
Sanitizer
Preprocessor
Performs an initial cleaning of the
object, deleting unwanted files,
fixing file attributes and
permissions and verifying strange
characters in file names or long
paths.
Applies customer defined
processes over the objects, like
generating new derivatives,
renaming certain files, extracting
OCR, etc.
Validator
Performs checks over the objects,
its folder and files, to verify
compliance. Verify the existence of
a folder with a particular name, file
numbers without gaps, sizes, jhove
validation, etc.
Explorer
Extracts descriptive and technical
metadata from the objects,
including its characterization (real
file format of a file). The
descriptive metadata XML could be
a METS, TXT, raw XML, XSLT
Transformation or custom plugin
(extracting from remote database,
webservice, catalog API, etc.)
Archiver
To lower the risks (and to certify
using TRAC), at least two managed
copies of every object should be
made. LIBSAFE will make and
manage those copies over the
storage servers without
intervention. At least two and as
many as the customer wants. Ideal
for remote/cloud copies.
Auditor
This module verifies all the work
done by previous modules. Is some
information should be in the
database, verifies it. If a stored file
should have certain MD5 hash,
hashes it again and verifies it. With
this module, end-to-end corruption
detection is implemented.
Pre-SIP:
From this point,
all works without
user intervention.
>>> >>>
Preserved object
or objects.
AIP is generated
Hot Folders
Web Interface
RESTful API
>>>

8. Our offer: Processes
Retrieval job (DIP generation)
Browse or search the collection metadata
and retrieve individual files or complete
objects.
Using URL catalogs feature, it is possible
to access an object from a URL call.
Customer can add code to fit particular
needs.
It is possible to launch a full retrieve job to
extract all objects from the platform in a
standard way.
Retrieve by URL Full retrieveRetrieve using catalog

9. Our offer: Processes
Audit job
This module verifies the coherence of all preservation data sources periodically, generating
warnings if needed.
When ingesting, LIBSAFE generates the MD5 hash for all ingested files and stores them in two
data repositories: system database and security XML files stored in the filesystem paired to the
object they represent.
Every N days (1 week, 1 month, etc.) the system will enumerate objects needing auditing and
launch an auditing job without user intervention. This job will regenerate every MD5 of every
copy of every file and match it against stored MD5 in database and security XML file. Changing,
erasing or adding anything anywhere without following ingestion methods will lead to integrity
fault and will raise an alarm.

10. Our offer: Processes
Evolution job
Technology changes, rendering original content obsolete.
The LIBSAFE dynamic preservation engine allows for
maintaining file formats, metadata schemas and digital
signatures up to date, keeping digital material alive so that it
remains usable over time.
File format evolution
In the ingestion, real format of every file is extracted. For
selected formats, migration is possible. This feature allows
evolving TIF 4.0 to TIF 6.0 or PDF 1.3 to PDF/A, for instance.
Metadata schemas evolution
Not only files need evolution. Metadata schemas change
over time. This feature allows schema to schema evolution.
Digital signature evolution
Digital signature of legal documents may expire. This feature
allows to resign documents without user intervention.

11. Our offer: Other features
Reports
Several reports are available. More on the way.

12. Our offer: Other features
LIBDATA OS
Lowest cost/TB with digital preservation exclusive
features (WORM, Local Hash, DeepSleep, etc)

13. Final
Technology changes. Information prevails.
libnova EMEA & LATAM
Paseo de la Castellana, 153
Madrid - España
Tel: +34 91 449 08 94
Fax: +34 91 141 21 21
contacto@libnova.com
LIBNOVA USA
14 NE First Ave (2nd Floor)
Miami, Florida 33132, USA
Tel: +1 844-894-6532
jcromero@libnova.com
contact@libnova.com