Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group has announced that State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has selected Ex Libris Rosetta to demonstrate management and preservation of its digital collections. Rosetta's unique end-to-end digital asset management and preservation framework will support the complete lifecycle of 'born digital' content - from ingest and acquisition through description to digital object management, preservation, and end user discovery. Rosetta would replace the Library's existing Ex Libris DigiTool installation, which was used up to now to manage its extensive digital, audio, and video collections.
Prior to adopting Rosetta, State Library of Queensland selected the Ex Libris Alma library management service and has run the Ex Libris Primo discovery and delivery solution for more than four years. Harnessing Alma's integrated workflows for the management of all library resources - whether print, electronic, or digital - Rosetta will enable the Library to manage and preserve its digital collections in perpetuity, as well as born-digital objects such as web sites and research data. Implementation of Rosetta will begin with a pilot phase in which SLQ will evaluate the Library's unique requirements for Rosetta, and following a successful pilot, aim to continue to a full implementation.
Installed in libraries and archives worldwide, Rosetta encompasses the entire digital preservation workflow, including the acquisition, validation, ingest, storage, preservation, and delivery of digital objects. Rosetta enables academic institutions as well as libraries, archives, and other memory institutions to manage, preserve, and provide access in perpetuity to institutional documents, research output in digital formats, digital images, websites, and other digitally born and digitised materials.
