This course is based on a CEF/E-ARK3 webinar led by ES Solutions in which Björn Skog and Andreas Segerberg introduced the ESSArch archival solution. Splitted recordings of the webinar that used in this course are viewed from the EARK youtube channel.  The webinar information, slides and a full recording are located on the CEF website here.

The course does not cover the installation of ESSArch on your own machine, virtual machine or docker, instead, it is expected that anyone taking this course already has access to the system. ESSArch installation instructions can be found here


This course intents to teach the very basics of e-archiving, with many different forms of learning



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This course is based on Relational Database Archiving webinar (29/04/21) webinar by  Anders Bo Nielsen and Phillip Aasvang Tømmerholt from the Danish National Archives . Main content relates to using the SIARD (Software Independent Archiving of Relational Databases) format and packaging SIARD in an E-ARK information package.

This course presents open source tools for digital preservation in a highly practical way