By Artefactual
The Archivematica Format Policy Registry is part of the Archivematica project. Archivematica is a web- and standards-based, open-source application which allows your institution to preserve long-term access to trustworthy, authentic and reliable digital content. Our target users are archivists, librarians, and anyone working to preserve digital objects. The Format Policy Registry (FPR) is a database which allows Archivematica users to define format policies for handling file formats. A format policy indicates the actions, tools and settings to apply to a file of a particular file format (e.g. conversion to preservation format, conversion to access format).
The structure of the database is defined here, but the default contents are found in the Archivematica FPR tools repository. The Format Policy Registry is available as the Preservation Planning tab of Archivematica. It is included as a git submodule in Archivematica and the Artefactual-hosted FPR server.
You are free to copy, modify, and distribute Archivematica with attribution under the terms of the AGPL license. See the LICENSE file for details.
Please see the Archivematica production installation or development installation instructions.
- Website: Archivematica user and administrator documentation
- Wiki: Archivematica developer facing documentation, requirements analysis and community resources
- User Google Group: Forum/mailing list for user questions
- Technical Google Group: Forum/mailing list for technical questions about development, setup, administration, etc.
- Paid support: Paid support, hosting, training, consulting and software development contracts from Artefactual
Archivematica consists of several projects working together, including:
- Archivematica: Main repository containing the user-facing dashboard, task manager MCPServer and clients scripts for the MCPClient
- Storage Service: Responsible for moving files to Archivematica for processing, and from Archivematica into long-term storage
- Format Policy Registry: This repository! Submodule shared between Archivematica and the Format Policy Registry (FPR) server that displays and updates FPR rules and commands
For more projects in the Archivematica ecosystem, see the getting started page.