The Archivematica project was launched a year ago as a follow-up to a report entitled Towards an Open Source Repository and Preservation System which was released by the UNESCO Memory of the World Sub-Committee on Technology in 2007. The report surveyed then existing open-source tools for digital preservation, concluding that although a wide variety of such tools were available, they were neither comprehensive nor integrated enough to provide a complete ingest-to-access environment for preserving digital records.
