Not Just File Storage.

Curate helps anyone ensure their files are safe, accessible and organised. Curate helps you upload files to a protected and cost-effective storage environment, ensure they are not compromised by malicious data, provide you with the information to understand exactly what content you posess and give you an intuitive, accessible portal from which you can directly view or download your content at any time. 

Curate helps you manage, organise, protect and access your digital objects. Curate can work standalone or in combination with an existing digital preservation solution. 

Curate is perfect for enhancing preservation workflows because of its cost-effective archival storage, built in metadata functionality, its file indentification tools and its intuitive UI. It can even form the core basis of a minimally viable preservation system, but because Curate does not offer format migration, emulation or other preservation methods it's recommended to use Curate alongside your chosen preservation tool. 

Curate doesn't require a powerful server or even an expensive home computer to allow you to use it to it's fullest potential. Curate can be accessed with all of it's features and every drop of performance from any desktop, laptop or even your mobile phone, no matter the operating system.

Curate was designed with simplicity and ease-of-use in mind. While knowledge of digital curation, common metadata standards and preservation tools will empower you, Curate can be maximally exploited by any computer user with experience with common file-interfacing apps. Curate requires no training or experience to immediately begin protecting your files for the future. 

Curate is a fully managed and optimised experience. Whether you're a constant user, or an infrequent tinkerer, Curate will always be running on the latest and most stable infrastructure available when you sign in- that's it. You never need to worry about patching, installing or even maintenance. 

Curate supports several methods of uploading content: through its highly performant web-uploader, a secure ftp connection or even through a portable file portal you can send directly to your collaborators. By using the most efficient code-foundations available, Curate can handle uploads of thousands of files simultaneously, and is able to make complete use of your local network's maximum upload potential. 

Curate is based on the most efficient development tools and resources available. This means it's able to fully deliver the power of the local, high-performance Amazon host server directly to your browser. 

Curate uses several tools to deliver it's data-protection functionality. Files in Curate are scanned for viruses using ClamAV and identified with Seigfried. By integrating with many of the most popular digital preservation tools, Curate can form a minimally viable preservation system with best-in-class useability, performance and productivity. 

Curate is hosted in London. Files stored in the Curate archival space are placed in archival-standard storage, which is automatically dual-replicated to both locally distinct and geographically separated systems. In the event of a system failure or outage, your content is almost guaranteed to be protected. You have full and immediate access to any file stored in Curate, whether that's previewing an image over the cloud, or downloading a full set of media to one of your portable devices.

Curate can not only comprise a complete solution for many challenges on it's own, it can also be used to greatly enhance the simplicity and functionality of many exisiting workflows. Curate allows you to simply build submission packages in a consolidated and intuitive environment, then export them directly to leading preservation software tools. You can also use Curate to provide robust access to any exisiting archive or data-store, with full support for previewing, viewing, and analysing your files and collections. 

Your Curate subscription is supported by experienced, highly knowledgeable and local staff who are available during full UK business hours to help you get the most out of your subscription. If you have any questions, you can have a chat with us via the contact us page.

Once you've signed up, you'll be given immediate access to your active Curate account. You can follow the interactive walkthrough to see the interface's basic functions, and you can refer to our documentation for a more detailed insight in to what Curate can do. No matter your confidence or experience level, Curate is intuitively easy to use and encourages you to get files on to the system and protected as simply as possible. 

Please feel free to get in touch if you have any reservations about Curate or how you might begin to apply Curate to your workflow.