Ramona Adams
MediaValet has received a contract to help store, secure and manage the U.S. Naval Institute’s library of historic assets as part of the nonprofit professional military association’s long-term digitization project.
The cloud software maker and service provider said Thursday the USNI team wants a digital management system that will consolidate the non-profit military association’s historical assets, educational material and marketing collateral into a central online library.
“As we embarked on our digitization project, we quickly realized that we needed a highly secure and robust system that could easily handle our massive collection of historical images as well as the many new images, audio, video, and documents we are adding every day,” said Mary Ripley, Naval Institute chief digital officer.
USNI’s digital files were previously stored on locally hosted servers, desktops, local hosting companies and consumer photo sites which made it time-consuming to search for assets, MediaValet said.
The Naval Institute’s more than 150-year-old archive contains approximately 500,000 photos, thousands of documents and hundreds of primary source materials.
