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CHESA helps museums, libraries, and archives design, integrate, and support the preservation-grade infrastructure that cultural and historical media collections require.
Preservation-Grade Digital Archives
Design and integrate archive systems with immutable storage, LTO and cloud tiering, and the recoverable formats long-horizon preservation requires.
Multi-Format Capture & Digitization
Build digitization workflows that capture film, video, audio, photographic, and document formats at preservation standards.
Provenance & Chain-of-Custody Documentation
Operationalize provenance tracking, C2PA-aligned credentialing, and immutable audit trails that meet scholarly and institutional standards.
Discovery & Design Before the Build
Document current collections, map preservation requirements, identify the at-risk media, and create a phased roadmap that respects institutional governance.
Systems Integration Across Capture, Storage & Public Access
Connect digitization, MAM, archive, and public access systems into a workflow that preserves originals while serving researchers and the public.
Service Level Agreements with Institution-Aware Support
Keep preservation infrastructure running with proactive maintenance and response tiers that respect institutional governance and budget cycles.
Tangible outcomes our museum, library, and archive customers achieve once their preservation infrastructure is designed, integrated, and supported the right way.
Build archive systems that protect content across the decades preservation actually requires.
Maintain immutable provenance records that meet scholarly, institutional, and emerging C2PA standards.
Operate access systems that serve researchers and the public while keeping preservation masters protected.
Digitize at-risk film, video, audio, and photographic media before format obsolescence makes it unreadable.
Integrate MAM, archive, public access, and institutional metadata systems so collections are findable across departments.
Museum, library, and archive teams are responsible for more than digitization. They are managing preservation governance, scholarly access, donor relationships, public exhibition, conservation requirements, format migration, provenance documentation, and the institutional politics that come with long-horizon stewardship — often with a smaller technology footprint than commercial media organizations of similar scale.
Designed against archival standards with immutable storage, recoverable formats, and the redundancy long-horizon preservation requires.
Built with provenance, chain-of-custody, and audit trail documentation that meets scholarly and institutional expectations.
Engineered to outlast the people who design them — with format migration paths, vendor independence, and recoverable architectures.
Connected to public and researcher access systems without compromising preservation masters.
Structured around the governance, budget cycles, and donor reporting realities cultural institutions actually operate in.
CHESA works collaboratively with museums, libraries, and archives to understand how your collections are managed today, where current systems are creating preservation risk, and what your institutional mission requires going forward.
Whether you are starting with a discovery engagement, planning a digitization program, building a preservation-grade archive, implementing provenance documentation, or establishing an ongoing support strategy, CHESA can help you move forward with clarity.
Design and implementation of broadcast and live capture environments for institutions running public programming, lectures, and exhibitions.
Cloud, hybrid, and managed archive solutions for preservation-grade storage, public access, and researcher delivery.
Strategic guidance across preservation strategy, digitization planning, provenance frameworks, and institutional technology governance.
Collection documentation, preservation requirement mapping, and phased roadmaps that respect institutional governance and donor commitments.
Expert integration of digitization, MAM, archive, and public access systems across preservation and exhibition workflows.
Design, deployment, and management of Apple-based digitization, editorial, and curatorial environments inside institutional facilities.
Proactive and reactive support designed to keep preservation systems running across institutional budget cycles and staff transitions.
CHESA can plan a phased LTO migration strategy, including the LTO-10 backward-compatibility break, so collections remain readable across format generations.
CHESA can implement provenance tracking, C2PA-aligned credentialing, and immutable audit trails that meet scholarly and emerging regulatory standards.
CHESA can design access systems that serve researchers and the public while keeping preservation masters protected and unaltered.
CHESA can integrate DAM, MAM, and archive systems so metadata flows across the institutional stack and collections are findable across departments.
CHESA can audit your digitization workflow, identify the bottlenecks, and design throughput improvements that accelerate the queue without compromising standards.
CHESA operates at the intersection of media preservation and enterprise IT, with the standards fluency cultural institutions require.
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At CHESA, we dont bring a pre-packaged answer in search of a question. Our primary mission is to first understand your unique challenges and needs, and then architect the optimal solutions tailored to you.
