Company
KEEP SOLUTIONS is an academic spin-off of the University of Minho that offers a wide range of products and services to support the creation and maintenance of digital archives, museums and digital libraries. Its services and products consist of information technology consulting, digital preservation consulting, information analysis, data transformation and migration, information systems analysis and design, digital repositories maintenance and support (e.g. DSpace, EPrints, Fedora Commons, RODA, DigitArq), and electronic publication solutions design.
The close connection of KEEP SOLUTIONS to the University of Minho enables a direct contact with the most recent lines of research. As a spin-off of the University of Minho the adaptation of research developed in academia to the market needs forms part of its mission.
Being born from an R&D platform, KEEP SOLUTIONS remains active in the production of scientific knowledge. It has a considerable number of publications and it is often represented at scientific events.
KEEP offers a wide variety of solutions for digital archiving, digital preservation, and document workflow.
Some solutions already installed and in production in several institutions are:
* DigitArq - Archival management software;
* Safe Office - Remote storage solution with interesting characteristics such as automatic metadata extraction, content indexing (for PDF files), search engine (metadata and content), hardware independent;
* Digital repositories - Installation and management of DSpace based repositories
* Service provider engines - Development of search services based on metadata aggregation;
* Migration services and systems integration;
KEEP SOLUTIONS started in 2008 but its promoters have been publishing in the area of digital preservation for the past 6 years. The company currently has 10 employees and several national-wide clients, including the Directorate-General of Portuguese Archives and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.
Here is list of repositories under KEEP SOLUTIONS supervision and maintenance:
Institutional repositories:
* Digital repository of the Business and Labour Sciences Institute
- https://repositorio-iul.iscte.pt
* Digital repository of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança
- http://bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt
* Digital repository of the Coimbra University Hospitals
- http://rihuc.huc.min-saude.pt
* Digital repository of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria
- http://iconline.ipleiria.pt
* Digital repository of the Aberta University
- http://repositorioaberto.univ-ab.pt
* Digital repository of the University of the Azores
- http://repositorio.uac.pt
* Digital repository of the Technical University of Lisbon
- http://www.repository.utl.pt
* Digital repository of the Science Institute of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- http://arca.igc.gulbenkian.pt
* Digital repository of the Beira Interior University
- http://ubithesis.ubi.pt
* Digital repository of the Algarve University
- http://sapientia.ualg.pt
* Digital repository of the Prof. Fernando Fonseca Hospital
- http://repositorio.hff.min-saude.pt
* Digital repository of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco
- http://repositorio.ipcb.pt
* Digital repository of the Institute of Applied Psychology
- http://repositorio.ispa.pt
* Digital repository of the National Laboratory of Energy and Geology
- http://repositorio.lneg.pt
National archives:
* Digital archive of the Portuguese National Archives
- http://digitarq.dgarq.gov.pt
Regional archives:
* Digital archive of Portuguese Centre of Photography
- http://www.cpf.pt
* Digital archive of Aveiro Regional Archive
- http://adavr.dgarq.gov.pt
* Digital archive of Beja Regional Archive
- http://adbja.dgarq.gov.pt
* Digital archive of Bragança Regional Archive
- http://adbgc.dgarq.gov.pt
* Digital archive of Castelo Branco Regional Archive
- http://adctb.dgarq.gov.pt
* Digital archive of Évora Regional Archive
- http://adevr.dgarq.gov.pt
* Digital archive of Faro Regional Archive
- http://adfaro.algarvedigital.pt
* Digital archive of Guarda Regional Archive
- http://www.adguarda.pt
* Digital archive of Leiria Regional Archive
- http://www.adleiria.pt
* Digital archive of Lisbon Regional Archive
- http://www.adlisboa.org
* Digital archive of Portalegre Regional Archive
- http://adptg.dgarq.gov.pt
* Digital archive of Porto Regional Archive
- http://www.adporto.pt
* Digital archive of Santarém Regional Archive
- http://adstr.dgarq.gov.pt
* Digital archive of Setúbal Regional Archive
- http://adstb.dgarq.gov.pt
* Digital archive of Viana do Castelo Regional Archive
- http://advct.dgarq.gov.pt
* Digital archive of Vila Real Regional Archive
- http://www.advrl.org.pt
* Digital archive of Viseu Regional Archive
- http://www.ad-viseu.com
Other digital archives:
* Constância Municipal Government
- http://arquivo.cm-constancia.pt/pesquisa
* Grandola Municipal Government
- http://www.cm-grandola.pt
* Presidential Museum
- http://www.museu.presidencia.pt
KEEP SOLUTIONS is also actively working on integration projects at the national-level with the forthcoming OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), APENet (Archives Portal Europe) and Europeana .

