Advanced Features
Extended Metadata Options with Tags
Permanent Tags allow you to add additional description or categories to your files to help tell the story of your materials. Tags are searchable, and you can re-use tags across your archive to quickly find similar materials. But did you know that you ...
Metadata Extraction
When you upload a file to your Permanent.org archive, we use select metadata embedded within the file to populate our Permanent metadata fields. If you are interested in using this feature to populate Permanent metadata fields, the following article ...
Using Dublin Core Metadata in Permanent
A major part of digital preservation and the access of digital materials online is metadata. Metadata about files and archives provides the context of the photograph, document, video, or other file and tells the story behind the file. It also allows ...
Manage Tags
The Manage Tags feature in the Archive Settings allows members of the archive with the correct permissions (learn more about permissions here) to quickly and efficiently manage the tags used in that archive. Search for, edit, and delete tags within ...
Archive Settings
The Archive Settings menu is where you can manage different settings relating to the archive you are currently working in. To navigate to the Archive Settings menu, click the arrow below your archive name on the left side of the screen, then click ...
Publishing to the Internet Archive
About the Internet Archive At Permanent, we want to make it easy for you to share your archives, both privately and publicly. For media you wish to share more widely, we've partnered with the Internet Archive to quickly publish files from Permanent ...
Timeline View
There are two different views for records in your Public archive on Permanent: a grid view and a timeline view. The timeline view creates a timeline of your files based on their date. To create a timeline, log into your Permanent account. Navigate to ...
Etherpad Prototype
Thank you for helping test Permanent.org’s new Etherpad integration! Overview Permanent.org’s Etherpad Prototype uses the web monetization API. This technology uses a browser extension to make micropayments to an online service provider. This allows ...
Facebook Integration
As of April 2021, we have suspended our integration with Facebook. You can find more information about this decision on our blog.
Advanced Features Demo Videos
Public Gallery Demo Video This video demonstrates how to view published materials in your Public Workspace in our Public Gallery on the web. It also demonstrates how to complete a customized Public Profile for your archive. Publish and Timeline View ...