Features
Archive Members
You can add members to any Permanent archive to enable collaboration among multiple account holders. Adding a member provides role-managed access to all of the records and workspaces in a Permanent Archive. Each Permanent Archive is owned by a single ...
Archive Profiles
Your Archive Profile is where you can describe the person, organization, group, or family that your archive is about. Here, you can change the the name of the archive, add a biography, birth date and location, and list important dates, or milestones, ...
Public Archives
Your Public Archive is a gallery of your materials that is publicly available for anyone on the internet to view. Upload, organize, describe, and publish your records and then share your Public Archive URL with friends and family. Adding, removing, ...
Folder Thumbnails and File Type Icons in Public Archive
Folders in your Permanent.org Public Archive feature thumbnail previews of one of the files inside the folder. Files and folders in your Public Archive also include icons that indicate the file type. This article documents what each of those icons ...
Multiple Archives
When you create an account, we automatically create a default Archive in your name but you have the ability to create as many Permanent Archives as you want and manage them all from one account. You can create a Permanent Archive for another person, ...
Roles for Collaboration and Sharing
Both sharing with archives and collaborating with members allows users to control accessibility to records and workspaces in an archive via Roles. Roles are predetermined sets of permissions that determine the limits of how accounts and archives can ...
Archive and Records Action Glossary
There are a number of actions that an account can take on records and archives in Permanent.org. These include: Create Uploading a file Creating a new folder Read Navigating into a folder Reading metadata for a specific folder Reading metadata for a ...
File Types That We Accept and Support
Permanent.org will accept and store all file formats uploaded to our system by our members. We like to say "if it's made of bits, we'll take it." However, we do have a set of "supported" file formats for each category of file (photo, video, ...