Archive-It vs RODA
Archive-It
archive-it.orgRODA
roda-community.orgSide by side
| Figure | Archive-It | RODA |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Archiving Software | 7.9 (#6) | 8.0 (#5) |
| Integrations | Archive-It offers APIs and access integrations, including the Partner API, CDX/C API, OpenSearch, and DuraCloud Archive-It Sync. | RODA exposes its functionality through a REST API and describes integrations via filesystem packaging, relational database extraction with DBPTK, APIs, or drop folders. |
| Preservation | Archive-It stores web archive data in WARC format and maintains at least two verified copies in separate Internet Archive data centers. | Repository managers can manage representation information and risks, and run preservation actions such as format conversions, checksum verification, and virus checks. |
| Purpose | Archive-It is a curator-controlled service that crawls, hosts, and provides access to web content, including video and social media. | RODA is a long-term digital repository for ingesting, managing, and providing access to digital content, with functions covering the main OAIS reference model units. |
| Support | Accounts include access to tutorials, documentation, training, technical assistance, and support from Archive-It web archivists and engineers. | Community support is available through GitHub Discussions and issues; professional support services include helpdesk, SLAs, security patches, and monitoring. |
Plans
In their own words
Archive-It
Archive-It has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
RODA
RODA is a long-term digital repository for ingesting, managing, preserving and providing access to digital content. Its functions cover the main units of the OAIS reference model. Ingest workflows validate submission packages, scan for viruses, identify formats and extract technical metadata; they can also migrate files to more preservable formats. Users can search and browse a catalogue using descriptive metadata and text extracted from documents. Repository managers can manage representation information and risks, define retention and disposal policies, and run preservation actions including format conversion, checksum verification and virus checks. RODA records PREMIS metadata for object actions, monitors integrity and logs human and software interactions. It supports OAIS, METS, EAD, Dublin Core, PREMIS and E-ARK Information Package specifications, and exposes functionality through a REST API. Integration options include filesystem packaging, relational database extraction with DBPTK, APIs and drop folders. The site describes its services as scalable across multiple servers and suitable for organizations with millions of digital objects. Community Edition is free at free and is intended for mid-sized organizations; commercial plugins, integrations and professional support are excluded.