Kaitlyn Jarnagin, Author at Permanent.org

March 2025 Product Updates

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:24:43 +0000

What We’re Working On March wraps up the first quarter of the year, and our team has been working on a number of improvements that will hopefully make a big difference in our members’ ability to connect with others through the preservation work they’re doing on Permanent. We know that you preserve your legacy or a legacy that’s important to you on Permanent in the hopes that someone – whether that be your loved ones or your great-great-great grandchild – will find meaning in your stories. We are dedicated to improving the sharing and collaboration experience on Permanent so you can focus on capturing and telling your stories. Share with others without a Permanent account ...

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February 2025 Product Updates

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:44:13 +0000

What We’re Working On Each quarter, our engineers spend the first two weeks prioritizing “potholes” – updates, improvements, and bug fixes that might slip through the cracks with all the other projects they’re working on. This includes updating other open-source software and libraries that Permanent depends on and improvements that help to create a better code environment for our engineers. Our engineering team worked on some of those improvements in January and has now shifted gears to our larger projects. It might seem like there are fewer visible changes this month on Permanent, but that’s only because there’s a lot of behind-the-scenes work happening! Read on for some projects we’re focused on and a few ...

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January 2025 Product Updates

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:07:15 +0000

Happy New Year to the Permanent.org community! The Permanent team is ready to get to work on a number of exciting projects this year. Don’t forget to check out our Member Improvement List for smaller bugs and improvements, but read on for the major projects we’re working on this quarter. What We’re Working On Share with others without a Permanent account (beta): We’ve heard your feedback, and we’re excited to share that we are working on a way for members to share materials with loved ones who might not want to sign up for a Permanent account. This quarter, we will be working on adding basic functionality to create an unlisted share link that members ...

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December 2024 Product Updates

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:04:22 +0000

What We’re Working On Wow, what a year it has been for us at Permanent! We have been working on a number of projects, and have managed to wrap up many of them. Read below for an update on what we’re working on and what we’ve accomplished lately. New files uploaded are processed by Archivematica: Our back-end engineer, Liam, has been very busy this year working to integrate Archivematica as our preservation processing system in the back end. As of this month, when you upload a file on Permanent and view it in your archive, you’re seeing an access copy that was generated by Archivematica! It likely doesn’t look any different to our users, but ...

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November 2024 Product Updates

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:16:52 +0000

What We’re Working On As we begin wrapping up the year, the Permanent team is working diligently to close out some major projects that have been ongoing this year. Continue Archivematica Integration Work: This quarter, our back-end engineer, Liam, is working on displaying Archivematica-generated access copies of your files in your archive. This is a major milestone for this project! While you will likely not see any difference, new files displayed on Permanent will have been processed using Archivematica. Release Onboarding UI on Web: While the team is almost finished with implementing the changes to the user interface of archive creation on the web, we are making some important changes to how we release new ...

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September 2024 Product Updates

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 13:46:46 +0000

What We’re Working On At Permanent, we work on a quarterly cadence on several big projects. September wraps up the third quarter of the year, and our team has been working on a number of important projects that we hope to wrap up this month. Below are some highlights about the progress we’ve made this quarter on these projects (check out July’s Product Updates blog post for more information about these projects). Continue Archivematica Integration Work: The Permanent application has previously used multiple sizes of thumbnails across the platform. Archivematica only generates one size. The engineering team decided which size to generate, and added the new thumbnail fields to the appropriate database tables. Staff Admin ...

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Product Updates – July 2024

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:04:34 +0000

At Permanent, our mission is to preserve and provide access to the rich and varied stories of all people for the educational benefit of the future. We aim to provide you with the tools you need to preserve your legacy. We are constantly working on improving our platform to provide you with a better experience and more functionality to accomplish your goals. To keep you informed about new features and any requests you may have submitted to us, we have created two resources: our Product Roadmap and our Member Improvements List. Our updated Product Roadmap outlines major projects that the Permanent team is working on and their approximate completion dates. We try to keep this ...

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Tips for Preserving Your Physical Materials

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 15:24:39 +0000

Even if you preserve your digital materials on Permanent.org, there’s still something undeniably special about physical archives. Whether it’s a collection of family photographs, historical documents, or cherished memorabilia, these tangible pieces of history hold unique significance and should not be discarded. However, ensuring their longevity requires proper care and preservation techniques. By following a few simple tips, you can safeguard your physical materials and pass them on to future generations in the best condition possible. Handling and Preparing Your Materials It’s crucial to understand how to handle and prepare your materials properly before you even decide where and how to store them. These simple precautions can make a world of difference in preserving your ...

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Resources for Organizing and Digitizing Your Materials

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 15:47:44 +0000

Getting started with organizing and digitizing your materials can be a challenge. Do you feel overwhelmed by pulling all your materials together and organizing them? Do you have lots of photos in scrapbooks, documents in folders, home videos on VHS tapes, or other media that you don’t even have a player for? What equipment do you need to digitize your materials? What settings are best for different media types? We’ve compiled some resources for organizing and digitizing your own materials to help you get started. It’s hard to find comprehensive resources for organizing and digitizing your materials at home. We’ve done the research for you so you can focus on the important work of organizing ...

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Staff Spotlight: Han Pham

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:21:11 +0000

We’re taking a moment to shine a spotlight on Han Pham, our Member Journey Coordinator. This post is co-written by Kaitlyn Jarnagin, our Member Success Manager, and Han. Kaitlyn Jarnagin: I am excited to introduce our new Member Journey Coordinator, Han Pham. Over the past year, the Permanent team has been working on improving new member onboarding and user experience. We discovered that although new members are interested in Permanent.org and eager to sign up, they sometimes have a hard time getting started with building their archive. We created the Member Journey Coordinator role to provide additional support for our new members and those facing unique challenges in their projects on Permanent. We hope to ...

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Five Things We’ve Learned About Legacy Planning

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:40:56 +0000

A vital part of Permanent.org’s original manifesto and long term plan includes creating a way for members to determine how their digital legacy on Permanent.org will be managed beyond their lifetime. In 2022, we began planning how to best implement a legacy planning feature by researching best practices, creating a workable prototype, and having members of our community and our partners provide feedback about the prototype and about legacy planning in general. Over the three months that we surveyed our members and partners about the legacy planning prototype, we received feedback from 40 people. Here are five takeaways we learned from our members about legacy planning and how we’re using that feedback to inform the ...

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Love (Meta)Data with Permanent.org

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:52:07 +0000

Every year during the week of Valentine’s Day, universities, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, corporations and individuals join together to celebrate Love Data Week, an international celebration of data. At Permanent, we’re celebrating Love Data Week by sharing with you our new and upcoming changes to metadata features on Permanent.org. A preserved file without description and context isn’t truly preserved, so Permanent.org provides basic metadata fields as well as extended metadata options to ensure that anyone can use metadata to capture their most cherished stories and memories. We value hearing from our members so we can make a platform that meets diverse needs and adheres to the changing standards and best practices of preservation. Recently, we ...

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Archive in the Moment with the Share to Permanent Mobile Feature

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 17:09:37 +0000

It can be a challenge to find the time to preserve the files that make up your digital legacy. Now, ensuring that those memories are preserved only takes a few extra taps. We are excited to announce the Share to Permanent feature on the Permanent mobile apps, which helps you actively preserve important files with ease as you create or receive them. The Share to Permanent feature adds the Permanent app to the share menu on your mobile device. This allows you to export photos and files to Permanent from your email, text message, or any location on your mobile device, without opening the Permanent app. With Share to Permanent, you don’t have to save ...

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Help Us Design Our New Legacy Planning Feature

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 17:52:05 +0000

Note: Thank you to all of our members who tried out our Legacy Planning prototype! We appreciate your feedback. We are no longer accepting feedback on the prototype, as Legacy Planning is now available in the Permanent.org web and mobile apps. To learn more, check out our support articles about Legacy Planning here. If you have any feedback about the Legacy Planning feature, please email us at support@permanent.org. We’d love to hear from you! At Permanent, we believe that everyone leaves a legacy that deserves to be preserved. This year, the Permanent team has been working hard to design our new Legacy Planning feature. This feature will allow you to determine when, how, and with ...

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There’s More in Store for Our Members

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 15:26:19 +0000

We are excited to announce the release of our Permanent.org Product Roadmap – an outline of our development plans to make Permanent.org a more robust and easy to use platform for anyone to preserve their digital legacy. The Permanent.org Product Roadmap is published in our GitHub repository. The roadmap sketches out an estimated timeline for releasing new features and major updates to the Permanent.org application. We created this Product Roadmap to keep our members better informed about what we’re working on and build excitement around upcoming improvements and features. The Experience Team and Engineering Team collaborated on writing the roadmap so that it reflects major user experience improvements, members’ feedback and experiences, and the design ...

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Preserve Your Holiday or Event on the Go with the Permanent Mobile Apps

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 17:08:36 +0000

With the launch of our new iOS and Android mobile apps, it’s easier than ever to preserve your memories from a special vacation, a holiday, a birthday, an anniversary, or a family reunion. We created the Permanent mobile apps because we know that you’re already using your mobile device to capture special moments and memories. We wanted to make it even easier for you to preserve those photos and videos from your summer vacation, your grandchild’s birthday party, your Memorial Day gathering, or your family reunion on your phone and on the go.

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