"AI in Government Archiving & Long-Term Digital Preservation: Preserving Trust, Compliance & Access"

January 22, 2026

 

OVERVIEW: Government archivists and records administrators are managing growing Microsoft 365 long-term content, longstanding backlogs, and rising compliance demands. This session shares practical lessons from real government programs on the safe and effective use of human-centric AI to strengthen recordkeeping while preserving trust, oversight, and authenticity.
This presentation offers insight into how human-centric AI can help:
  • Identify and surface long-term records within Microsoft 365 and SharePoint
  • Reduce backlog while maintaining clear human oversight
  • Improve metadata quality and consistency
  • Detect PII and support privacy, FOIA/open-records, and audit requirements
  • Meet accessibility needs through transcription and enhanced description
  • Protect authenticity, provenance, and defensibility as AI enters archival and records workflow
 
This Sponsor Solution Series presentation will be led by Preservica’s Product and Professional Services experts.
 
DURATION: 45-60 Minutes
 
PRESENTER: Mike Davis, Sr. Solutions Architect, Preservica

Mike Davis
 
Mike Davis is a senior solution architect for North America for Preservica. Over his 30+ year career, he has been involved in numerous roles within software organizations. He has helped large and small customers alike in public and private industry bring transformative solutions to a broad array of business challenges. He is based in the Boston area where Preservica maintains its North American headquarters.

Preservica is changing the way organizations around the world protect and future-proof critical long-term digital information. Available in the cloud (SaaS) or on premise, our award-winning active digital preservation software has been designed from the ground-up to tackle the unique challenges of ensuring digital information remains accessible and trustworthy over decades.

It’s a proven solution that's trusted by a growing number of businesses, archives, libraries, museums, and government organizations around the world - including HSBC; The Associated Press; Unilever; Pernod Ricard; the World Bank; Amnesty International; 27 US State Archives including Texas, California, and Massachusetts; Yale University Library; and the European Commission – to name a few.

Click here to download the timestamped transcript (.txt file) of this Presentation  

Please note that a Certificate of Completion is not available for this presentation, as Sponsor Solution Series offerings are not eligible for GARA credit.