Information Heritage

With unparalleled expertise in protecting invaluable information and optimizing user access, EMC is helping lead the global information heritage movement—preserving national treasures and making them available to worldwide audiences. Here are a few ways EMC is involved:

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

EMC designed and built the infrastructure to support the Kennedy Library's effort to digitize, index, and archive its massive information repository and make it accessible to the public online. Our software, EMC Centera content-addressed storage systems, and services are helping to preserve more than 8.4 million pages of President Kennedy’s personal, congressional, and presidential papers, photographs, and audio recordings—plus another 40 million pages from the Kennedy administration and other figures of the era.

Duchess Anna Amalia Library

After a fire destroyed thousands of priceless Faust first editions and Goethe documents, as well as thousands of other books, maps, and atlases produced in the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries, the library embarked on a mission to archive and preserve its assets digitally. EMC responded by quickly donating two EMC Centera systems and 36 terabytes of storage to help preserve Germany’s cultural heritage and make this material available to people everywhere.

Museum of African American History

In 2007, EMC began a five-year partnership with the Museum of African American History, in Boston, to help preserve the museum’s unique collection and make it available to students and researchers around the world. EMC is contributing equipment, software, and services to the museum, which is dedicated to preserving, conserving, and accurately interpreting the contributions of African Americans in New England from the colonial period through the nineteenth century.

Search for Jikji Campaign

Volume II of Jikji Simche Yojeol, a two-part anthology of great Buddhist priest Zen teachings, is the oldest known text printed using movable metal type. Produced in Korea in 1377, it predates by 78 years the first book (a bible) to come off the famed Gutenberg printing press. Jikji Volume I has never been found, and the hunt is on. EMC sponsors Korea’s "Search for Jikji Campaign," which educates students on the Jikji’s historical and cultural significance.