The Capsyra Foundation

Digital information that outlives whoever holds it.

The Capsyra Foundation is a non-profit private foundation. It exists to promote and safeguard the long-term preservation, availability, accessibility, integrity and verifiability of digital information — in particular when the original owner, manager, service provider, technology or organisation can no longer ensure its continuity.

Why it exists

Information of societal, cultural, historical, legal or economic value often has to last far longer than the organisation, the supplier or the technology that keeps it. The Foundation protects that information against:

  • loss
  • inaccessibility
  • technological obsolescence
  • discontinued services
  • insolvency
  • the disappearance of the original custodian or provider

It does so by striving for technological independence, interoperability and continuity — across organisations, suppliers, storage technologies and generations.

What it does

Custody and continuity

Taking over, safeguarding and keeping available digital information when its original owner, manager or service provider can no longer ensure its continuity — and acting as custodian of assets for its long-term preservation.

Infrastructure

Developing, managing and maintaining the systems, infrastructure and protocols that keep digital information preserved and accessible over the long term.

Research

Researching methods, technologies and standards for the long-term preservation, integrity and verifiability of digital information.

Standards and best practice

Developing and sharing guidelines, standards and best practices for long-term digital preservation.

Independence and portability

Promoting technological independence, interoperability and the portability of digital information across platforms, technologies and generations.

Cooperation and awareness

Working with organisations, institutions and governments that share these aims, informing the public, and representing the interests of sustainable digital preservation with national, European and international authorities.

OmniCapsule and the Foundation

Capsyra, the company behind OmniCapsule, ties its archives to the Foundation, so that an archive's preservation does not depend on Capsyra continuing to exist.

  1. 1

    Paid once, upfront

    An OmniCapsule is paid for in full when it is created, for its whole retention period. There is no subscription to renew.

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    Part of it goes to the Foundation

    A share of that payment goes directly to the Capsyra Foundation, covering the full retention period from day one.

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    Preserved, whatever happens

    Should Capsyra itself close down, the archive stays both accessible and funded for the full period already paid for.

How it is set up

A private foundation
A private foundation (private stichting) under Belgian law, with its registered seat in the Flemish Region, and a non-profit purpose.
Established for good
Founded for an indefinite period, because the information it exists to protect has to outlast the organisations, suppliers and technologies around it.
Governed and accounted for
Run by its board of directors, which draws up the annual accounts and the next year’s budget every year, with a statutory auditor wherever the law requires one.
Its assets stay with its purpose
Should the Foundation ever be dissolved, its assets must go to a non-profit purpose as close as possible to its own.

Looking for OmniCapsule?

Capsyra builds and operates OmniCapsule, a long-term archive whose integrity can be verified rather than taken on trust.

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