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Jane Goodall Institute Selects MediaValet To Protect And Manage Over 60 Years Of Scientific ResearchVANCOUVER, BC, July 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- MediaValet Inc. (TSX-V: MVP) ("MediaValet" or the "Company"), a leading provider of cloud-native, enterprise, digital asset management and creative operations software, is excited to announce that the Jane Goodall Institute ("JGI") has selected MediaValet to securely archive and manage over sixty years of historic and present-day scientific research and conservation digital assets. The 5-year, 100 TB agreement, provides JGI with the Company's core enterprise DAM platform, Advanced Custom AI, Audio/Visual Intelligence (AVI), and professional services covering implementation, library services, training and support. Dr. Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, & UN Messenger of Peace, considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, and now global conservation icon, has spent the past sixty years advancing understanding of wild chimpanzees as well as helping protect their habitats through community-driven conservation and youth empowerment. Over the decades, Dr. Goodall and her team have amassed thousands of hours of handheld, drone and camera trap video footage, tens of thousands of photos, maps and satellite imagery, and an untold number of handwritten notes, diagrams and sketches. A primary initiative for JGI's digital asset management work in 2021 is to digitize priority material, upload to MediaValet, and apply Advanced Custom AI and AVI to help scientists and storytellers alike sort, process and learn from the extensive collection of research and conservation assets. Once uploaded, MediaValet's industry leading security and redundancy measures will ensure the JGI's archive is protected from misuse and safe from loss at all times. Together, MediaValet and the Jane Goodall Institute are exploring how artificial intelligence, digital asset management and the Cloud can augment and revolutionize scientific research, conservation and storytelling at a global scale. From transcribing handwritten field notes, to identifying specific animal behaviors across decades of video footage, the digitization and extensive meta data enrichment of JGI's assets provides the ability to extend the knowledge to a much wider group of researchers, conservation professionals and storytellers simultaneously increasing the opportunity for scientific advancements and conservation. "From our decades of footage to an extensive archive of handwritten research, the Jane Goodall Institute holds a wealth of knowledge across a variety of media formats and locations," shared Shawn Sweeney, Associate Vice President of Communications & Policy at the Jane Goodall Institute. "Taking the time to digitize this research and improve its discoverability and utility was a critical step to advance the vision and work of Dr. Goodall. We're excited to be working with MediaValet and look forward to leveraging the latest in DAM, Cloud and AI technologies to ensure our past and future research and conservation efforts are not only preserved and discoverable in ways we'd never imagined, but also readily accessible by generatios to come." In addition to scientific research, the Jane Goodall Institute will be using MediaValet to address several other challenges facing the institute, including centralizing marketing and communications content; preserving Dr. Jane Goodall's personal legacy; and enabling effective storytelling across all their distribution channels. "I'm extremely honoured and proud to be entrusted with preserving and extending Jane Goodall's legacy," shared David MacLaren, Founder & CEO of MediaValet. "Dr. Goodall's name is well known in households around the world for her groundbreaking work studying chimpanzees and their habitat. As key advocates for the protection and conservation of the natural world, it's critical to ensure Dr. Goodall's story, and her research, is protected and accessible indefinitely." To see additional images for use, please visit https://medialibrary.mediavalet.com/portals/janegoodallinstitute. About the Jane Goodall Institute Follow Jane Goodall Institute: Blog, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram About MediaValet Inc. Follow MediaValet: Blog, Twitter and LinkedIn For further information, please contact: David MacLaren Babak Pedram Shawn Sweeney "Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release." View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jane-goodall-institute-selects-mediavalet-to-protect-and-manage-over-60-years-of-scientific-research-301342616.html SOURCE MediaValet |