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API Summary in Preservica 6.3
In this post I'll give you a summary of what APIs we have in Preservica 6.3, and what new features you might be interested in. If you've been using Preservica for a while and just want to know what changed, you can look for the relevant paragraph at the end of each section, and for more details, you can look at the release notes from the three versions (6.2.1, 6.2.2 and 6.3). If you're new to the Preservica APIs then you can use the whole article as a reference.
Using the PAR API to create Custom Migrations
Since the release of v6, Preservation Actions within Preservica have been defined and controlled using a PAR (Preservation Action Registries) data model. To facilitate this, Preservica’s registry also exposes a PAR API to allow a full range of CRUD operations on this data. This API also makes it possible to write new migration actions using Preservica’s existing toolset, for example, to introduce re-scaling to your image/video migrations, or to get different output formats altogether. In this article, we will introduce the key concepts in this data model, explain how Preservica uses and interpret them, and introduce the API calls required to create your own custom actions. We will do this by a worked example, using ImageMagick to create a custom “re-size migration” for images.