Advantage Archives LLC is a

digital archiving A document management system (DMS) is usually a computerized system used to store, share, track and manage files or documents. Some systems include history tracking where a log of the various versions created and modified by different users is r ...

service based in

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Cedar Rapids () is the second-largest city in Iowa, United States and is the county seat of Linn County, Iowa, Linn County. The city lies on both banks of the Cedar River (Iowa River), Cedar River, north of Iowa City, Iowa, Iowa City and north ...

, United States. Established in 2018, it digitizes microform, newspapers, books and documents. The results are stored in a community history archive, which is freely accessible. The company works with over five hundred libraries and newspaper publishers in the country, using

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to achieve an expected preservation threshold of five hundred years. The company was co-founded by Chris Donohue and Jeffrey Kiley. Donohue is its

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and Kiley its chief operating officer. Its office is at 1025 33rd Avenue SW in Cedar Rapids. The company is a division of Advantage Preservation, itself a division of Advantage Companies. Advantage Companies established a partnership with the State Historical Society of Iowa in 2017 to digitize over twelve million pages of newspapers, the earliest being from the 1830s, around fifteen years prior to statehood.{{Cite web , last=Munson , first=Kyle , title=Saving 12 million pages of Iowa newspaper history is hard. Seeing it all online may be harder. , url=https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/columnists/kyle-munson/2017/02/17/saving-12-million-pages-iowa-newspaper-history-hard-seeing-all-online-may-harder/97978942/ , access-date=2022-07-22 , website=The Des Moines Register , language=en-US

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Online archives of the United States Companies based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Digital preservation Mass digitization Internet properties established in 2018 2018 establishments in Iowa