(Westford, MA) - December 8, 2008 - Numismatic Guaranty Corporation, the world’s leading independent coin certification and grading service, has selected Image Fortress Corporation’s DigitalFortress™ digital archiving service as the platform for NGC’s online coin catalog, the first online photographic catalog of certified and graded collectible coins. DigitalFortress service was selected by NGC (http://www.ngccoin.com) because of DigitalFortress’ unique ability to provide trustworthy archiving of all digital files, which insures files archived within DigitalFortress are unalterable and tamper-proof.
One of the significant innovations introduced by NGC in their online catalog is the application of the DigitalFortress feature that digitally seals and time stamps every archived file, in this case the photographs of all coins being graded by NGC. The DigitalFortress sealing process provides online, one-click authentication of the photographs in NGC’s catalog by third parties who wish to verify the integrity of any viewed or downloaded photograph. By using DigitalFortress, any attempt to alter a copy of a coin photograph downloaded from NGC’s catalog will be immediately detectable. Over one million tamper-proof coin photographs have already been archived by Image Fortress for the NGC catalog.
"Image Fortress’s DigitalFortress service solves a major problem that has emerged in recent years in the collectibles industry – protecting parties that wish to conduct buy/sell transactions over the Internet and via online auction sites from the fraud that can occur when individuals tamper with the digital images of items being displayed over the Internet to make them appear to be what they are not," according to Steve Eichenbaum, CEO, Numismatic Guarantee Corporation. "Our new online catalog, powered by Image Fortress’s unique digital archiving service that insures that all coin photographs are tamper-proof, will enable collectors and dealers to view and download photographs of coins weÕve certified with complete confidence that an NGC-provided coin photograph is authentic just as the coin we certified," according to Eichenbaum.
"We are delighted to be partnering with NGC to provide the leader in coin certification with a trustworthy online repository for their photographs of authenticated and graded coins built upon our DigitalFortress digital archiving service," said Bob Pokress, president and CEO of Image Fortress. "NGC has created the world’s first online catalog of collectible coins where owners, coin dealers, buyers and investors will be able to look up and verify, with 100 percent confidence, the authentication, grading and provenance of a collectible coin at the click of a mouse."
About Image Fortress Corporation
Headquartered in Westford, MA, Image Fortress Corporation (www.imagefortress.com) is a leading provider to government and private organizations of fully automated, online digital archiving service that ensures the secure, long-term preservation and integrity of electronic documents and files. The company’s family of DigitalFortress™ online digital archiving services is compliant with ISO’s Digital Archiving standards and with the National Archives and Records Administration requirements and regulations for Federal government electronic records archiving. .
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