In operation for nearly two and a half decades, Digitary is a globally trusted online platform used by employers, education providers and government agencies in over 125 countries to verify the authenticity of degrees, transcripts, and other academic records online. Millions of students and graduates around the world use Digitary to access their verified academic records and share them with employers and others each year. Launched in Dublin, Ireland, in 2005, Digitary is now used by over 80 of the worlds top Higher Education Institutions to issue records to their learners.

Digitary Certified Online Records Exchange (Digitary CORE).

“Digitary” was born from “digital” “notary”.

Digital transcripts, degree certificates and other official documents/statements are available to students and graduates of Digitary-enabled education providers.

Some organisations use Digitary to issue Police Clearance/Vetting statements, so that recipients can share them with employers to help streamline the vetting process.

Students and graduates from Digitary-enabled education institutions will receive an email notification once their records have been issued. The email will contain instructions on how they can logon to the Digitary CORE platform.

Learners from Australian and New Zealand Universities access their academic documents through the My eQuals portal rather than through Digitary CORE.

Over 80 of the world’s leading Higher Education institutions use Digitary technology to issue digitally verified degrees, transcripts, and other records to their students and graduates. To date, over two million digital records have been issued to over 1.5 million learners, who have shared them with employers, education providers, and government departments in over 125 countries around the world.

Digitary only works with nationally accredited, legitimate education providers. Once they have signed up with Digitary, education providers issue various types of documents including degree certificates, transcripts through the platform according to their own policy and operational schedule. All records issued to learners are cryptographically signed for authenticity, tamper-evidence, and legal validity in line with EU legislation and ETSI technical standards.

Once issued, Learners receive an email notification that their certified documents are available online, along with login instructions. Learners login to Digitary CORE using the instructions from their education provider, where they get read-only access and share their verified achievements quickly and easily.

Whilst Learners cannot upload or modify their Digitary records in any way, they have full control over who they are shared with, and for how long, in line with GDPR requirements.

There are a variety of sharing methods, the most common is where Learners use Digitary to generate an individual “document share” URL that always points to their protected Digitary profile at Digitary Learner Portal This URL, once accessed by an employer, ensures they are receiving the verified record directly from the Digitary-enabled institution that issued it. Learners who share their records using the Digitary platform cannot upload or modify their records in any way.

For more information, please contact our enquiry lead here.

In order to preserve the integrity of our brand, Digitary only works with nationally accredited, legitimate education providers. So, not just anybody or any institution can issue academic records through the Digitary CORE platform.

Any document accessed through the Digitary CORE URL comes directly from the Digitary-enabled institution who issued it. Learners who share their records using the Digitary platform cannot upload or modify their records in any way.

Furthermore, all records issued to learners through Digitary are cryptographically signed using a key that is only accessible to officials of the education provider in question. This gives the records authenticity, tamper-evidence, and legal validity in line with international legislation and established technical standards.

These signed PDFs can be independently verified by opening them in the latest version of Adobe Reader. Viewed in Adobe Reader, a “blue ribbon” digital signature will appear at the top of the document indicating that is has been digitally signed by the named institution. This also means that the identity of the issuing institution has been independently verified by a trusted third party and that document has not been modified since it was issued.

For organisations who verify large volumes of Digitary records, we provide more advanced verification functionality.

For more information, please contact our enquiry lead here.

This depends on the issuing organisation’s (e.g. education institution) policy. Degree certificates and final transcripts are life-long documents and do not expire. However, some documents, such as status letters, expire after a few months or years. When verifying a record, always ask the Learner to share a Digitary link with you that starts with the URL “https://core.digitary.net” and ensure that you follow the it to ensure a record has neither expired or been revoked by the issuer.

For organisations who verify large volumes of Digitary records, we provide more advanced verification functionality.

For more information, please contact our enquiry lead here.

Yes. Digitary documents comply with relevant security standards in each geographical region, such as XAdES-A and PAdES-LTV from the European Technical Standards Institute.

Digitary also complies with Australian, Chinese and US certification standards. By adhering to these standards, Digitary provides the maximum level of security, legal validity of documents and data.

Digital signatures authenticated through Digitary are produced on FIPS 140-2 Level 3 cryptographic hardware devices, in dedicated, secure cloud infrastructures assigned to our vetted education institutions and organisations.

Not currently.

The most common method of verifying documents involves the Learner generating a secure URL that starts with “https://core.digitary.net.” Documents accessed this way come directly from the Digitary-enabled institution who issued it. Note that learners who share their records using the Digitary platform cannot upload or modify their records in any way.

For organisations who verify large volumes of Digitary records, clicking on individual URLs may not suit and so we provide more advanced verification functionality for these cases.

For more information, please contact our enquiry lead here.

Academic achievements are for life and Digitary takes a long-term view to the security of these records. We use advanced cryptographic functionality, based on open standards supported by ETSI, to ensure that the security of digital records have their cryptographic security periodically “upgraded”, without requiring any manual intervention.

This ensures that records stored in Digitary have up to date cryptographic protection, even decades after they have been issued, in the event that cryptographic algorithms become compromised through advances in code breaking and/or computing.

Yes.

Digitary-issued documents contain Advanced Electronic Signatures (AES), which are regulated by the EU’s eIDAS standards 2016 and are compatible with digital signature standards around the world. These signatures can only be produced by authorised officials of the fully-vetted education institutions that we work with, and require the use of sophisticated cryptographic hardware devices in order to sign documents.

This provides an extremely high level of assurance and legal validity that documents are authentic, tamper evident, and undeniably credible.

The EU eIDAS regulation sets a very high bar for international digital signature legislation.

By complying with the Advanced Electronic Signature requirements of this EU law, our signatures also meet the less stringent requirements of other international laws, including the Australian Electronic Transactions Act,  the US E-SIGN and others.

To verify a learner’s Digitary-enabled documents, the Learner needs to share them with you. The simplest way to do this is to ask the Learner to generate a ‘URL share’ – this is a unique URL that starts with “https://core.digitary.net” and points to the trusted Digitary CORE portal. The URL can be emailed directly to you from the Digitary CORE portal, or the learner can send it to you directly. Always make sure that the URL starts with “https://core.digitary.net”, or, for institutions still using Digitary’s older platform, starts with the URL of the issuing institution.

For organisations that verify large numbers of Digitary records, we offer more sophisticated verification options.

For more information, please contact our enquiry lead here.

Yes. For organisations that verify large numbers of Digitary records, we provide additional verification options.

For more information, please contact our enquiry lead here.

Yes. Digitary has an API for B2B integration and we have completed a number of integrations with our partners.

If you would like to explore this option, please contact our enquiry lead here.

Our customers will tell you that the impact of Digitary technology is positively transformational. Digitary helps institutions in a number of ways:

Issuing – instead of spending weeks printing and posting thousands of transcripts to students and graduates every year, education providers who use Digitary can issue an entire cohort of documents in minutes through an ultra-efficient online process.

Sharing – once records are issued, students and graduates use Digitary’s 100% self-service facility to access and share their records with whoever they want, 24/7, without involving the institution in the process.

Verifying – Better yet, verification is 100% automatic, meaning that employers get immediate verification of academic qualifications with the full consent of the learner, meaning institution staff no longer have to respond to verification enquiries from employers and others.

Admissions – Digitary can also help streamline the admissions process by enabling institutions to receive certified supporting documentation for 100% of international applicants.

To learn more about how we can help your institution, please contact our enquiry lead here.

Digitary can handle any document type.

Our customers have used Digitary to implement a variety of documents including: Degree Certificates, Transcripts, European Diploma Supplements (EDS), the Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR), AHEGS, and various Status/Confirmation Letters.

For more information, please contact our enquiry lead here.

Digitary’s modern, REST APIs allow systems integration with any student information system. For more than two and a half decades, our highly experienced team has implemented Digitary across a wide variety of leading education providers, each with their own student information systems, IT infrastructure, processes and requirements. Our customers use Banner, Oracle (PeopleSoft Campus Solutions), SITS, Callista, StudentOne, and a number of in-house systems.

To find out more about pricing, please please contact our enquiry lead here.

It really depends on your requirements. Setup can range from several hours to several weeks, depending on a number of factors: what documents types you wish to implement (transcript, degree certificate, etc.), what data formats you use, whether or not you wish to charge students for access, and how much systems integration is required to work with Digitary’s APIs.

Our experienced team has rolled out Digitary to institutions of all sizes around the world, from individual projects to highly complex, national-scale rollouts involving thousands of stakeholders. Each and every time, Digitary delivers.

For more information, please contact our enquiry lead here.

Yes, in addition to receiving from Learners who have Digitary-enabled qualifications, legitimate education providers can use Digitary CORE to receive credentials from inbound applicants from a number of destinations:

China – Through our partnership with CHESICC (an agency of the Chinese Ministry of Education), institutions can receive digitally verified transcripts, qualification certificates, GAOKAO, HUIKAO scores from applicants with a Chinese educational history. We provide 100% coverage of Chinese institutions through CHESICC.

fMy eQuals – Through the Digitary / My eQuals bridge, institutions can receive verified degree certificates, transcripts, and other documents from 46 Universities in Australia and New Zealand.

Rest of World – Institutions can receive verified qualifications from 100% of international applicants through our credential evaluation partner, Educational Perspectives, a member of NACES and trusted by hundreds of Universities in the United States and Canada.

Documents are provided in PDF format and, coming in 2019, with standards-compliant structured data for machine readability.

Yes, Digitary has a unique track record and unparalleled experience of executing highly successful rollouts of this nature in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

For more information, please contact our enquiry lead here.

Yes. Digitary documents comply with relevant security standards in each geographical region, such as XAdES-A and PAdES-LTV from the European Technical Standards Institute.

Digitary provides the maximum level of security and legal validity of documents and data by adhering to these standards.

Digital signatures are produced on FIPS 140-2 Level 3 cryptographic hardware devices, which are issued to officials of vetted organisations.

Rather than issuing documents all year round, Digitary enables education institutions to consolidate document production into a few hours or days per year.

After that, learners and graduates can access their documents and share them with third parties around the world, without needing to bother your records department again.

This frees staff from administration to focus on other operations.

Our experienced team has implemented Digitary world-wide through major, complex projects at a wide variety of international leading universities, each with their own Student Information Systems.

We use modern technologies such as web services and XML data standards to allow easy data export from Student Information Systems. In fact, many of our customers have commented that by adopting Digitary they have also benefitted from student data cleansing.

Our experienced team has implemented Digitary world-wide through major, complex projects at a wide variety of international leading universities, each with their own Student Information Systems on time and on budget.

We use modern technologies such as web services and XML data standards to allow easy data export from Student Information Systems. In fact, many of our customers have commented that by adopting Digitary they have also benefitted from student data cleansing.

Generally, institutions can start issuing and receiving academic documents via Digitary in a matter of days. 

If necessary, we will provide APIs to export data from Student Information Systems into Digitary and  generate documentation.

Digitary enables education institutions to use their own brand and communications when authenticating, certifying and issuing academic documents.

To enable education institutions to do this, the data export and document implementation process may take several weeks, depending on the institution.  

Our experienced team has implemented Digitary globally in major, complex, projects at many leading universities, each with their own Student Information Systems, on time and on budget.  We have the know-how, systems and know-how to deploy at scale around the world.

Data on Digitary’s platform is stored securely in the the cloud according to its global point of origin and is governed by the electronic data and privacy laws in each jurisdiction.

Additionally, academic documented shared by learners through Digitary are protected by up to three mechanisms, being:

1. Digitally Singed  (PDF)
2. Hosted  (shared by the learner via a weblink)
3. Notarized/Anchored to the Blockchain