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TRLN Digital Preservation Seminar
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TRAC Assessment
• Focused on institutional repository, rather than image collections
• Planned assessment would aim to formulate policies for preservation
• Findings– Access and infrastructure are more developed, policy
needs to catch up
• Areas of need for formulating policy– Standardizing definition of enduring value – Establishing and enforcing policy on long-term access
commitment– Guidelines on following digital preservation standards
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Current Preservation Projects
• Digitization for preservation purposes or Digital Preservation?
• Kannapolis• NDIIPP• Reformatting of Metcalf documents• Exploratory video projects--NASA videos,
question of file format for preservation vs. access
• Other collections and publishing projects with preservation implications
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Technical Infrastructure
• Special Collections– Sun Thumper, 12TB (used), 18TB usable – RAID 5, backup to tape
• NDIIPP– ATA BEAST storage, 7TB (used), 13TB usable– Mirrored RAID 5, backup to tape
• LOCKSS servers – 2x 1TB Iron Mountain servers (dual core, 2GB)
• Responsibilities included in 1FTE server/hardware administrator• Security by UNIX file permissions, firewalls allow white list of clients.
Some automated file verification (for NDIIPP)• Funding from general operations budget• Looking towards duplication across sites--Centennial / Hill for
disaster recovery and redundancy