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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