David Rosenthal
Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:31:39 -0700
Birgit Plietzsch wrote:
We are in the process of writing an IT storage strategy for the University of St Andrews. The storage strategy is to cover a range of different needs covering a variety of ICT services that we provide. I have been asked to provide input into this strategy to reflect the needs of digital preservation. Do any of your organisations have an IT storage strategy that includes digital preservation that you could point me to; or are you aware of any organisations that do?
You may find the record of the Library of Congress' Storage Architecture workshops useful - they are at: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/events/other_meetings/storage07/ http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/events/other_meetings/storage09/ Another of these workshops is scheduled for this fall (er - autumn). I discussed the fundamental problems of storage for digital preservation in my iPRES2008 paper: http://www.bl.uk/ipres2008/presentations_day2/43_Rosenthal.pdf which was, at long last, recently published in IJDC V1N5. I am working on considerably expanded and updated version of this paper which I hope will appear shortly in a more widely read forum. Look for an announcement on my blog: http://blog.dshr.org/ The latter part of my keynote at the recent JCDL discusses probable future disruptions in the storage market: http://blog.dshr.org/2010/06/jcdl-2010-keynote.html Power is a big part of the cost of storage. Neil Grindley is organizing a panel on Green Preservation at iPRES2010: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp/ipres2010/schedule.html David.