I think you probably need to come up with a long term plan with real
institutional commitment. Storing files and making sure they are backed
up is all well and good, but that is only one part of a long term
digital preservation project. How are you protecting against bit rot?
what about formats that become obsolete? etc.
We are planning to outsource our longterm digital preservation because
we do not have the staff to maintain it.
Edward
Edward Iglesias wrote:
As I was trying to figure out what to do with half a terabyte of
archival TIFFS it occurred to me that perhaps someone else had this
problem. We are starting to produce massive amounts of digital
objects (videos, archival TIFFS, audio interviews). Up until now we
have been dealing with ways to display them to the public. Now we are
starting to look at "dark archives" like OCLC's digital archive
product. I would welcome any suggestions from those of you who have
dealt with this on an archival level. It's one thing to stick the
stuff up on a server, but then what? Our CIO suggested storage
appliances like this one
http://www.drobo.com/products/index.php
but I am wary of the proprietary RAID system.
Thanks in advance,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Edward Iglesias
Systems Librarian
Central Connecticut State University
