I find that it's much easier to put all your objects within the Fedora
repository if you have the option. If you're storing externally, you loose
the ability to do automatic checksum validation and versioning.
Furthermore, you have to make certain that you maintain integrity between
your external store and the reference within Fedora. To me external
datastreams are a great workaround for when you have no other choice.
Best Regards,
Justin Coyne
Data Curation Experts
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Schmidt, Lisa (lschmidt)
<lschm...@msu.edu>wrote:
> At the Michigan State University Archives, we are wrestling with the
> question of where to store digital objects/AIPs: within our Fedora
> repository (managed), or externally.
>
> What are the issues associated with each approach?
>
> We have external storage available on an IX Systems storage device, and
> have been planning to use it for archival storage of AIPs with pointers in
> the Fedora repository; it would be synched to a second IX storage device
> that would function as our dark archive. We want to do our due diligence,
> however, to ensure that this is the right approach.
>
> Thank you,
> Lisa
>
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