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TRLN Digital Preservation Seminar

TRLN Digital Preservation Seminar. NCSU. 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

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TRLN Digital Preservation Seminar

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  1. TRLN Digital Preservation Seminar NCSU

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

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