A Tale of Two Archives: Notes from the Dark Side

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A Tale of Two ArchivesNotes from the Dark Side

• Priscilla Caplan
• Florida Center for Library Automation

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Administrative Context

• FCLA and the State University System of Florida
• Libraries and PALMM partners
• Funding IMLS grant and central funds / future
  cost recovery

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Project Goals

• establish a working digital preservation archive
  for the use of the libraries of the public
  universities of Florida
• identify costs involved with sufficient
  granularity to support reasonable cost-recovery
  pricing
• disseminate tools, procedures and results for the
  widest national

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PREMIS

• Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies
  (OCLC/RLG Working Group)
• Define an implementable set of core preservation
  metadata elements
• Evaluate alternative strategies for implementing
  preservation metadata
• Pilot programs for testing

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Services

• Deposit of representations
• Secure storage and file management
• Preservation services (certain formats only)
• Accounting reporting
• Dissemination withdrawal

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Materials Accepted

• Any file format so long as
• Specified in Agreement
• Donor can authorize deposit, copying and creation
  of derivatives
• Can specify full or bit-level preservation

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Access

• nope

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Preservation Strategies

• Action plans
• Normalization
• Forward migration
• Migration on request
• Hedge your bets

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Dissemination

• Original representation
• Best usable representation
• Other representations by negotiation

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Data Object Model

• Intellectual entity
• Representation
• File
• Bitstream

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Archive Architecture

• DAITSS Java, Linux, MySQL
• TSM tape management
• METS files for SIP and DIP, not AIP

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DAITSS Core Classes
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DAITSS Core Classes
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Contact

• pcaplan_at_ufl.edu
• www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/