[Pasig-discuss] Digital repository storage benchmarking

[Katherine Skinner]

I love this thread--thank you for starting it, Tim!

The MetaArchive Cooperative started preserving content with six institutions in 2004; it has grown to encompass more than 60 institutions, including through consortial memberships with several regional consortia (in Barcelona and Ohio) and a library alliance (HBCU).

Our mission is to provide a strong preservation community as well as an affordable preservation solution for distributed digital preservation for a wide variety of memory-oriented organizations. Our members constantly learn from each other as they compare workflows, tools, approaches, and policies.

More details, specific to your questions, Tim:
we are actively preserving 1,200+ collections totaling 85TB of content (and that is slated to almost double in the next year)
content is ingested via bags (BagIt) and can be submitted in a variety of ways
every file is replicated 7 times and stored in 7 secure, geographically distributed locations on infrastructure that includes both physical servers (at some member institutions) and "cloud-based" and VM infrastructures 
content is regularly audited using LOCKSS voting and polling mechanisms 
when needed, content is repaired and metadata describing that event is created
Other details that may be of interest:
pricing is $500/TB for storage fees, plus an annual membership fee of between $3,000-$5,500 depending on the selected category
some members host network infrastructure; others pay a small annual fee ($1000) to waive that responsibility
MetaArchive is entirely run, owned, and controlled by its members--including pricing decisions
Carly Dearborn (Purdue University) is the current Chair of the Steering Committee. If you are interested in learning more, please reach out to me (Katherine at Educopia.org) or Carly (cdearbor at purdue.edu) while the network's facilitator, Sam Meister, is out on paternity leave until early July.




Katherine Skinner, PhD
Executive Director, Educopia Institute
http://educopia.org

Working from Greensboro, NC
katherine at educopia.org | 404 783 2534



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