[Pasig-discuss] Digital repository storage benchmarking

[Jeanne Kramer-Smyth]

What would folks think of all of this amazing information being collected
in a shared document somewhere?

Jeanne

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Katherine Skinner <katherine at educopia.org>
wrote:

> 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 <(404)%20783-2534>
>
>
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