Please consider joining the Infrastructure Working group in hosting a presentation and discussion of AXF with Brian Campanotti, Chief Technical Officer, Front Porch Digital. 

For background on AXF, see Brian's slides from his recent presentation at the Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections meeting (Slides) http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/documents/storage13/BrianCampanotti_Archive-eXchange-Format.pdf (Page on storage meeting) http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/storage13.html 

Date: November 26th at 2PM EST

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Call-in number:  866-469-3239
Participant access code:  21408589

Brian's notes on AXF: 
Recent application specific advancements in the area of long term data storage have been made that specifically target the demanding area of long-term asset storage and preservation while ensuring universal accessibility for valuable file-based assets.  This presentation will give a detailed technical overview of the emerging Archive eXchange Format (AXF) standard for long term tape and disk-based content storage, preservation and transport.  The Archive eXchange Format (AXF) is an open format that supports interoperability among disparate content storage systems and ensures the content's long-term availability no matter how storage or file system technologies evolve. AXF is a device and storage technology agnostic Object Store technology which supports interoperability among discrete storage systems irrespective of the operating and file systems used and also future-proofs digital storage by abstracting the underlying technology so that content remains available no matter how these technologies evolve.  With its innovative "file system per object" approach, AXF ensures long-term accessibility to content and file collections via open tools while overcoming many of the limitations in other storage formats/technologies such as TAR and LTFS.  AXF is currently being used in dozens of preservation activities in the media and entertainment industry and also as a reliable object-based open transport mechanism for cloud applications servicing large scale, cloud-centric media services today.

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