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Yes, anyone who is a member of the list can review all of the email threads at http://list.digitalpreservation.gov If you haven't ever logged in to the email list site before it will want you to create a password to associate with your address, but from there you should be able to browse through all the conversations. Best, Trevor

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From: The NDSA infrastructure working group list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Goethals, Andrea
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 11:32 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE] storage again?

Sounds good to me. Trevor is there a way for us to see archived messages of this email list? If so that might be an easy way for us to see the discussion around a topic.

Andrea

> -----Original Message-----
> From: The NDSA infrastructure working group list [mailto:NDSA- 
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andrew Woods
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 11:24 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE] storage again?
> 
> I was moving towards a similar conclusion myself, Trevor, as your 
> suggestion of having bi-weekly discussion questions on the list. I 
> could see using some of Andrea's proposed topics as an initial queue 
> to discuss through. At the same time, it would likely be useful to be 
> back-filling the discussion-topic queue with other relevant 
> questions/areas on which list-members would like to get community 
> feedback. When the two weeks are up for a discussion, we move to the 
> next (while capturing salient points out to the wiki).
> Opinions?
> 
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Owens, Trevor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Thanks Andrea, looks like there is some interest here. To follow up
> on Andrew's question about modes of moving forward, it seems to me 
> that the email list is our most useful asset for facilitating these 
> kinds of discussions. In this respect, I could imagine some model 
> where there is a bi-weekly discussion question that we put out to the 
> list and let people dig into it to the extent that they are interested.
> >
> > I should also like to make explicit that there is a standing open
> invitation to anyone on the list who wants to comment on these kinds 
> of issues to share those comments as a guest post to the LoC digital 
> preservation blog. With this in mind, anyone who wants to publicly 
> share some discussion piece, or commentary, we could post there and 
> then keep discussion going over the list. The guest blog posts 
> approach has the added benefit in that the ongoing discussion and 
> commentary itself becomes an output from the group.
> >
> > Thrilled to see some back and forth on the list on this.
> >
> > Trevor
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The NDSA infrastructure working group list [mailto:NDSA-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Minor, David
> > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 6:35 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE] storage again?
> >
> > I'd like to participate in such a discussion. With the caveat that I
> can't attend the Tuesday calls, so would appreciate any other 
> mechanisms.
> >
> > David.
> >
> > On Feb 9, 2012, at 2:54 PM, John Spencer wrote:
> >
> >> My part of the world (commercial) could also use resources of this
> type. Are there any plans for having a range of questions that would 
> be applicable to this constituency?
> >>
> >> From reviewing the responses from the member institutions, there 
> >> are
> some parallels but there are more differences (legacy systems, high 
> dependence on data tape, etc.).
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >> John Spencer
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >> www.bmschace.com
> >> office 615.385.1251/ fax 615.385.0153 mobile 615.714.1199
> >>
> >> On Feb 9, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Shawn Rounds wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm new to this group but I like this idea.  Just the sort of 
> >>> exchange of information that I can use.
> >>>
> >>> Shawn
> >>>
> >>> Shawn Rounds
> >>> State Archivist
> >>> Division of Library and Collections Minnesota Historical Society
> >>> 345 Kellogg Boulevard West
> >>> Saint Paul, Minnesota 55102
> >>>
> >>> [log in to unmask]
> >>> 651.259.3265
> >>> www.mnhs.org
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Andrew Woods 
> >>> <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> It looks like a good idea to me, Andrea.
> >>>> What do you think would be a productive way for such "discussions"
> >>>> to play out? The choices occur to me as being: email thread, 
> >>>> wiki, conference call, or likely some combination. Going ahead 
> >>>> and collecting some points of discussion to post on the wiki 
> >>>> seems
> like
> >>>> a reasonable start. You and Mark have already raised:
> >>>> h2. Preservation Policies
> >>>> # number of copies
> >>>> # bit integrity check frequency
> >>>> # storage hierarchy
> >>>> # ...
> >>>> h2. Emerging Storage Technology
> >>>> # data reduction/de-duplication
> >>>> # device encryption
> >>>> # cloud providers
> >>>> # WORM devices
> >>>> # federated clusters
> >>>> # ...
> >>>> h2. Decision Factors
> >>>> # collection size
> >>>> # budget
> >>>> # development resources
> >>>> # ...
> >>>> h2. ...
> >>>>
> >>>> Andrew
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Goethals, Andrea 
> >>>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>>> Dear all,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Apart from other projects we're working on, and as a follow-up 
> >>>>> to our
> >>>> preservation storage survey, I was wondering if there was any 
> >>>> interest in the group in having in-depth discussions about 
> >>>> particular aspects of preservation storage. I'm interested in 
> >>>> both the reasons behind our policies (number of copies to keep, 
> >>>> how
> often
> >>>> to do integrity testing, requirements to include tape, etc.) and 
> >>>> opinions/experience on some of the existing and up-and-coming 
> >>>> features of modern storage systems (data reduction/de-duplication 
> >>>> features, encryption, inclusion of cloud storage, WORM storage, 
> >>>> federated clusters, etc.). I'll understand though if the group
> wants
> >>>> to take a break from storage because we have spent a lot of time
> on it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Andrea
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Andrea Goethals
> >>>>> Digital Preservation and Repository Services Manager Harvard 
> >>>>> Library Office for Information Systems
> [log in to unmask]
> >>>>> (617) 495-3724
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