That would be a great question to follow Thorny's presentation on Tuesday; I suspect he can speak with authority on both approaches. On 02/20/2013 10:54 AM, Schmidt, Lisa (lschmidt) wrote: > At the Michigan State University Archives, we are wrestling with the question of where to store digital objects/AIPs: within our Fedora repository, or externally. > > What are the pros and cons of each approach? > > We have external storage available on an IX Systems storage device, and have been planning to use it for archival storage of AIPs with pointers in the Fedora repository; it would be synched to a second IX storage device that would function as our dark archive. We want to do our due diligence, however, to ensure that this is the right approach. > > Thank you, > Lisa > ____________________________________________________ > > Lisa M. Schmidt > Electronic Records Archivist > University Archives& Historical Collections > 888 Wilson Road > Room 101 , Conrad Hall > Michigan State University > East Lansing, MI 48824 > > [log in to unmask] > 1-517-884-6441 > > > ############################ > > To unsubscribe from the NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE list: > write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > or click the following link: > http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/scripts/wa-DIGITAL.exe?SUBED1=NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE&A=1 ############################ To unsubscribe from the NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/scripts/wa-DIGITAL.exe?SUBED1=NDSA-INFRASTRUCTURE&A=1