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Bryan and Cory, Thank you for your insights. My colleague Ed Busch and I will be participating on the call next Tuesday, and this would be a good question to bring up at that time as well. 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 On 2/20/13 2:00 PM, "Cory Snavely" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I'd second all that stuff Bryan is saying, and I'd also draw the >parallel between cloud storage and Fedora storage (or any "internal" >storage) in that they all require somewhat the same level of trust >investment as to the integrity of the data; that is, you're not >verifying the integrity yourself. Like I said, though, Thorny will >probably have a perspective on that. > >On 02/20/2013 01:51 PM, Bryan Beecher wrote: >> At ICPSR we've wrestled with this question over the past 3-4 years. >>Here >> is my take. >> >> The pro for storing objects outside of a specific repository technology >> (e.g., like a filesystem) is that it makes it easy to bring file >>management >> tools to bear on problems, and to inject content into many disparate >> storage architectures. For example, we can use simple tools like md5sum >> and rsync to check fixity and to move content, respectively. And we can >> move content from filesystem-type storage to other filesystems (we have >>a >> copy at MATRIX @ MSU, for example), clouds (like DuraCloud or AWS S3 >> directly), or specialized storage platforms (like the SAFE Archive >>operated >> by Data-PASS). >> >> The con for storing objects outside of something like Fedora is that it >> forces one to ensure that the proper preservation metadata exist, and >>are >> stored in some reasonable fashion so that they can be accessed easily >>(say, >> by fixity checkers) and are durable across changes in tech and policy. >>If >> one is using special-purpose preservation technology like Fedora, my >>sense >> is that one gets this as part of the solution. >> >> -- bryan >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Schmidt, Lisa >>(lschmidt)<[log in to unmask] >>> 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-I >>>NFRASTRUCTURE&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-IN >>FRASTRUCTURE&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-INF >RASTRUCTURE&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