Hi All: This is a query that I think is valuable for our larger digital preservation community, so please reply to the whole list.

 

A few years back we commissioned a new shared drive to be the staging area for content, where processing and metadata creation happens prior to ingest into our Digital Collections (Fedora/Hyrax) system. We original expected it to be about 5-10TBs of fluid space, with things coming in being processed, ingested and local copies disposed freeing up space. Unfortunately it has ballooned to 30TBs+. Some of that comes from a pause we had had on ingest leading up to the Hyrax upgrade, and being without a metadata librarian at the time, and part of it has come from a significant amount of av digitization that we had the funding to do, but not the human resources to push it through the process post-digitization.

 

So the series of questions I have been tasked with is to find out:

• How do more mature digital libraries manage temporary storage for processing?
• Do they also have a mismatch between their ambitions and their capacity?
• If not, what processes have they developed to keep them in sync?
• What prioritization metrics do you use?
• Are these adaptable processes for other institutions?

 

Please let me know your thoughts – Thanks – Dan

 

Daniel W. Noonan

Associate Professor

Digital Preservation Librarian

University Libraries | Digital Programs

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