Distributed Infrastructure

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As modern commercial developments in storage infrastructure mature and become increasingly available through popular open-source …

As modern commercial developments in storage infrastructure mature and become increasingly available through popular open-source …

Cultural heritage organizations (CHO) commonly use technical approaches that are rooted in the 1990s and early 2000s. This was a time …

Updating digital preservation infrastructure for increased sustainability.

Digital preservation systems and practices are rooted in research and development efforts from the late 1990s and early 2000s when the cultural heritage sector started to tackle these challenges in isolation. Since then, the commercial sector has sought to solve similar challenges, using different technical strategies such as software defined storage and function-as-a-service. While commercial sector solutions are not necessarily created with long-term preservation in mind, they are well aligned with the digital preservation use case. The cultural heritage sector can benefit from adapting these modern approaches to increase sustainability and leverage technological advancements widely in use across Fortune 500 companies.

The MetaArchive Cooperative is exploring new technologies to engage in our distributed digital preservation system to adapt to the …