Notes from Sun Pasig - Weds morning session

Intro from Art Pasquinelli:

• Libraries and IT departments will move to the side in Digital Archiving and Content will be at the centre
• There is a problem with 'Long Tail Data' - we don't know what we want to keep
• The cost of power to keep the disks spinning is a hot issue
• How do you transfer a Petabyte?
• There is an increasing amount of discussion in companies around how to build 100 year archives
• Pharmachem industries will push the linking of research data and papers.

Mike Keller

• Federating large repositories is starting to happen
• Lots of people are talking about storage in the cloud but are worried about security and Service Levels (or lack of)
• Discovery is a huge problem and current metadata standards (marc, METS) do not solve it
• Audit is an issue that more people are becoming aware of - can we prove that the stuff is there and will continue to be there? Should we be publishing our audits?

Thorny Staples - Duraspace

• Fedora scalability - Sun have just tested a Fedora instance with 150million objects and found that ingest performance was flat over that volume as was access performance
• Plan to make Fedora more modular and attract new developers to the Fedora community
• Improving Fedora docs
• Duracloud - adds integrity checking and other archiving services to the basic cloud storage.
  
• They are talking to a number of vendors of cloud storage to put Duraspace on top of their clouds
• Opportunity for the DLS to be a 'cloud' for Duraspace

Islandora

• Very impressive automated workflow for book digitisation including conversion from TIFF to JP2K, OCR, TEI (significant terms, people, orgs etc) extraction and an editor for correcting OCR
• Virtual Research Environment including auto DRM
• iPhone app for data collection - uses user id to present the correct data collection interface to the user
• FeSL better rights management than XACML in Fedora

Biodiversity Heritage Library

• Part of Natural History Musem
  
• Similar Archiving Architecture model to DLS. Fedora for metadata access, storage abstracted through Duracloud
• Building a large datacentre off J16 fo M6 on old airfield.
• 500 year business plan
• Keen to collaborate with other long-term organisations
  

EPrints

• 10 years old
• Implemented OAI-ORE and migrated an entire archive from EPrints to Fedora and vice versa
• Impressive demonstration showed links to a citation service so you could see the citations of articles in the archive
• Offer support to enterprises on a commercial model

iRods

• Policy-based federated data archiving
• Very impressive but I suspect that deciding what your policies are and designing the workflows to implement the policies would be hard (i.e. It might take years)