DPLAfest, April 15, 2016 Chip German, Program Director, APTrust and Senior Director, Content Stewardship, at the University of Virginia Library APTrust Web Site: aptrust.org

Openness is not just about enabling current use. It is also about ensuring future use.

Sustaining Members: Columbia University Indiana University Georgetown University Johns Hopkins University North Carolina State University Pennsylvania State University Syracuse University University of Chicago University of Cincinnati University of Connecticut University of Maryland University of Miami University of Michigan University of North Carolina University of Notre Dame University of Virginia Virginia Tech

Quick description of APTrust: Provides simple, collaboratively designed and built preservation environment (bit-level with fixity checking every 90 days) for the digital scholarly and cultural record (NOW) Will provide collaboratively developed services for that content (FUTURE), which may include: choice of preservation assurance levels/cost plans access format migration emulation Currently uses Amazon Web Services (as back-end platform only)

for metadata and events Three content copies in East Coast data center (three separate availability zones) S3 service (preservation)

Three content copies in West Coast data center (three separate availability zones) + Fedora copy

Money ●Sustaining Members pay $20,000 per year in dues ○ Engage in governance, strategic direction-setting, development, etc. ○ Get allocation of 10 TB of content (with replication, total of 60 TB) ●University of Virginia provides $380,000 per year toward staffing costs ●Institution wishes to deposit more than 10 TB of content? ○ Pass-through of incremental costs in 5 TB blocks of content ■ $2,750 per year ●Approximately $600,000 cash reserve ●Serves as DPN ingest/replicating node (full cost-recovery from DPN) Current metrics (as of April 14) ●53,344 content objects from 6 institutions in production environment ●16.4 TB of content, 2.9 million PREMIS events ●At least 5 more institutions with content in current testing ●Current storage environment is 16.4 TB x 6 or 98.4 total TB

Future ●Much more volume in deposits ●Develop collaborations for additional services ●Develop sophisticated reporting for depositors ●Services for smaller cultural heritage organizations, libraries, museums; new categories of APTrust members Challenges ●Drive costs downward to encourage preservation ■ Technical architecture enables interchangeable back-end platforms ●Balance between ■ importance of Trusted Digital Repository certification ■ cost and frequency of TDR audit

Content Value Pyramid APTrust Use Cases

CharacteristicAPTrustDPN Time FrameYear-to-Year20 years Diversification Virginia & Oregon data centers; future technical diversity (planned) At least three dispersed node data centers; multiple node-specific technologies Content Disposition Controlled by depositing institution Provides possibility for DPN to “brighten” content in future