A Tale of Two Archives: Notes from the Dark Side Priscilla Caplan Florida Center for Library Automation How important identifiers and standards are in a distributed environment.
Administrative Context FCLA and the State University System of Florida Libraries and PALMM partners Funding: IMLS grant and central funds / future cost recovery
Project Goals establish a working digital preservation archive for the use of the libraries of the public universities of Florida identify costs involved with sufficient granularity to support reasonable cost-recovery pricing disseminate tools, procedures and results for the widest national
PREMIS Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (OCLC/RLG Working Group) Define an implementable set of core preservation metadata elements Evaluate alternative strategies for implementing preservation metadata Pilot programs for testing
Services Deposit of representations Secure storage and file management Preservation services (certain formats only) Accounting & reporting Dissemination & withdrawal
Any file format so long as: Materials Accepted Any file format so long as: Specified in Agreement Donor can authorize deposit, copying and creation of derivatives Can specify full or bit-level preservation
Access nope
Preservation Strategies Action plans Normalization Forward migration Migration on request Hedge your bets
Dissemination Original representation Best usable representation Other representations by negotiation
Data Object Model Intellectual entity Representation File Bitstream
Archive Architecture DAITSS: Java, Linux, MySQL TSM tape management METS files for SIP and DIP, not AIP
DAITSS Core Classes
DAITSS Core Classes
Contact pcaplan@ufl.edu www.fcla.edu/digitalArchive/