Richard MARCIANO Chien-Yi HOU School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Sustainable Archives & Leveraging Technologies Group (SALT) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill BPE 2010, Phoenix, Arizona DCAPE: An Archivist Driven Archival Preservation Service

Integrated digital preservation service – OAIS-compliant – ISO/DIS “Space data and information transfer systems - Audit and certification of trustworthy digital repositories” – Runs on top of distributed and federated storage spaces, “in the cloud” Developed by archivists Scalable, customizable, versatile (“one size does not fit all”) Web-based dashboard / console Funded by NHPRC What Is DCAPE? Distributed and Federated framework Virtual Loading Dock Virtual Loading Dock V1 V2 V3 Preservation Area Preservation Area P1 P2 P3 SIP AIP DIP

30+ people across 9 entities with 2 staff members at UNC/SILS Cultural Institutions: Getty Research Institute, Smithsonian Institution Archives Comp. Sci. / Cyberinfrastructure: West Virginia University State Archives (6): California, Kansas, Michigan, Kentucky, North Carolina, New York State Library: North Carolina University Archives: Tufts, UNC Chapel Hill Information & Library Schools: School of Information and Library Science (UNC/SILS), School of Library and Information Studies (UW Madison/SLIS) DCAPE Partners

The trusted digital repository infrastructure will be assembled from state-of-the-art rule-based data management systems, commodity storage systems, and sustainable preservation services. The software infrastructure will automate many of the administrative tasks associated with the management of archival repositories. – Tasks will include: authentication, replication, migration, obsolete file management, preservation metadata management, deduplication, virus checks, etc. DCAPE Goals

DCAPE Capabilities iRODS Virtual Loading Dock Virtual Loading Dock V1 V2 V3 Preservation Area Preservation Area P1 P2 P3 SIP AIP DIP , 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 25,

DCAPE Interface Give users the flexibility to apply different policies to different collections

DCAPE Interface Show file processing status and reflect errors

DCAPE Interface Show actions happened to the files

More than a storage service or environment More than a reference tool DCAPE will provide the capability for all archival repositories to fulfill their responsibility to preserve electronic records DCAPE is More…

Develop requested policies Gather feedbacks from DCAPE user community Develop a business model for sustainability Next Steps

Thank you!

What do you think of the approach presented here? How would this approach work in your office /agency / repository? What types of customization / services would you need? What challenges do you face (Scale? Cost? Resources?) Thoughts on “cloud services”? Discussion Points