1. NCSU Libraries TRLN Digital Preservation Seminar NCSU

2. NCSU Libraries 2 TRAC Assessment Focused on institutional repository, rather than image collections Planned assessment would aim to formulate policies for preservation Findings –Access and infrastructure are more developed, policy needs to catch up Areas of need for formulating policy –Standardizing definition of enduring value –Establishing and enforcing policy on long-term access commitment –Guidelines on following digital preservation standards

3. NCSU Libraries 3 Current Preservation Projects Digitization for preservation purposes or Digital Preservation? Kannapolis NDIIPP Reformatting of Metcalf documents Exploratory video projects--NASA videos, question of file format for preservation vs. access Other collections and publishing projects with preservation implications

4. NCSU Libraries 4 Technical Infrastructure Special Collections –Sun Thumper, 12TB (used), 18TB usable –RAID 5, backup to tape NDIIPP –ATA BEAST storage, 7TB (used), 13TB usable –Mirrored RAID 5, backup to tape LOCKSS servers –2x 1TB Iron Mountain servers (dual core, 2GB) Responsibilities included in 1FTE server/hardware administrator Security by UNIX file permissions, firewalls allow white list of clients. Some automated file verification (for NDIIPP) Funding from general operations budget Looking towards duplication across sites--Centennial / Hill for disaster recovery and redundancy