1.
ArchivesDirect Overview:
Standards-Based Preservation with
Hosted Archivematica
Sarah Romkey, Artefactual Systems
Heather Greer Klein, DuraSpace
September 19, 2018

2.
Agenda
1. What is ArchivesDirect? What is Archivematica? What is
DuraCloud?
2. ArchivesDirect and you
3. Workflow walk through
4. The world of DuraSpace hosted services
5. Questions and Answers

3.
What is ArchivesDirect?
● ArchivesDirect is a hosted, managed version of
Archivematica using DuraCloud as back-end storage.
● Launched April 2015
● DuraSpace managed service
● Support, training, and consulting from Artefactual Systems
● Standards-based digital preservation packages in secure
long-term storage

4.
What is Archivematica?
● Archivematica is a web- and standards-based, open-source
application which allows your institution to preserve
long-term access to trustworthy, authentic and reliable
digital content.
● You use Archivematica to:
○ Create OAIS-alligned Archival Information Packages (AIPs)
○ Perform digital preservation actions such as virus scanning, file
identification, characterization, validation, and normalization, while
recording the results in a standardized way
○ Create Dissemination Information Packages (DIPs) to populate access
systems, including ArchivesSpace, AtoM and CONTENTdm.
● Archivematica is supported and maintained by Artefactual
Systems, with a large community of contributors

5.
What is DuraCloud?
● DuraCloud is an open source, hosted preservation storage
service that makes it easy to control where and how your
organization preserves content in the cloud. DuraCloud
enables your institution to store content with expert cloud
storage providers while adding lightweight features that
enable digital preservation, data access, and data sharing.

6.
ArchivesDirect and you
● Quick start-up
● All hosted/web-based
● Open standards
● Complete control of your content
● Content-agnostic
● Open source community and software
● No vendor/content lock-in
● Configurable to meet your
needs/processes/workflows/content

7.
ArchivesDirect and you
Front-end (Archivematica):
● Configurable OAIS-based workflows
● Preservation micro-services
○ Many are configurable based on file format
information
● Normalization
● Standards-compliant (PREMIS, METS, BagIt)

8.
ArchivesDirect and you
Back-end (DuraCloud):
● Replicated storage (two locations)
● Integrity checking services
● Download at any time

9.
ArchivesDirect and you
Pricing:
● Digital Preservation Assessment: $4,500
○ term: 3-month pilot
○ 1 ArchivesDirect instance
○ 250MB of DuraCloud storage
○ training, support, consulting
● Standard: $9999
○ term: annual
○ 1 ArchivesDirect instance
○ 1TB of DuraCloud storage (extra storage: $825/TB/yr)
○ training, support, consulting
Custom quotes available on request.

10.
Workflow walk-through
Upload your content to a hosted “transfers” directory, which
contains material for preservation within directories

11.
Workflow walk-through
Decide on the right workflow: standard, DSpace, forensic
image, BagIt (zipped and unzipped)

12.
Workflow walk-through
Content makes it way through Transfer micro-services

13.
Workflow walk-through
Optionally, content can be sent to backlog for future
processing.

14.
Workflow walk-through
Content in backlog can be viewed/analysed/arranged.

15.
Workflow walk-through
Preservation micro-services continue in Ingest (including
normalization)

16.
Workflow walk-through
Success! AIP is stored, DIP is uploaded and/or stored.

17.
Workflow walk-through
Stored AIPs can be viewed/searched through Archival
Storage.

18.
Workflow walk-through
Preconfigure micro-services so that content is processed
automatically.

19.
Workflow walk-through
Other possible workflows:
● Pre-determine preservation, access and service files
● Include descriptive and rights metadata
● Manage datasets and accruals, relate preserved content and
version archival packages using the AIC concept
● View normalization reports and results in your browser
● Set your own preservation policies using the FPR
● Check media-specific policies using MediaConch
● DIP upload to ArchivesSpace, AtoM, CONTENTdm

20.
Other DuraSpace Hosted Services
● DuraCloud: Preservation Storage
○ Immediate access or TRAC-certified dark archive option (Chronopolis)
○ Integrates for preservation storage from DSpace, Fedora,
Archivematica, Archive-It
○ One-time or synchronized storage transfer, with interfaces for novice
or advanced users
● DSpaceDirect: Simple Hosted Institutional Repository
○ Very streamlined, hosted DSpace
○ Quickly get a repository up and running
○ Easy to migrate to another system later
○ Need something more customized? We can refer you!

21.
Thank you! What are your
questions?
Sarah Romkey, info@artefactual.com
Heather Greer Klein, hklein@duraspace.org
duraspace.org/archivesdirect