This document summarizes a webinar about DuraCloud, an open-source digital preservation service. It discusses what DuraCloud is and its features like storing content across cloud storage systems. Recent updates in 2018 include new partnerships in Europe and with the Texas Digital Library. Planned improvements involve software updates and new tutorial videos. The webinar encouraged participation in DuraCloud's open source community.

1. DuraCloud in 2018: What’s New?
What’s Next for the Software
& the Service?
Heather Greer Klein
Services Coordinator

2. Today’s Webinar
● What is DuraCloud?
○ Features, subscriptions, integrations
● What’s new in 2018
○ Partners
○ Mozilla Open Leadership Training
● What’s coming next?
○ Roadmap, contributions, videos
● Time for questions

3. What is DuraCloud?
● Fully hosted, easy to use digital preservation service
● Store content in cloud storage systems or national preservation networks
● Store any type of file, any size, any number, and add storage at any time
● Automated duplication across multiple storage systems

4. What makes DuraCloud different?
● Open source - built to support the library and archives community
● Integrations with DSpace, Archivematica, Archive-It
● Tools to simplify and automate file transfers
● Regular automated health checking of all files in storage
● Training and ongoing assistance from DuraSpace staff

5. DuraCloud in Your Workflow
● Long-term content storage with integrity checking
● You get out exactly what you put in -- even the original
directory structure is preserved
● Interface is for staff only

6. Standards-based digital preservation as a service
+
● Customizable preservation workflows based on the
OAIS model
● Micro-services to perform virus scans, file type
validation, metadata extraction, identifier
assignment, etc
● File normalization into preservation formats
● Standard-based metadata (PREMIS, METS)
● All content preserved in DuraCloud
Looking for Standards-Based Preservation Workflows?

7. Hosted institutional repository application
● Fully hosted and supported DSpace repository
● Version upgrades, system administration and maintenance included
● Basic theming and branding (logos, color scheme, etc) included
● All public content indexed by Google, taking advantage of DSpace SEO settings
● Usage statistics available for analysis of page views, downloads
● Automated content backups into DuraCloud
● Can be migrated to a locally-managed DSpace at any time
Looking for a User-Facing Repository?

8. Choosing a Subscription Type
1. What type of cloud storage do you need?
2. How many TB of content will you store?
3. What is your local workflow?

9. Storage Options -- Instant access
● Amazon S3
○ Best for cloud preservation of local copy
● S3 with Glacier as secondary storage
○ Automatic secondary copy in separate storage infrastructure

10. Chronopolis Storage option
● Chronopolis
○ Digital preservation storage network spanning multiple institutions and
geographic regions
○ Focused on long-term digital content preservation
○ System based on active preservation – constant checking of items
○ Most cost-effective option for long-term storage: master copies,
unprocessed collections, etc.

11. Getting Started: Preservation Subscription
● Designed for new programs or small organizations
● Amazon S3, or S3 with Glacier secondary storage (“Plus)
● 1-5 TB of content
● No administrative access -- up to five spaces, 5 users with read/write access
Great for:
● Smaller repositories
● New Archive-It integrations
● Programs just starting up

12. Increased Flexibility: Enterprise Subscription
● Amazon S3, S3 with Glacier secondary storage, and/or Chronopolis
● Up to 19 TB of content
● Administrative access control: create spaces, create users and groups, assign
permissions
Great for:
● Established programs
● Use across departments (can limit access to only certain content spaces)
● Greater control and flexibility

13. 20+ Terabytes: Large Subscription
● Designed for increased support and greater storage savings
● Amazon S3, S3 with Glacier secondary storage, and/or Chronopolis
● 20+ TB of content
● Administrative access control: create spaces, create users and groups, assign
permissions
Great for:
● Large institutions
● Multiple large repositories and collections across departments

14. The DuraCloud Workflow
● Move content from local storage
○ Web interface, Sync Tool, or API
○ Single pass or continuous syncing of content-- from a single file to an entire
directory
● Integrations
○ DSpace
○ Fedora
○ Archive-It
○ Archivematica

15. What’s new in 2018?

16. Mozilla Foundation Open Leadership Training Program
DuraCloud: Beyond the License
● New GitHub repository:
https://github.com/duracloud/dura
cloud
● Fully developed ReadMe
● Opportunities to contribute to the
project with technical and
non-technical work
● Easy to submit suggestions, use
cases, and feedback
https://github.com/MozillaFoundation/mozfest-program-2017/issues/461

17. New DuraCloud Option in Europe
● DuraCloud Europe from 4Science:
● https://www.duracloudeurope.org/
● First member of the DuraCloud
Certified Partner Program
● Facilitates preservation and content
storage services in Europe, complying
with the European Commission General
Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

18. Texas Digital Library DuraCloud@TDL
DuraCloud services just for TDL
members

19. DuraCloud Vault
● Deposit option for DPN
members
● Allows for easy deposit into
DPN nodes
● Bit integrity checking on
ingest
● Reporting as content moves
through DPN network

20. What’s Next?

21. Open Source Community Growth
● Regular contributor meetings
● Contributor-supported user interface usability study
● Define a commiter policy
● Continue to pursue other partnerships
● Establish a process for contributing community use cases and requirements
● Support Digital Preservation Declaration of Shared Values
● Encourage contribution -- you can help!

22. Software Improvements
● Support for multi-part uploads
○ allow large files to be viewed and retrieved in
DuraCloud as a single file, rather than a set of chunks
● Updating DuraCloud media streaming
○ replacing RTMP with HLS, to support HTML 5 viewers

23. New Video Tutorials
● Short videos
covering specific
DuraCloud features
and processes
● Closed-captioning
● Training playlists
organized by role
● Coming Summer
2018

24. How can we help you?
● Sign up for a demo account
● Take a look at the DuraCloud Guide
● Get in touch for a quote or more information:
info@duracloud.org

25. Thank You for Attending!
Questions are Welcome.
Duracloud.org
DuraSpace.org/membership
hklein@duraspace.org