A small archive in the clouds
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A short talk for a panel on Cloud Computing at the New England Archivists meeting at Brown University, Providence, RI, Apr 1-2, 2011. The panel was moderated by Anne Sauer (Tufts) and the other speaker was Bill Donovan (BC).
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- 1. A Small Archive in the Cloud Using inexpensive tools + open source + cloud computing ... to sleep soundly at night Ari Davidow Jewish Women’s Archive Presentation for the New England Archivists Association April 2, 2011
- 8. 10 years+ of audio and video oral histories6TB Data
- 9. Optical Media are not a preservation format Optical Media
- 10. $10k for a RAID server
- 12. What if there is a disaster?
- 13. Pair with others? can we find two other organizations? each has to buy $20k of servers in addition to their own each has to be maintained as professionally (or better) as we maintain ours....
- 14. Cloud Computingto the rescue aws.amazon.com
- 15. Step 1: BackupHow to get there? Jungle Disk – www.jungledisk.com
- 16. Digital Asset Mgmt Phase One
- 18. Admin Entryway to JWA’s WWII online Collection Project, based in Drupal
- 19. Administering a media object in Drupal. You will see similar metadata being gathered in our Fedora implementation
- 20. Control panel for Amazon Web Services
- 21. The first repository: Bella The least functionality that lets us move the digital contents from old cassettes and minidisks into active curatorial management.
- 23. Agile Development Put usable tools in people’s hands quickly Short, iterative programming cycles (usually, 4-6 weeks) Use cards/whiteboard to note requests When you have an acceptable set of cards that can be done in 4-6 weeks, you have your next cycle planned
- 25. Code Delivery Our current “let there be no ambiguity” method: Finished code must be checked into a repository It must be documented in a wiki or other online doc tool We must be able to check out the code, follow installation instructions, and successfully integrate/launch/run the application
- 26. Contents of a typical Oral History
- 28. Editing metadata for typical Oral History in our Fedora Repository
- 29. Phase 2: Islandora Goals: Update Bella Get Drupal content and the parent objects into active management Create a place to put “random” archive assets
- 30. The New JWA Islandora/Drupal Interface in progress
- 35. What next? To find out more about the Jewish Women’s Archive, http://jwa.org If you also have a small archive in need of asset management and preservation, please get in touch with the Duraspace Small Archives Solution Community: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/Small+Archives Ari Davidow is teaching a class in Cloud Computing (some programming experience recommended) for Brandeis’ Rabb Graduate Professional Studies Program, starting May 23, 2011: http://www.brandeis.edu/gps/programscourses/schedule/classes/2011/Summer/all Follow Ari on Twitter: @aridavidow
Editor's Notes
- The Jewish Women’s Archive is unusual in that it is an online-only archive. There are no physical assets.
- It took almost three months just to back up our network servers. But then they were backed up.
- Actual digital asset management at this point was still the tried and true spreadsheet