The document summarizes Archives Canada Digital Preservation Service (ACDPS), a new hosted digital preservation solution operated by Artefactual Systems Inc. ACDPS will allow participating Canadian institutions to preserve digital collections using open-source Archivematica and AtoM tools, with secure storage in geographically remote Canadian data centers. It offers three service tiers - Tier 1 provides the full Archivematica suite and storage, while Tiers 2 and 3 offer reduced services and storage capacities at lower annual costs.

1. Archives Canada Digital Preservation
Service
ACDPS
Artefactual Systems Inc.
New Westminster, BC, Canada

2. What is
ACDPS● Established 2016
● Participating institutions will be able to preserve digital
collections using open-source, standards-compliant
Archivematica and AtoM tools
● A hosted solution - secure storage and geo-remote
backup will be provided by a Canadian-based storage
option

3. ACDPS
benefits● Availability of services in both French and English
● Fully Canadian-based and operated DPS solution
compliant with Canadian law.
● Access to professional specialists with expert knowledge
about the creation and management of DPSs

4. ACDPS
benefits● Economies of scale by pooling and leveraging financial,
technical and human resources, surpassing what
institutions are capable of allocating individually
● A critical threshold of functionality and reliability, active
more quickly than if individual institutions embarked upon
their own unique DPS projects

5. Administration
● Governed through Canadian Council of Archives (CCA)
○ Advisory committee to the CCA - make
recommendations and provide direction
● Archivematica and AtoM software hosting services will be
provided in partnership with Artefactual Systems Inc.
● 3 levels of service

6. Levels of service - Tier
1 ● Archivematica + AtoM
● 2 TB replicated AIP storage in 2 separate geographically remote data centres
stored in Canada
● Technical support as defined in SLA
● Software upgrades within 90 days of release
● 2 90-minute online training sessions
● 9 hours of individualized follow-up training and support
● $11,900 per year, additional storage $950 per TB per year

7. TIER 1 WORKFLOW
OVH storage - Montreal
Azure storage -
Toronto
SFTP server
Storage
Service
Archivematica
OVH secure
storage
Azure secure
storage
Data
AtoM site
(DIPs only)

8. Levels of service - Tier 2
● 1 hosted Archivematica instance
● 1 TB replicated AIP storage in 2 separate geographically
remote data centres stored in Canada
● Technical support as defined in SLA
● Software upgrades within 90 days of release
● 1 90-minute online training sessions
●6 hours of individualized follow-up training and support

9. TIER 2 WORKFLOW
OVH storage - Montreal
Azure storage - Toronto
SFTP server
Storage
Service
Archivematica
OVH secure
storage
Azure secure
storage
Data

10. Levels of service - Tier 3
● Storage purchased in 100-GB increments
● Replicated digital storage consisting of at least 2 copies of the objects in 2
separate geographically remote data centres in Canada
● Storage provided in a way that will facilitate transition to Tier 1 or 2 services
● Technical support as defined in the SLA
● 1 30-minute online training session
*no fixity checking, format ID, normalization, preservation metadata, AIP
generation or ability to make objects available online

11. TIER 3 WORKFLOW
OVH storage - Montreal
Azure storage - Toronto
SFTP server
OVH secure
storage
Azure secure
storage
Data

12. Levels of service - costs
Tier 1 - $11,900 / year
Tier 2 - $9,950 / year
Tier 3 - $120 / GB / year

13. What is Archivematica?
Web- and standards-based open-source
application which allows your institution to
preserve long-term access to trustworthy,
authentic and reliable digital content.
-- Archivematica website, Oct 13 2016
https://www.archivematica.org/

14. OAIS
model

15. OAIS
model

16. Micro-services architecture

17. Micro-services architecture

18. Storage service
Stand alone web
application that handles
moving content in and out
of Archivematica

19. Technical
stack

20. External tools
AtoM
BagIt
Bulk_extractor
ClamAV
Django
ElasticSearch
ExifTool
FITS
Gearman
Imagemagick
Inkscape
JHOVE
md5deep
MediaInfo
Python-lxml
Seigfried
Sleuthkit
Tesseract
Ubuntu Linux
UUID
Unar

21. Demo!