Hello,
If you are looking to be follow the OAIS model, y
ou can
save money if you
do some of the digital preservation yourself by
consider
ing
open-source
software
paired
along
with a storage service
(
like Amazon Glacier or Arkivum, as suggested below
)
. I suggest
Artefactual
In the UK there is a company called Arkivum who have a good reputation.
Their work comes out of EU funded research projects.
http://arkivum.com
James Stevenson
Director
Cultural Heritage Digitisation Ltd
mob:07562 894001
email: photoroun...@gmail.com
www.culturalheritagedigitisation.co.uk
Behalf Of Matt
Wheeler
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 1:33 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: [MCN-L] data archiving
Good evening. In trying to come up with a long-term preservation plan for
digital image master files, we've spoken to reps at a few digital repositories
whic
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> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] data archiving (Matt Wheeler)
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The base _costs_ for online storage through Amazon s3 is ~$370/year. Plus
there are costs for pushing data into and out of the archive, another
copying in Amazon Glacier, plus developing the archival software so
$1200-$2000/year isn’t too bad but can be expensive for smaller
organisations.
You cou
Hi Matt:
What kind of preservation services are you looking for? Backup, regular
migration, integrity audits? Others here can speak to their own methods and
what the best practices are nowadays, but if you're just trying to have an
offsite backup with some redundancy, you might look into Amazon's
Good evening. In trying to come up with a long-term preservation plan for
digital image master files, we've spoken to reps at a few digital
repositories which offer professional services, but at a higher per-TB
annual storage cost than our small museum can afford (anywhere from
$1200-$2000/TB/year)
