Jim Linden, Sean Martin, Richard Masters, and Roderic Parker, The large-scale archival storage of digital objects, Digital Preservation Coalition, Technology Watch Series, February 2005. From the summary: 'This report is intended to be of use to any digital repository that is looking at long-term archival storage issues, especially on a large scale. The British Library has national responsibilities for preserving and providing access to digital materials for the very long term. Many of these materials will be acquired under Legal Deposit legislation. However, the Library’s requirements are not unlike those of many large digital archives, and the case study presented here has wider application. This report describes the issues surrounding storage technology from the perspective of a digital repository. It covers the British Library’s thinking that led to conclusions about the design of a system for the preservation storage of digital objects, and the specific conclusions about the preservation storage architecture to adopt. The planning figure for the storage required was that it would grow to over 100 Terabytes (100 thousand gigabytes, or 100 million megabytes) in 3 years.' (Thanks to digitizationblog.)
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Peter Suber at 3/03/2005 10:45:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
