Report on two projects which used Archivematica installed in a Cloud hosted environment: Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries, and ArchivesDirect

1. Report: Archivematica
hosting in the cloud
Sarah Romkey
Systems Archivist, Artefactual Systems
Association of Canadian Archivists, June 2015

2. Introduction
● Archivematica: what is it, and why use it in
the cloud
● Two cloud-hosting projects:
o COPPUL (Council of Prairie and Pacific University
Libraries)
o ArchivesDirect (partnership with DuraCloud)

3. COPPUL: Infrastructure
● Hosting infrastructure provided by
University of British Columbia- EduCloud.
● Members use SFTP client to make digital
material accessible to Archivematica
installation

4. COPPUL: Governance
● Available to consortium members
● Gold, Silver and Bronze levels
● First year participating members:
o 2 Gold (University of Saskatchewan Library; University
of Victoria Library)
o 1 Silver (Vancouver Island University Library)
o 3 Bronze (MacEwan University Library; Mt Royal
University Library; University of Lethbridge Library).

5. ArchivesDirect: Infrastructure
● Service offered by not-for-profit org
DuraSpace.
● Hosts Archivematica instances in DuraCloud
o Amazon S3 and Glacier
● DuraCloud Sync Tool

6. ArchivesDirect: Governance
● Available to any subscriber
● AIPs produced and stored are system-
agnostic- can be removed and stored
elsewhere at any time

7. ArchivesDirect: Pilot Project
● Three month pilot period
● Nine institutions participated in pilot:
o University of Washington; Pepperdine University; The
Huntington Library; University of Texas San Antonio;
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources: State
Archives and State Library; Phillips Academy Andover;
Illinois Wesleyan University; Kansas State University

8. ArchivesDirect: Pilot project
● Technical feasibility results
● Common use cases:
o born-digital
 government and university records, student artwork, e-theses and dissertations
 diverse formats: audiovisual, textual, geospatial, websites, presentations, images,
databases
o digitized
 books, newspapers, images, video from vendors
 pre-made access and preservation copies
o submission documentation & metadata
 permission forms, accession records, pictures of digital media, etc.
 descriptive MD from other systems

9. Feedback and lessons
● Technical: file fetching from DuraCloud
● Ease of use depends on human resources

10. Feedback and lessons
● For future hosting projects:
o What technical, legal or juridical constraints exist
for your potential users?
o Training, consultation, and technical support are
still important requirements