DuraCloud is a platform that allows organizations to store digital content in the cloud while providing preservation services like replication to multiple providers/locations, synchronization with local repositories, and file format transformation. It addresses challenges like implementing consistent preservation support and high data transfer costs. Initial pilots involve backing up content from the NYPL, BHL, and WGBH in the cloud to test services and integration with repositories. The timeline outlines releasing new versions with additional features in 2009-2010 and expanding pilots to more users.
DuraCloud - Open technologies and services for managing durable data in the cloud
1. DuraCloud Open technologies and services for managing durable data in the cloud Michele Kimpton, CBO DuraSpace “ Repositories in the Cloud” Seminar, Feb 2010 [email_address]
3. Implications for our future work more distributed more collaborative more web - oriented more open more interoperable
4. Challenges (from survey 1/22/2010) Preservation support is hard to implement consistently “ Our preservation support is collection based where we have had grants or specific initiatives. There is no system effort.” “ Where it is prioritized as mission critical, it is being done well. It is not being done well where it is not mission critical.” “ We have not invested enough to make it a service of which we are proud…” “ Collection development and storage are more important than computing. “
9. Services in the cloud for durable digital content DuraCloud Platform: Allow organizations to utilize cloud infrastructure easily offering data storage, data replication, preservation support and access services
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22. Thank You For more information: DuraSpace Organization: http://duraspace.org Wiki: http://www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/duracloudpilot/ DuraCloud project page: http://duracloud.org [email_address]
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04/15/09 I would like to thank Andy Powell for inviting me here today to speak to you about DuraCloud which is a new project for manaing durable data in the cloud utilizing public cloud infrastructure. The project is in part sponsored by NDIPP and developed by the duraspace organization
DuraSpace is a non profit whos purpose it to guide the academic community in developing open technologies and solutions for managing durable digital data. DuraSpace was formed in July, as a result of a merger of two non profit ogranizations, DSpace foundation and Fedora Commons. These organizations had very similar purpose, developing OSS for managing and preserving digital data, but were supporting and developing two distguishing software platforms for such purpose. Just over a year ago the 2 organizations began to discuss how they could more effectively work together to support a very similar mission and position their OSS to be complimentary vs. competitive.. Initially the two organizations started working more closely together to build common standards and tools for each software platform they supported. This effort extended to looking out beyond our current software to other technologies our communiteis would need beond the current software we were supporting. Over the course of the year we were successful in bringing our 2 companies, boards and communities together so we could focus on how we could best help our combined communities manage and preserve their digital output, regardless of technology they chose. The current porfolio of solutions supported by DuraSpace are fedora commons, DSpace, Mulgara, and DuraCloud 04/15/09
In order to meet the needs of our community going forward we must produce and support technologies that can be easily distributive, open , web oriented and enable collaboration and end user functionality across institutional boundaries. We are working on our existing technologies to make them interoperable and have common web based interfaces. We are also developing new technologies to take advantage of cost effective web based compute and storage in the cloud- this new project is called DuraCloud. The idea behind DuraCloud it to provide a web based application and technolgy for managing your content with tools and applications relevant to you, in a cloud environment. DuraCloud application sits on top of multiple utility cloud provider networks, and allows you to replicate you content to multiple cloud providers simultaneously. It also allows you to run services on top of your content, once in the cloud such as image serving, video streaming, file transformation to name a few.
04/15/09 Working within todays evironments with current technology these are the hurdles organization in our community face
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