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Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections

September 23-24, 2013
Library of Congress, Washington, DC

The DSA meeting brings together technical and industry experts; LC IT and subject matter experts; government specialists with an interest in preservation; decision-makers from a wide range of organizations with digital preservation requirements; and recognized authorities and practitioners of digital preservation.

The meeting is full and registration is now closed. 

Background Reading for Attendees (67 Kb PDF)

Draft Agenda

DAY 1 – Monday September 23, 2013

8:30-9:00	Registration, coffee and refreshments
9:00 – 9:15	Opening / Welcome
9:15 – 9:50	Technology Overview-1 Henry Newman - Instrumental, Inc., "Standards and Digital Archives" (39 Kb PDF) Carl Watts - Library of Congress, "LC Storage Environment" (848 Kb PDF) Scott Rife - Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation, "Lessons Learned: Upgrading for Increased Throughput" (267 Kb PDF)
9:50-10:05	Break
10:05-10:45	Technology Overview-2 Dave Anderson -Seagate, "SMR Standardization" (342 Kb PDF) Gary Decad - IBM, "The Impact of Areal Density and Millions of Square Inches of Produced Memory on Petabyte Shipments for TAPE, NAND Flash, and HDD Storage Class" (1345 Kb PDF)
10:45-11:00	Break
11:00-12:00	Community Presentations – Part 1 Chris Mitchell - Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Digital Archiving and Storage at LANL" (2.8 MB PDF) Elliot Metsger - Data Conservancy, "Data Conservancy Lineage: A component of digital curation and preservation" (502 Kb PDF) Andy Maltz - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, "Motion Picture Industry Perspective" (284 Kb PDF)
12:00-1:00	Lunch time presentation Trevor Owens - Library of Congress, "NDSA Storage Survey and NDSA Levels of Preservation" (201 Kb PDF)
1:00-2:15	Storage In the Cloud: Recent Updates Henry Newman - Instrumental, Inc., "Cloud Challenges" (24 Kb PDF) David Rosenthal - LOCKSS, "Cloud Services – Caveat Emptor" (blog) Dave Sagstetter - MNHS (no slides) Marcelo Olascoaga - GSA, "Cloud Services" (365 Kb PDF) Jeff Barr - Amazon Web Services, "Cloud Services" (539 Kb PDF) Michael Thuman - Tessella, "Cloud Services – Preservica" (1497 Kb) Jane Mandelbaum - Library of Congress, "NIST cloud initiatives" (193 Kb PDF)
2:15-2:30	Break
2:30-4:00	Standards and the Storage Community Larry Lannom - Corporation for National Research Initiatives, "Identifiers, Types, Archives and the Research Data Alliance" (343 Kb PDA) Nettice Lagace - NISO, "Standards and the Storage Community" (1492 Kb PDF) Brian Campanotti - Front Porch Digital (AXF), "Transporting, Storing and Preserving the World's Most Valuable File Based Assets Now and Into the Future" (390 Kb PDF) Dave Anderson - Seagate (no slides)
4:15-5:00	Community Presentations – Part 2 Group Discussion and Feedback Fenella France - Library of Congress, "Storage Medium Symposium" (945 Kb PDF) Eric Breitung - Library of Congress, "Rapid Non-destructive Identification of Degraded Magnetic Tape" (459 Kb PDF) Josh Sternfeld - National Endowment for the Humanities, "Summary of 'Green' Panel from Digital Preservation 2013" (368 Kb PDF)
5:00	Close-out Day 1

Day 2, Tuesday September 24, 2013

8:30 – 9:00	Registration, coffee and refreshments
9:00 – 9:05	Review Day 1
9:05-10:20	Future of Storage Management Options - Open Source Software Tom Creighton - Family Search, "Digital Preservation System (DPS) Architecture" (1070 Kb PDF Chris Macgown - Piston Cloud Computing, "OpenStack: Storage, Object, Block, and Beyond" (166 Kb PDF) Sage Weil - inktank, "Digital Preservation with Open Source CEPH" (503 Kb PDF) Michael Letschin - Nexenta, "Open Source Storage: Does Use Case Matter?" (3288 Kb PDF) Group Discussion and Feedback
10:20 – 10:45	Morning Break
10:45 – 11:30	Storagement Management Updates - Developments in Media Greg Pine - Cuneiform Technologies, "Preservation Matters"(1040 Kb PDF) Dan Rosen - Group47/DOTS, "A Better Solution for Preserving Mission Critical Digital Data"(5837 Kb PDF) Ken Wood - Hitachi, "Developments in Media: The Revival of Optical Storage"(26109 Kb PDF) Group Discussion and Feedback
11:30 – 12:30	Wrap-up/Meeting Summary

Questions for Speakers

Topic 1: Cloud Storage

1. 1.1 What is the role of standards or standards bodies in determining specifications that would be useful for identifying integrity and reliability for long-term data storage in cloud services?
2. 1.2 What do you see as the role of cloud services in current and future options for inter-operability and portability in storage architectures?
3. 1.3 What do you think would be useful for the users and developers of long-term storage applications to do to promote integrity and reliability in cloud services?

Topic 2: Standards

1. 2.1 What kinds of standards or standards bodies do you think would be useful for large archives to learn from or use?
2. 2.2 Who should be developing standards for large archives?
   a. Vendors
   b. Open groups
   c. Standards bodies such as ANSI
   d. Others or combination
3. 2.3 What are the standards or options that would be useful or influential for large archives to address? Why?
   a. Format (e.g. AXF, MXF)
   b. User software interface (e.g., POSIX, REST/SOAP)
   c. Hardware interfaces (e.g., FC/IB/Ethernet/FCOE)I
   d. Data Integrity (T10-DIF, AXF)

Topic 3: Open Source Software

1. 3.1 What do you see as the role of open source software in the current and future options for inter-operability and portability in storage architectures?
2. 3.2 What do you think large archive users and planners should be doing if they are interested in expanding the use of open source software for these architectures?
3. 3.3 What interfaces to you think will be used in archival storage in 1, 5, 10 years? a. REST/SOAP (AWS, object)
   b. POSIX (NFS, CIFS, file system)
   

Topic 4: Media Developments

1. 4.1 What do you see as the role of developers of new or alternative media in the current and future options for inter-operability and portability in storage architectures?
2. 4.2 What do you think large archive users and planners should be doing if they are interested in expanding the use of new or alternative media for these architectures?
3. 4.3 How do you believe alternative media should be tested for long-term integrity and reliability?

 

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