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Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections

September 9-10 2019

Mumford Room, James Madison Building

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. This meeting is by invitation only.

Background Reading (PDF)

Common Terms for Attendees (PDF)

Agenda

Day 1 – Monday September 9, 2019

8:30 a.m. Registration and coffee
9:00 a.m. Opening / Welcome
9:10 a.m. Technology Overview: Part 1
  • Carl Watts, LC - Storage Architecture (PDF)
  • Scott Rife, LC - NAVCC Storage Architecture (PDF)
  • Robert Fontana, IBM Research - Industry Overview (PDF)
10:00 a.m. Break
10:10 a.m. Technology Overview: Part 2
  • Henry Newman, Seagate - Industry Trends (PDF)
  • Jon Trantham, Seagate - Disk Trends (PDF)
10:30 a.m. Group Discussion and Feedback
11:00 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. Technical Presentations
  • Scott Rife and Carl Watts, LC - Issues in Tape Industry (PDF)
  • Robert Fontana, IBM Research - Tape in the Cloud (PDF)
  • Sharmila Bhatia, NARA - Blockchain (PDF)
Group Discussion and Feedback
12:15 p.m. Lunch time Activity: Predictions for the Future
1:15 p.m. Commercial Storage Services
  • David Friend, Wasabi (PDF)
  • Frank Paterra, Amazon - Amazon Snowball (PDF)
  • Matthew Klusas, Amazon - AWS Supply Chain (no slides available)
  • Glenn Heinle, Keeper Tech - Scalable Storage/Ceph (PDF)
1:45 p.m. Community Storage Providers
  • Linda Tadic, Digital Bedrock (PDF)
  • Hugues Cazeaux and Pierre Yves-Burgi, DLCM - DLCM Project (PDF)
  • Jonah Edwards, Internet Archive (PDF)
2:15 p.m. Break
2:30 p.m. Group Discussion and Feedback
2:45 p.m. Community Presentations: Part 1
  • Leslie Johnston, NARA - NARA ERA 2.0 (PDF)
  • Mark Cooper, LC - LC Integrity Checking Project (PDF)
  • Jeanne Behnke, NASA Goddard - NASA EOSDIS (PDF)
3:15 p.m. Community Presentations: Part 2
  • Julian Morley, Stanford - Cloud Economics (PDF)
  • Greg Cooper, LC - Microfilm to Digital (no slides available)
3:45 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. Group Discussion and Feedback
4:15 p.m. Community Presentations – Storage Plans and Challenges
  • Buzz Hays, Google - Fixity in the Cloud (PDF)
  • Tab Butler, MLB Network (PDF)
  • Ben Fino-Radin, SDI, and Michelle Lee, Protocol Labs - Small Data Industries (PDF)
5:00 p.m. Group Discussion and Feedback
5:15 p.m. Close-Out Day 1

Day 2 – Tuesday September 10, 2019

8:30 a.m. Registration and coffee
9:00 a.m. Review Day 1
9:05 a.m. Alternative Media and the Future
  • Karin Strauss, Microsoft Research, and Luis Ceze, Univ. of Washington - DNA Research (PDF)
  • Anne Fischer, DARPA - Molecular Informatics (PDF)
  • Devin Leake & Hyunjun Park, Catalog - DNA storage (PDF)
  • Rob Hummel, Group 47 - DOTS (PDF)
  • Nova Spivack, Arch Mission Foundation, and Bruce Ha, Stamper Technology - Nanofiche (PDF)
9:50 a.m. Break
10:05 a.m. Data Movement
  • Lindy Blackburn, Harvard - Event Horizon Telescope Data Management (PDF)
  • Grace Thomas, LC - Web Archiving (PDF)
Group Discussion and Feedback
10:00 a.m. Predictions Summaries
11:30 Close-Out Day 2
Noon End

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