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Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections

March 14-15, 2022

Virtual Meeting

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 March 14, 2022

 
9:00 a.m. Opening / Welcome
9:10 a.m. Technology Overview: Part 1
  • LOC Storage Architecture: Carl Watts (LOC) (PDF) 
  • Industry Trends: Henry Newman (Seagate Federal) (PDF) 
10:00 a.m. Technology Overview: Part 2
  • Industry Trends: Georg Lauhoff (IBM) (PDF)  
  • Fujifilm Object Archive: Chris Kehoe (Fujifilm) (PDF)  
  • Disk Trends: Jon Trantham (Seagate) (PDF)  
  • HDD Storage: Paul Peck (Western Digital) (PDF)
11:00 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. Community Presentations: Part 1
  • Trusted Digital Repository Self-Audit: Mark Phillips (UNT) (PDF)  
  • Fixity in the Cloud: Zef Delgadillo (Google) (PDF)  
  • Internet Archive: Jonah Edwards (Internet Archive) (PDF)  
  • Yale Storage Infrastructure: Euan Cochrane (Yale) (PDF)  
12:15 p.m. Lunch time Activity: Predictions for the Future: 2030, 2040, 2050
1:15 p.m. Community Presentations: Part 2
  • PII/PHI Preservation: Courtney Mumma (TX Dig. Library)
  • Modernizing Infrastructure: Nathan Tallman (Penn State) (PDF)
  • Northside Hip Hop Archive: Mark Campbell (U. Toronto) (PDF)  
  • E-Recordkeeping: Melissa MacGregor (SIFMA) (PDF)  
2:15 p.m. Break
2:30 p.m. Storage Services: Part 1
  • Wasabi: David Friend (Wasabi) (PDF)  
  • PIQL: Yolanda Williams & Tiffany Zheng (Microsoft)  
  • AWS S3: Paul Meighan (Amazon) (PDF)  
  • Snowflake: Jeff Wootton (Snowflake) (PDF)  
3:30 p.m. Storage Services: Part 2
  • ODILO: Macarena Urbina (ODILO) (PDF)
  • Project Silica: Brad Collar (WarnerMedia)
  • Starfish: Jacob Farmer (Starfish) (PDF) 
4:15 p.m. Alternate Media and the Future
  • DNA Research: Karin Strauss (Microsoft Research) (PDF) 
  • CATALOG: David Turek (CATALOG) (PDF)
  • Datacule: Phoebe Kwan (Datacule) (PDF)  
  • Twist Bioscience: Daniel Chadash (Twist Bioscience) (PDF)
  • Preservica: Peter Anderton (Preservica) (PDF)  
5:15 p.m. Close-Out Day 1

Day 2 – Tuesday March 15, 2022

9:00 a.m. Review Day 1
9:05 a.m. Community Presentations: Part 3
  • The HistoryMakers: Courtney Shareef & Dan Johnson (The HistoryMakers) (PDF)  
  • NPR: David Gray & Julie Rogers (NPR) (PDF)
  • NARA: Leslie Johnston (NARA) (PDF)
  • DPC: Michael Popham & Jenny Mitcham (DPC) (PDF)  
9:50 a.m. Break
10:05 a.m. Cloud Data and Researchers
  • Sanborn Maps: Jaime Mears & Rachel Trent (LOC) (PDF)  
  • Newspaper Navigator: Ben Lee (LOC Innovator-in-Residence) & Chris Adams (LOC) (PDF)  
10:00 a.m. Predictions Summaries
11:30 Close-Out Day 2
Noon End

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