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Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections

March 27-28, 2023

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 27, 2023

 
9:00 a.m. Opening / Welcome
  • John Rutledge, Deputy Chief Information Officer Library of Congress
9:15 a.m. Technology Overview: Part 1
  • LOC Storage Architecture: Carl Watts (LOC) (PDF)
  • LOC Tech Refresh: Daniel Beckman, Ana Arostegui, Chris Barr   (LOC) (Tech Refresh PDF) (Preservation PDF)
  • LOC Digital Strategy: Natalie Buda Smith (LOC) (PDF)
10:30 a.m. Storage Industry Technology: Part 1
  • Media Overview & Projections: Georg Lauhoff (IBM)  (PDF)
  • Disk Trends: Manuel Offenberg (Seagate) (PDF) 
  • Challenges of Preserving Enterprise Data: John Monroe (PDF with speaker notes)
11:15 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. Community Presentations: Part 1
  • Storage Architecture & Challenges for Long-Term Storage: Frank Indiviglio (NOAA)  (PDF)
  • Digital Preservation & Curation Systems Report: Oya Rieger (PDF)
12:15 p.m. Lunch time Activity: Predictions for the Future: 2030, 2040, 2050
1:15 p.m. Storage Industry Technology: Part 2
  • AI & Preservation: Greg Ritter (Amazon) (PDF)
  • HDD Storage: Paul Peck (Western Digital)  (PDF)
  • Long-term Storage Systems & Use of Tech in the Future: Aaron Ogus (Microsoft) (PDF)
  • Large-scale Storage: Fred Moore (Horison) (PDF)
  • Tape Media Update: Chris Kehoe (FujiFilm) (PDF)
2:15 p.m. Break
2:30 p.m. Community Presentations: Part 2
  • Storage Intermediaries: Helen Hockx-Yu (Notre Dame) (PDF)
  • Digital Preservation Challenges: Scanning for more than fixity Eric Lopatin (California Digital Library) (PDF)
3:30 p.m. Storage Services: Part 1
  • Wasabi: David Boland (Wasabi) (PDF)
  • Offsite Data Storage: David Harris (Iron Mountain) (PDF)
  • Internet Archive: Jonah Edwards (Internet Archive) (PDF)
  • Storage Challenges: Andrew Diamond & Flavia Ruffner (AP Trust) (PDF)
4:30 p.m. Community Presentations: Part 3
  • MDPI Wrap Up: Brian Wheeler (Indiana Univ.) (PDF)
  • Warner Bros. Current Storage Architecture & Plans for the Future: Francis Badzey (Warner Bros) (PDF)
  • Shoah Foundation & Azure Storage Blob: Sam Gustman (USC) (PDF)
  • Web Archive Data Processing: Karl Stringer (MirrorWeb) & Grace Bicho (LOC) (PDF)
5:15 p.m. Close-Out Day 1

Day 2 – Tuesday March 28, 2023

9:00 a.m. Day 1 Recap
9:15 a.m. Community Presentations: Part 4
  • Project Mycelium: Glenn Heinle (KeeperTechnology) & Nathan Tallman (Penn State Univ) (PDF)
  • Explorations in Very Long-term Archiving: Laura Welcher  (PDF)
  • Project Silica: Ioan Stefanovici (Microsoft) (PDF)
  • LOC Digital Collections Repository: Daniel Krech & Mark Cooper (LOC) (PDF)
10:15 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Alternative Media and the Future
  • MediaFlux: Robert Murphy (Arcitecta) (PDF)
  • Optical Data Transfer: Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe (DTU) (PDF)
  • Twist Bioscience: Bill Banyai (Twist Bioscience) (PDF)
11:15 a.m. Predictions Summaries
11:30 Close-Out Day 2
Noon End

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