Recovery of a Digital Image Collection Through the SDSC/UMD/NARA Prototype Persistent Archive

TitleRecovery of a Digital Image Collection Through the SDSC/UMD/NARA Prototype Persistent Archive
Publication TypeReports
Year of Publication2003
AuthorsSmorul M, JaJa JF, McCall F, Brown S F, Moore R, Marciano R, Chen S-Y, Lopez R, Chadduck R
Date Published2003/11/25/
InstitutionInstititue for Advanced Computer Studies, Univ of Maryland, College Park
KeywordsTechnical Report
Abstract

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the University of Maryland, and theNational Archives and Records Administration (NARA) are collaborating on
building a pilot persistent archive using and extending data grid and digital
library technologies. The current prototype consists of node servers at SDSC,
University of Maryland, and NARA, connected through the Storage Request Broker
(SRB) data grid middleware, and currently holds several terabytes of NARA
selected collections. In particular, a historically important image collection
that was on the verge of becoming inaccessible was fully restored and ingested
into our pilot system. In this report, we describe the methodology behind our
approach to fully restore this image collection and the process used to ingest
it into the prototype persistent archive.
(UMIACS-TR-2003-105)
URLhttp://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/1321