Tools for Preserving Distributed Collections, Session #4
NDIIPP Annual Meeting
July 9, 2008
10:30 a.m.

Presenters:  Bryan Beecher (ICPSR), Justin Littman (LC), Robert McDonald (SDSC), Sangchul Song (UMIACS), Terry Moore (University of Tennessee), Santiago de Ledesma (ACCRE, Vanderbilt). 

Attendees:  36 (full room!)

Overview:
- Chronopolis project status report
- Discussion of transfer methodologies (ICPSR – Client, as well as the “Bag It” methodology) 
- description of ACE (Auditing Control Environment) 
- discussion of FACIT (federated Archive Cyberinfrastructure Testbed), with example of NGDA
- Discussion of L-Store, storage virtualization service 

Action Items:
- To address the key preservation storage problem, and how to help the “handoff” process work over the long-term?
- General discussion seemed to indicate it would be a combination of social and technological solutions