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Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections 2016

September 19-20 2016
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 List (PDF - 85 kb)

Agenda

Monday September 19, 2016

8:30-9:00 Registration, coffee and refreshments
9:00 – 9:10 Opening / Welcome
9:10 – 10:00 Technology Overview @LCPart 1
10:00-10:10 Break
10:10 – 11:00 Technology Overview Part 2: State of Industry
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:15 Community Presentations Part 1
  • David Markowitz, IARPA
  • Michael Hildreth, Notre Dame (DASPOS program for High Energy physics data management (PDF - 23,468 kb)
  • Brian Wheeler, Indiana University Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative (PDF - 291 kb)
Group Discussion and Feedback
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch time presentation
1:15 – 2:15 Technical Presentations – Managing Objects Within Storage - Moderated by Carl Watts
2:15 - 2:30 Break
2:30 - 3:30

Technical Presentations – Storage Research

  • Andy Warfield , University of British Columbia
  • Peter Kazansky, University of Southampton (PDF - 3,916 kb)
  • Karin Strauss and Luis Ceze, University of Washington/Microsoft research (PDF - 6,144 kb)
  • Fenella France, Preservation Research and Testing Division, Library of Congress (PDF - 2,173 kb)
3:30 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:45 Community Presentations – Part 2
  • Sean Goodison, Police Executive Research Forum
  • John Gonzalez, Internet Archive (PDF - 14,500 kb)
  • Simson Garfinkel, NIST
  • Kestutis Patiejunas and Sam Merat, Facebook (PDF - 1,666 kb)
Group Discussion and Feedback
4:45-5:00 David Rosenthal, Stanford University (PDF - 342 kb) NOTES
5:00 Close-out Day 1

Day 2, September 20, 2016

8:30 – 9:00 Registration and coffee
9:00 – 9:05 Review Day 1
9:05-10:00 Alternative Media and the Future
Group Discussion and Feedback
10:00-10:10 Break
10:10-10:30 Technical Presentations
10:30-11:45 Look back/Future predictions of Storage:
  • A look back at previous predictions
  • Predictions for 2017
  • Predictions for 2018-2021
  • Group Discussion and Feedback
11:45-12:30 Wrap-up / Close-out

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