Micah Altman
Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Harvard University
Jonathan Crabtree
Assistant Director, Odum Institute
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The archival community has largely recognized that a geographically—and organizationally—distributed approach is necessary to minimize long-term risks to digital materials. The SAFE-Archive system is an open source system designed to form an overlay network on top of a peer-to-peer replication network, to support provisioning, monitoring, and TRAC-based auditing. This provides the reliability of a top-down replication system with the resilience of a peer-to-peer model. The current version of the SAFE-Archive system, to be released in March 2011, enables memory institutions and preservation collaboratives to formalize their replication policies and inter-archival replication commitments; represent these in machine-readable form; and to continuously audit any set of public or private LOCKSS systems for compliance. This presentation includes a discussion of SAFE-Archive current capabilities, architecture, and future development plans.
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Handout (MS WORD)
