cloudy culture cloud-like services to improve the preservation of digital cultural heritage lee...

cloudy culture cloud-like services to improve the

preservation of digital cultural heritage

• Lee Hibberd• National Library of Scotland• L.Hibberd@NLS.UK

current challenges“The National Library of Scotland will collect, preserve and make

available a range of materials that capture Scotland’s memory and contribution to world knowledge”

•Preserving Scotland’s digital culture•Need to cheaply store a 3rd copy of data•More data same amount of staff•Computational power and read/write speed for preservation actions. e.g. changing image format, health checks•Lack of case studies of cloud use does not make decisions clearer

why EUDAT?• Ideal services, storage capacity and computational power• Test the potential of the cloud for free• We will keep a 3rd copy of data with health checks (a milestone for

the Library!)• Exchange knowledge with EPCC – learn new tricks and tools

future impact• Findings freely and openly published• Interest to other cultural and memory institutions• Cuts across domains - digital archivists, curators and those involved

in digital preservation• Tools developed and shared• Can EUDAT assist in the preservation of European Digital Cultural

Heritage?

“The key to success is to use existing e-Infrastructures for research and academia..which will make digital cultural heritage accessible and usable long term”

(2014 Digital Cultural Heritage Roadmap for Preservation, Antonella Fresa)