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Re: [ARSCLIST] Network storage best practices
Kevin -
Your specific technical concerns are a bit beyond my knowledge and
expertise, but I'll bet there are those on this list who can address them.
I do believe Richard Hess's recommendation to form a partnership with your
existing IT department is a wise one. You are also wise to fully inform
yourself prior to discussions with them - it's easy to get led along the
path that IT wants to pursue just by virtue of not fully understanding what
is involved. If you can form a good cooperative working relationship with
IT, you will have a much easier time of it.
Russ
At 06:01 AM 2/16/2006, you wrote:
Dear Russ Hamm,
>> You said, "the necessity to adhere to high standards for data
integrity... My belief is that >>organizations have turned over much too
much power to IT departments - just because no one else >>understands the
technology. IT too often tells organizational management what they have
to do >>rather than the other way around."
You capture perfectly my concern. It is those "high standards for data
integrity" that I am trying to identify best practices for so that I can
steer the conversation with our IT staff a little better than I am
presently able to.
I am confident we have a good backup plan, S-DLT copies separated
geographically (although the archival data is not treated any differently
than the corporate data), a high quality server infrastucture with clean
power and fire suppression. But, it is what I don't know, how to confirm
the integrity of data through all steps of ingest, preservation and
access, that I am most concerned about.
OAIS is a great "high level" approach which we are looking into but, it is
not meant to address technical issues on the level that I am trying to.
Thanks again everyone.
Kevin
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Russ Hamm
Ed Tech Specialist
National School District (http://nsd.us)
San Diego County, California
tel. (619) 336-7752
FAX (619) 336-7551