Abby Adams discusses Hagley’s implementation of Preservica and the ongoing adventure of creating policies and workflows for digital accessions and collections.
2. Hagley Library Collections
• Document the history of American enterprise
• Late 1700s-Present
• Intersection of industry, technology, and society
• Gunpowder, railroads, iron and steel industry, product
packaging, fashion, interior design
• History of the du Pont family and DuPont
• Size of collections:
o Over 34,000 linear feet of manuscripts
o Over 2 million visual material items
o Over 280,000 printed volumes
o Over 6 terrabytes of born digital records
3. E-records@Hagley then...
• Passive collecting of born digital content
• Storage consisted of an 8TB server backed up offsite
by our tech support company (KDI)
• No policies, procedures, guidelines for accepting or
managing them
• No accession record or documentation on transfer
• No link between born digital and analog collections
• File integrity was not checked
• No write blocking
• No disk images
4. E-records@Hagley now!
• Active collecting of born digital content
• Secure digital repository (Preservica)
• Password protected Wordpress site for policies,
workflows, etc.
• Accessions recorded in Archivist's Toolkit (AT)
• Linking digital records to analog in AT
• Checksums before and after transfer
• Write blocking
• Disk images
5. Preservica
• Cloud-based • Key features
• Safety Deposit Box o indexing
(SDB) o searchability
• Tessella, Inc. o file format
• In 10 countries across 4 identification
o file characterization
continents
• Web-based interface
o creates checksums
o migration tools
• Amazon Web Services
• Starts around $20K
